Facilitation Work
As a participatory artist, I have facilitated workshops as part of my university degree. I have worked with all ages and abilities. The participant’s well-being and working with their needs and interests is a priority of my work, and working alongside organisations to understand what they want from me as an artist. This has ranged from creating a wall mural in a school to working alongside participants in a residential home to create an activity book later used by those who couldn't join.
Artis Community: Possitivitree- 2022
Working alongside two other creative practitioner students and Artis Community, in my first year of studying Creative and Therapeutic arts, we created a pre-recorded video for the public which I share how to create a tree for a window with materials found at home, as this was during Covid-19. The activity included participants using fine motor skills and thinking of ways to positively impact themselves by writing memories or lyrics inside the folded leaves.
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Click the video below to watch the tutorial.
Crafty Webbook: 2021-22
This project run online via Teams during Covid-19, which I worked alongside older adults in their residential care home. As part of my 2nd year placement at university, for 8 weeks with 1 session a week, I offered a different skill each week that the participants requested to learn, during the weeks, participants decided that online was to difficult for them which left only one participant left. I decided that instead of the webbook being a photography collection, I changed it to an activity workbook that can easily be printed out at the home for those who was unable to participate.
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Check the flipbook out below.
Llandough hospital- What's on the Telly? Is it the real deal?- 2022
What’s on the Telly? Is it the real deal? Was a piece I made working alongside patients who were part of the Mental Health Services for Older Adults at University Hospital Llandough. Patients shared that they enjoyed nature TV programs and the changes of seasons, which I then responded to by showing the difference between the actual world and the world presented on television through a visual representation of each season.
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To create this piece, I used photographs and collaged them in photoshop, and created the TVs digitally using various softwares.
Meeting Me, Meeting the world- 2023
Prior to working with the primary school, I planned for the project to be based on self-confidence and building the participant’s self-esteem, but as I worked alongside the staff, we decided to paint inside a lodge to create a space for the participants and staff to read stories in a welcoming and calming space for the students. Building up to the mural, participants created self-esteem-building work, like positive postcards, and created work that would be added to the lodge, like blow art hedgehogs and tissue paper enchanted animals.
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The staff wanted the lodge to have an enchanted forest full of colour to bring life to the space. Collaboratively, we decided that the students would design this enchanted forest themselves. Combining the student’s drawings into one, I painted their designs on the wall, and the students painted the mural themselves with a helping hand from me.
Staff shared that this project was successful and an innovative way to get the students involved and they felt the students celebrated their work which is something they tend not to do.
