Community Art
Community Art Projects
What I find with many art projects is that everyone is on a level playing field - they're all novices and work together and learn. These projects get people to meet and come up with a beautiful solution to a challenge! You can see a range of activities below.Teaching in the Community: A History
Manchester Mega Mela artist since 2016
Longton Library Sense Fest 2018
Burnley Canal Festival and Morecambe by the Sea Festivals in 2018: Pebble Mosaics
John Cross CE Primary School 300 years Mural, Bilsborrow, Lancashire 2018
New Longton All Saints School 150 years commemorative mural 2017
Lead Artist and Project Coordinator: Art for Recovery 2016- 2017
Managed experiential art sessions for clients and family coping with eating disorders at S.E.E.D. The butterfly symbolises recovery, whilst mosaics represent fragmented parts becoming the whole. The new mosaic panels replaced aging mosaics at a sensory garden site for Galloways Society for the Blind, Penwortham.
Action Factory Community Arts 2015-17
Lead Artist: Designed and led mosaic memory Garden with care home residents in Accrington.
Lead Artist: Designed and led mosaic memory Garden with care home residents in Accrington.
Mosaic Artist: Created mosaic stepping stone designs for Victoria Field, near Wigan (below).
Mosaic Sessions for Community Living Room, Blackburn.
Project Coordinator and support Artist: Creative Hands Foundation, Manchester 2015-16
Aided and coordinated creative heritage and cultural workshops for Black History Month
Lancaster Co-housing Community Mosaic 2015
Lead Artist: Community drawings commissioned into a mosaic mural for Accent Housing 2015
Lancashire BME Network 2012- 2014
Lead Artist for a range of arts.
Below: Memories of home expressed in a Yaadein textile hanging
Lead Artist for a range of arts.
Below: Memories of home expressed in a Yaadein textile hanging
Brockholes and Heysham Nature Reserves Oct 2011 in mosaics, jewellery, textiles, bath bombs, sculptures and recycled crafts
Lead Artist: Blackburn Integrated Community Engagement Partnership January 2013-15 with Mosaic murals and mixed art sessions.
Lead Artist: Sensory Garden Mosaic Welcome Sign, Your Housing Group, Preston, January 2015
Lead Artist: ‘Life after Stroke’ Mosaic Murals Stroke Association Blackpool, Blackburn 2014- 2015
Lead Artist: World War One Mosaics St. Matthews School, Preston 2014
Enjoy Learning, Bolton 2014: Five and ten week courses in mosaics
Collaboration with Nerissa Cargill-Thompson for Bolton at Home: Smart Materials Project using glow in the dark mosaics on butterflies, 2014
Artist in Residence: St Teresa’s School’s Out Holiday Club 2013-14
Lead Artist: Frank Hornby Memorial Mosaic, Maghull 2012 with Deyes High School and U3A
Jewellery sessions: Bolton College 2013
Lead Artist: Frank Hornby Memorial Mosaic, Maghull 2012 with Deyes High School and U3A
Jewellery sessions: Bolton College 2013
Lead Artist: Memorial Floor Mosaic Fishwick Bottoms Nature Reserve 2012: Characterised the informal style of children's drawings of commemorative dates for Pendle Witches, Preston Guild, Olympics, and Queen’s Jubilee into an outdoor mural in the park
Mosaic sessions: Darwen Over 50s Group 2012
Lead Artist: Cartwheel Arts Darnhill ‘Gold’ Festival Sensory Garden Mosaic Bury, May-July 2012. Led a 16-panel mosaic project celebrating 50 years of the Darnhill Community
Some of 16 Panels in the Darnhill Festival Golden Anniversary Sensory Garden mosaics
Lead Artist: Lancaster Lane School Mosaic, Leyland 2011
