MY CV
Achievements and Experience
COMMUNITY ARTS PRACTITIONER
2010 - present
I have worked as a community arts practitioner since 2010, specialising in all forms of media and more recently puppetry and textile art. I have worked in healthcare, education and community settings, using art to support health and well being. I have a long history of working with those with disabilities and special educational needs.
DIRECTOR
2010 - present
2010 - All Small Things - making and selling miniature objects including wedding favours and objects with poetry
2017 - FEET - Friendship Enabled through Education and Therapy - delivering educational and therapeutic workshops in India
2021 - HOPE - Help, Observe and Protect the Environment - a Blue School focused on marine conservation activities
2022 - The People's Puppet Theatre - delivered three theatre productions including Lambe Lambe, shadow puppetry and Theatre Without Walls
2023 - Loom With A View - spinning and weaving workshops specialising in Saori, Brinkley loom and table top weaving, and spindle-drop and Ashford wheel spinning
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PROJECTS & EXHIBITIONS
2011 - present
2011 - Angels in our Home Town - celebration of community angels depicted through a giant origami angel installation
2020 - Bee Happy - biodiversity and chocolate making enterprise focusing on ecology and bees, Inverclyde
2021 - Makers and Artists exhibition in collaboration with Impact Arts in the Barony, West Kilbride
2021 - Beith Sculpture Trail sculptures and fabric installations from my Save Our Seas series
2021 - Story gatherer for the Isle of Cumbrae for COAST.Scot
2022 - Celebrating Scottish Myths and Legends exhibition in the Barony, West Kilbride
2023 - Clyde Cloud Weavings - Women Create at the Beacon, Greenock
2023 - Heritage Crafts and setting up of the Millport Artists & Makers shop on the Isle of Cumbrae
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