Recent experience of facilitating, including any specific techniques or approaches worked with:
As an artist, researcher and educator I facilitate workshops in art and arts education, for artists, teachers, students and children. I use a dialogic and enquiry based approach, valuing open-ended, critically reflective and collaborative strategies. I consult the participants about the focus of their own enquiries, negotiating the content of sessions, building on individual experience and valuing the expertise in the group. I place emphasis on developing creative environments of enquiry to support individual creativity. I am interested in the generation of ideas through possibility thinking, as a co-researcher and developing communities of practice as mutual support networks.
Experience of supporting or working with the relationship between creative practice and teaching.
In my personal and professional practice, I have been able to reflect continuously and critically on my own art practice in relation to contemporary art practice, research and pedagogy. I am committed to trying out new ideas, taking risks in a safe environment in order to explore new challenges and embrace change. I hope to be able hold the tension between freedom and control, knowledge and uncertainty, meanwhile providing support and understanding. I am particularly interested in the relationship between experiential learning and visual culture in understanding contemporary art practice. I am the Director of 5×5x5=creativity.
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