Recent experience of facilitating, including any specific techniques or approaches worked with:
Since September 2008, I have been designing and teaching the Art Psychotherapy module with the Head of Art Education and the Course Leader for the Creative Therapies in Education degree course at the University of Wales. Since 2003, I have been a lead artist and mentor on the 5×5x5=creativity research project, exploring creative responses in pre-school children to develop their individuated learning skills through artist inspired instigations. I have also been a founder member of the AND (Artists’ Network Development).
Experience of supporting or working with the relationship between creative practice and teaching.
In my work as a lecturer on the BA Hons in Creative Therapies in Education, I am working with undergraduates who will have futures in the educational establishment, to develop their role as creative practitioners. The objective is to work holistically, looking at the whole person in the creative context; through exploration of working artistic practice and an understanding of what each person can bring to a system of creative learning. As an artist on the 5×5x5=creativity research project, I have been working closely in partnership with an educationalist in a specialist school for learning disabilities. Through reflective practice, we have initiated learning situations through art practice using a selection of materials and the extremely diverse abilities of the pupils