I have just come to the end of a six week program of family arts activities in my hometown of Preston.

I approached the venues, put the program together and produced all advertising material, including a website www.prestonsummerarts.co.uk. The workshops were delivered at three venues; Brockholes Nature Reserve, Beacon Fell Country Park and Samlesbury (tudor) Hall.

I delivered workshops in

Hand Built Ceramics Weaving

Silk Painting

Screen Printing

Felt Making

Lantern Making

In May I finished a years maternity cover as part time Arts Development Assistant for my local council. My biggest project there was organising a three day schools and family sculpture event at Wyre Estuary Country Park. This involved: contacting and liasing with schools; managing a small team of staff and volunteers; contracting and managing two artists; booking food, music and craft stalls; producing marketing material, promoting the event and managing the budget.

I also organised and promoted an event for the Big Draw and worked as part of a team developing a 1.7M regeneration project- helping to draw up the artist brief and select the design team. For the last three years I have worked freelance in Schools and the community. I have delivered many community arts projects, working with NEET young people, young people in care and minority groups, largely on community festivals.

I have worked with primary, secondary and special needs schools, on projects including; arts and enterprise, exploring ways to make the most of the outdoor curriculum and sensory arts for young people with disabilities. environment for learning, projects centered around specific areas of the

For my most recent school project I spent two weeks with a primary school in a small coastal town. We

explored how the beach could be experimented art, taking with

used as a space for learning and processes and materials to create inspiration and using materials found on the beach. the beach as different

The first summer I was at university I

spent two months in Vietnam teaching English in two orphanages, to children aged 5- 15 and groups of up to 40, as my Vietnamese was poor this usually

My second summer at university and the summer I graduated I managed the arts program for Activate holiday club in Nottingham. I planned and prepared all the activities, including drama and dance and after some delivering them.

involved a lot of singing, role play and arts, craft and dance activities. drawing.I spent most evenings running

instruction managed a small team in

I did a fantastic Applied Arts degree at University- called Craft, sustainable design

and practice, the course gave me a good grounding in ceramics, print, large and choice of materials, production and the life cycle of the product.

small scale metal working and textiles. The course focused on sustainability in the

I was interested in combining my love of colour and pattern with movement and interaction to make work that was unique and that the buyer would feel a personal tiny cog mechanism inside so that when the tab is pulled the legs and wings move. anthrapological labels. connection to. This is the culmination of my third year project, each brooch has a They were sold in individual glass presentation cases, with fictional The fact that my work turned out to be jewellery was incidental really, I was very

interested in automater and kinetic sculpture but they werent suited to the course.