Have led workshops with children and adults in schools, galleries and community centres since 1994. Most recent CRB check in 2009 (enhanced disclosure). I have Public Liability Insurance.

2009
Signs, Symbols, Spaces and Homemade Mapping, The Building Exploratory, in partnership with Hackney Museum, London. Workshops for children inspired by the museums exhibits, exploring visual communication, drawing and model making.
Habitat Tales and Rocks and Soils, A New Direction, London. In partnership with Larmenier and Sacred Heart Catholic School we explored the curriculum topic of Habitats, motivating and engaging a class of Year 4 pupils in science using creative approaches. In partnership with Sheringham Junior School we delivered the curriculum topic of Rocks and Soils to three Year 3 classes using the same methodology.
Experimental Drawing, Foundling Museum, London. A day of ideas and creative challenges for A Level students exploring unfamiliar ways of drawing and mark making rooted in music and movement.
Muddy Huts and Mad Tales, The Building Exploratory in partnership with [SPACE]. Children aged 5+ explored Godfried Donkor’s exhibition ‘Story Of A London Township’ and built their own huts in response. Illuminating our huts with glow sticks we dimmed the lights in the gallery and read Ghanaian stories, imagining the characters inhabiting our township.
Celebrating Me, Apples & Snakes/A New Direction. Celebrating Me in Brookfield House School encouraged children to think about and share their perceptions of themselves and their role in different groups within school and society. The two groups worked with a performance poet and explored visual art in 3D.

2008
Aqua Hackney, The Building Exploratory, London. Summer workshops exploring water, encouraging awareness of how we use this precious resource.
Tiny Tate, Tate Britain. Collage activity for under 5’s inspired by Victor Passmore, part of a day-long family festival.
Ebbsfleet Landmark Link Project, Kent. One of 5 creative practitioners working in 5 secondary schools on this community engagement programme for ELP. Encouraging an appreciation and understanding of site-specific artwork in relation to internationally known artists proposals for a 50m high sculpture in the Ebbsfleet Valley.
Fellowship Art Challenge Exhibition & Fellowship Symphony, Waltham Forests Arts & Events Team. Worked with 9 local schools and Leyton Orient FC to create visual artwork for Fellowship.
Creative Partnerships, London North. Varied projects with teachers and primary school pupils exploring creative learning, speaking, listening and self-expression.
Foundling Museum, London. Workshop on image and identity with A level students exploring shadow and silhouette.
VerbalEyes: finding a voice through art, Tate Britain, London. Project concerned with literacy in its broadest context. Worked with two Year 3 classes in a Newham primary school and led Insets for teachers and school visits in the gallery. Outcomes from VerbalEyes were exhibited and performed in Tate.

2007
Making Waves, Creative Partnerships London North. A project involving 20 schools and artists creating a climate in which sustainable and creative change can happen. From September 07 to March 08 I will be working with St Michael's School in Wood Green.
Shaping Places, Ocean New Deal, The Building Exploratory, The Big Draw, London. Regeneration in the Ocean Estate, Stepney provided the starting point for this youth and community project. Culminated in a community day for the Big Draw launch on 30th September.
Spider Weaver, The Building Exploratory. This Ghanaian legend about the origin of Kente cloth inspired us to explore patterns in spider's webs.
Fellowship 2012 Art Exhibition for Young People, Waltham Forests Arts and Events Team. Developed ideas with four local schools and delivered a variety of projects for summer exhibition.
Sell Yourself! PEER in partnership with The Building Exploratory, London. Developed and ran workshops for local schools and community groups, inspired by the SHOP LOCAL project by Bob & Roberta Smith located in various sites around Shoreditch.
VerbalEyes: finding a voice through art, Tate Britain, London. This fantastic project focused on literacy in its broadest context. Working in Newham primary schools I led whole day INSETS and school visits in Tate Britain. In collaboration with teachers and Tate I devised, planned and delivered a two-week tailor made art project in school. Outcomes from VerbalEyes were exhibited and performed in Tate Britain.

2006
Victorians and Our Stories: Sutton House, London. After school clubs exploring Victorian childhood and Punch & Judy puppets and history, family heritage and identity in this National Trust property.
Outside In! Summer workshops at The Building Exploratory. Groups of children built a giant tent inside the exploratory. Inspired by tipis, yurts and summer in the city we used withy sculpture, screen-printed cloth, weaving and clay work to make our tent. The huge grins on every child's face as they crawled inside the tent reflected the success of this project.
Deptford Stories: Memory Maps. Primary school pupils used memories and stories gathered during oral history interviews to inspire their maps to celebrate the history of the Albany Community Centre and Theatre.
Tallest Totem Pole (for young people) and Zig Zag Zoom inspired by William Turnbull's sculpture and Clay Poke inspired by Rebecca Warren's sculpture (Under 5's) Tate Britain.
Space House, The Building Exploratory. A place to live far from Earth.
Deep Time in Lyme; Lyme Regis Fossil Festival 2006. The Jurassic Coast in Dorset has inspired a huge education event for the 2006 Fossil Festival. Schools are linked on an urban/rural basis and I worked with Southwell Primary in Ealing. Portland stone provided our link to Dorset; used to dramatic effect in St Paul's. The children photographed the Cathedral, a selection of these photographs were exhibited at the festival.
Memory and Landscape, October Gallery, London. With mainstream and special needs pupils we explored the themes and techniques used by Aboriginal artists to create large dot filled canvases.
Cloth of Gold - Screen Printing in Education, freelance print artist. Various projects in London 2002-2006.

2005
Stripe Delight, Tate Britain. Workshops for children inspired by Jim Lambie's taped floor in the Turner Prize exhibition.
A-Z of Drawing (for the Big Draw), Twenty-Four Hours in Ridley Road, and A Block of Summer, family workshops at The Building Exploratory.
Living City, The Building Exploratory in partnership with The Science Museum. Devised and ran a series of workshops looking at issues of recycling, sustainable buildings and community. A visit to The Hackney Empire provided our initial inspiration. Children at Berger School in Hackney then made a large cardboard model, which was displayed at the Science Museum during the summer.

2004
Paper Cut, Drawing Room/SPACE, London. Devised and ran a series of workshops using the Hew Locke/Diana Cooper show at the Drawing Room. Children from London Fields Primary built a large cardboard installation complete with tunnels and 'room' like structures.
October Gallery. Devised and led a series of workshops for mainstream and special needs groups of children. We studied the painting techniques of Aboriginal artists.
Tate Britain. Worked on the family day event on an activity inspired by Michael Landy's Semi-detached, also ran workshops for children alongside the Art in the Garden exhibition.
Constructive Photography, Tower Hamlets Summer University, London. Model making and photography course for young adults.

2003
Picture Postcards, The Women's Library, London.
Tile Collage/Garden Delights The Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
Wear it with pride! The Women's Library.

2002
Windows of Colour, Victoria & Albert Museum.
Bold Banners, Tower Hamlets Summer University.
Performing Parangoles, Whitechapel Gallery, London.