projects

Out & About 2017
Photograph by Nick Singleton

Karen's experience in education is broad, she engages audiences in creative processes, assisting participants in questioning, exploring, inventing and enjoying visual art. She works with a range of groups including schools, families, young people, adults and community. Karen's current DBS certificate is dated February 2022 and she has Public Liability Insurance.
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QUAD Derby 2022
Everybody Draw - The Big Draw Festival

All-day drop-in drawing event in celebration of The Big Draw Festival. Inspired by QUAD and it's historic Market Place setting, participants created a huge communal drawing, collaborating, responding and working with others drawings in sharing the beauty and wonder of the everyday.









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QUAD Derby 2022
Draw Together, GoldsQUAD

Series of playful drawing workshops for participants aded 50+ exploring line, tone, form, colour and scale.

Timed mark-making with word prompts like - squiggle, circle, dot, zigzag...

Exploring mark-making and tonal qualities

Suggesting form with directional mark-making

Capturing surface qualities with pastel
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QUAD Derby 2021
Online content

Please click for vimeo: Rolling Print


Please click for vimeo: Crisp Packet Mono Print


Two videos created as online content for school and young people's programmes at QUAD Derby. 
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QUAD Derby 2019
Q Club




Fabulous Q Club
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The Hepworth Wakefield
Out & About 2017 

 Misty Brimham Rocks

 Framing our wool drawings 

Using our bodies as sculpture and to tell stories

 This isn't sculpture! (participant comment)

 How has this project made you powerful?

Handmade sketchbooks covered in YSP mud
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The Hepworth Wakefield
Creative Practitioner, 2010-2017    

Clare Woods - The Unquiet Head 

Richard Long - Artist Rooms

Heather and Ivan Morison inspired puppets

Celebrating the Grand Depart
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De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea
Creative Practitioner, 2016
  

Studio and view finder inspired by Fiona Banner's Ha Ha

Icosahedron still life slow geometry

Spinning full stop

Diamonds and Ha Ha 

Musical youth
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Drew Primary School, London
Creative Practitioner, 2014-2016

Year 6
Ice Trap

Year 3 
Tales of Wisdom & Wonder

Year 1
Emily Brown and the Thing

 Year 4
I Was a Rat! or The Scarlet Slippers

 Year 2
One Night, Far From Here

Year 5
The London Eye Mystery
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Agder Folkehøgskole, Søgne, Norway
Creative Practitioner, 2015


 Wrapped figure by Anton

 Colin spray painting

 Connie transforming her sculpture with paint

 Wrapped tin cans

 Max and Anton photographing their work collaboratively

The outdoor setting suited Frida's work
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The Hepworth Wakefield
High Light, 2013


A space to consider sound and mood

 Building with triangles

Light drawing

 Shadow of Emley Moor Transmitting Station (330 meters high!)

 Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Young persons metal and blue light sculpture
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The Hepworth Wakefield
A September To Remember, 2012


Intervention in local cityscape

Mark making with clay slip

Learning navigation skills from walk leader Pete

Creative hub

Until The Far Distance - featuring drawings made by GPS tracking device 
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The Art House, Wakefield
Sites in Sight Artist in Residence, 2012


The shop

Visit to The Hepworth Wakefield

French knit coster

My response to the residency - work in progress

Sharing event at The Art House for the Wakefield Artwalk
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Creative Partnerships, Luton 
Enquiry School, 2010


 Sun print

 Staff INSET

 Making reading room cushions from the children's fabric
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Future Creative, Kent
Landmark Link Programme, 2008


What does 50 meters look like?

Bluewater - pupils ask the public for their opinions

Site for the sculpture

Causing a stir
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