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Flowers made from recycled plastic drink bottles by grade 3s. Every flower is unique: the kids came up with fabulous ideas and were really excited about making design choices and inventing new ways of cutting exotic petals. The flowers were coloured with translucent permanent markers by the kids at Caulfield South Primary. I almost [...]
I am a big fan of the Art created by children around the age of 8 or 9 years old. They are at an age where their drawings are expressive and they have enough skill to realise their ideas without worrying too much about how realistic their drawings are. The kids in each Grade 3 [...]
Way out West is a visual and performing arts program for adults with disabilities. I was hired to run professional development workshops with the awesome lead Arts Workers Fleur Dean and Russ Pirie. I had a ball with these people, the leaders are inspired and the group members are having an arts party every fortnight [...]
Prep to Grade 6 children at Caulfield Grammar explored shadow and the principles of making stencils. Working with Anna Malin, the wonderful Art Teacher at the Wheelers Hill campus we made a shadow puppet theatre from a fridge box and the children performed with their finished puppets.
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I did a complete makeover on a very dilapidated artwork at Merri Creek Primary School. Grade 3 kids cut the recycled plastic feathers and the preps painted new scales on the magical tail. The plastic was collected by the parents. The bird’s eye was made from a broken set of digital scales I had [...]
“I was inside a dragon!!!” said a grade 6 boy in rapturous tone after securing the belly of the beast with gaffer tape. I was invited by Anna Malin an inspiring Art Teacher at Caulfield Grammar to design something spectacular for the Atrium entrance of the Wheelers Hill Campus. After consultation with Grade [...]
We created the Giant Rainbow Lantern for the Big West Festival 2011 Open Studios Program. It was displayed at the Wyndham Cultural Centre during the Weerama Festival 2011. This particular Arts Access group services artists with an intellectual disability. The rainbow design was by one [...]
Arts Access Arts Program participants created inflatable artwork for an Open Day at the community centre we attend in Tarneit. The group facilitates artists with an intellectual disability to create art. I run this group with community artist Jo Davidson.
We were supported by the City of Wyndham to work with inflatable [...]
I worked with a group of international students to create unique paper dresses for a catwalk at the City of Melbourne Lord Mayor’s Welcome. The dresses were inspired by the students experience of moving to a new city. Their fears, excitement and triumphs provided rich source material to express in a 3-d form.
The [...]
I was invited by Pam Thorne from the Burnie Arts Council to run a paper dress making workshop in the lead up to the inaugural ‘Paper on Skin’ competition held at the Burnie Regional Art Gallery in Tasmania. I was invited back to judge the entrant’s work on the night of the parade. Burnie is [...]
