Recent experience of facilitating, including any specific techniques or approaches:
Work as a facilitator includes ‘Making Art in Healthcare Settings’ at Tate Modern as part of ‘The Performing Medicine’ project which provides training to medical students and healthcare practitioners using the performing and visual arts.
I deliver photography and video workshops that enable students to interrogate their individual practice through some of the processes and techniques that I have developed in my own self directed practice - and my experience of facilitating groups and designing and leading participatory projects has become an essential and natural extension of my practice.
I have produced projects in the public realm in a variety of different contexts and this often creates unexpected partnerships. Central to the delivery of any part of a programme or project is the use of lens-based media, namely photography and video. I also use discussion, writing, drawing, installation and the internet as a resource and as a creative tool.
Experience of supporting or working with the relationship between creative practice and teaching:
One of the mainstays of my practice is a track record of working as an artist in education settings, principally schools. I am currently working on a major solo commission that will span three years in two schools. The outcomes and content produced from each facilitation session will be showcased in a series of site-specific exhibitions in East London, an online archive and timeline.
I was part of the Teacher Artist Forum, TAP, a professional development programme for artists and teachers. An action research process which sought to demonstrate that jointly training artists and teachers can provide an exemplary model for preparing a future generation of arts educators.