Workshop facilitation
Alongside my studio practice, I have 15 years experience as a socially engaged participatory artist, facilitating inclusive collaborative workshops for children and young people in sculpture, installation, and animation.
From 2022-24 I co-led sessions at The Hundred Club Afterschool with Dominika Kieruzel. This creative studio space was led by 5-12 year olds, building clay computer games, ladybird credit cards, and making magic postal potions amongst many other brilliant projects. The Hundred Club is a family club, initiated by Ruth Beale and produced by TACO! I was Young Artist Projects Producer at TACO! from 2021-25.
I devised and led a week of family sessions at Young V&A. Underground City took inspiration from the subterranean playset of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on display at Young V&A. Using recycled materials, we made modular sculptures, inspired by what we see and how we play as we move through the city. Once we’d made our model sculptures we explored them together using DIY viewing devices.
I devised and led the family art session Sunday Spot at South London Gallery, where we made large-scale modular structures that children could climb inside. Using cardboard sheets and fabric, families constructed a watery maze of tunnels, tubes corridors and pathways; directing the flow of people as we navigated the space in unusual ways. I also led related workshops for school groups, in which we responded to a Isamu Noguchi sculpture featured in the Dahn Vo exhibition.