Workshops

A couple of images here from two A-Level workshops I ran before the Christmas break working with porcelain and enamel, and the second with metal and mixed media. The arrangement above comes from a series of small scale dioramas I made with the students, dipping found organic forms in porcelain slip and framing them in slab built shadow boxes.

In December I worked with Jenny Walker on a jewellery workshop at Ruthin Craft Centre with 15 A-Level students taking part in the Raising the Bar programme in partnership with the Manchester School of Art. The programme offers selected students access to advanced techniques in applied art and design and engages them with contemporary practitioners. During the day we worked with wire, sheet and mixed media in response to selected objects by interrogating their aesthetic, sensory and thematic qualities and exaggerating and exploiting these in order to create new designs. The finished work by the students will go on exhibition at Ruthin Craft Centre later this year.
My teaching at Lincoln University on BA (Hons) Jewellery and Object has almost come to an end for the academic year, something that seems to have gone awfully quickly. The first year group have fearlessly accepted my brief to explore the idea of "chain" and I'm looking forward to seeing what they come back with when I see them next week.

In the forthcoming year I am running jewellery workshops for adults alongside showcases at Platform Gallery, Clitheroe, on Saturday 25th February, and at Scarborough Museums Trust on Saturday 12th and 26th May in response to their Fears, Foes and Faeries exhibition (but more about that later.)

The last year has certainly given me opportunity to develop my teaching experience and I'm looking forward to taking this further this year alongside a couple of the usual interesting (mad cap) projects. Thanks for following my blog in 2011, here's to the next 365 days.