I devise, develop and run workshops in many situations, I have worked extensively in remote and rural communities, schools and colleges and the criminal justice system. I create workshops and scenarios to encourage ambition, creativity and also to challenge those I work with.
Selected workshop areas:
Creative writing and thinking.
Skill sharing - working with traditional skills.
Facilitating creativity and development of ideas.
Research methods - mentorship and brain storming
Sketchbook projects, summer schools and inter-school artistic collaborations.
Kinetic sculpture.
Sculpture from recycled materials.
Steel and aluminium welding (for sculpture).
Social media skills - facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
Working in collaboration with the North Isles landscape Parnership and artist Saoirse Higgins, I am devising and directing a series of skill sharing workshops across the Northern Isles. On Papay we have been working with the local community to build a new section of Caasie coastal defense wall, to prevent further erosion at a vulnerable site along the coast of the island. Using traditional building skills and creating situations where vital skills can be learned and passed on.
Science and art meet on an island….
Collaborating with artist Saoirse Higgins I have co-directed and delivered annual projects with the British Science Association and the Orkney Science Festival. These include shoreline surveys, Glacier monitoring on Iceland, Weather watching and recording and monitoring of migrating seabirds.
Bringing the creativity of an artist to the methods of a scientist, with a hint of nostalgia for an analogue past.
2016 - Shoreline Research Station - British Science Association.
2017 - Papay Probe - Iceland Glacier Project - British Science Association.
