©2009 Karen Logan
Karen Logan is a visual artist who studied textiles at Goldsmiths College. Using familiar materials such as cloth, textile, wallpaper and apples she explores various concerns, especially temporality, transience, shifting meanings and the possibility of erasure. Appropriately for an artist interested in time and memory, she learnt many of the techniques she still uses from her female relatives and practiced them at home during her childhood.
Logan’s research draws on diverse sources, from historical and contemporary textile practice, visual art and photography, notions of gendered space, a cultural history of walking and landscape, and ideas of collective and personal histories.
Workshops
Karen has worked as a visual artist in education for well over a decade and has a broad experience engaging children and adults of all ages, from primary through to older groups. She devises and delivers a range of creative, cross-curricular workshops tailored to each classes/organisations individual needs and where appropriate brings unfamiliar materials and techniques into the sessions. Karen’s workshops are original, experimental, innovative and above all enjoyable. She can also provide INSET sessions and lead gallery visits for schools.
Karen has a current enhanced CRB check and is happy to provide information if you wish to do your own check. She has Public Liability Insurance.
Teacher and pupil feedback:
• “Thanks so much for sharing your creative talents with my class, it was clear that the children enjoyed every minute. Your enthusiasm and energy was infectious! The work that the children produced is fantastic” Kelly, Y4 teacher, Edmonton
• “We have been looking at artists wonderful work and that artists don’t just need to be doing their art on paper and that they can be doing it anywhere they like” Anoushka, Y4, Newham
These pupils were inspired to write a poem after one of Karen’s projects, it always makes her smile!
“You have been so cool
Teaching us art at school
We will miss you lots and lots
This creative time will never be forgot
You made this term so fun
Most of the things we have never done
You are as bright as the sun
You are as sweet as a chocolate bun”
Tia and Ilksen, Y4, Edmonton
Contact
kallogan@hotmail.com
07841 870441
Logan’s research draws on diverse sources, from historical and contemporary textile practice, visual art and photography, notions of gendered space, a cultural history of walking and landscape, and ideas of collective and personal histories.
Workshops
Karen has worked as a visual artist in education for well over a decade and has a broad experience engaging children and adults of all ages, from primary through to older groups. She devises and delivers a range of creative, cross-curricular workshops tailored to each classes/organisations individual needs and where appropriate brings unfamiliar materials and techniques into the sessions. Karen’s workshops are original, experimental, innovative and above all enjoyable. She can also provide INSET sessions and lead gallery visits for schools.
Karen has a current enhanced CRB check and is happy to provide information if you wish to do your own check. She has Public Liability Insurance.
Teacher and pupil feedback:
• “Thanks so much for sharing your creative talents with my class, it was clear that the children enjoyed every minute. Your enthusiasm and energy was infectious! The work that the children produced is fantastic” Kelly, Y4 teacher, Edmonton
• “We have been looking at artists wonderful work and that artists don’t just need to be doing their art on paper and that they can be doing it anywhere they like” Anoushka, Y4, Newham
These pupils were inspired to write a poem after one of Karen’s projects, it always makes her smile!
“You have been so cool
Teaching us art at school
We will miss you lots and lots
This creative time will never be forgot
You made this term so fun
Most of the things we have never done
You are as bright as the sun
You are as sweet as a chocolate bun”
Tia and Ilksen, Y4, Edmonton
Contact
kallogan@hotmail.com
07841 870441