Artist Run Workshops in Schools
Mask making, Puppetry, Collage, Mosaics, Found objects, Environmental art, Kite making.
Various workshops with a strong emphasis on
recycling and reusing materials.
Mosaic: Panels,seating and sculptures using mirror, crockery, tiles and buttons
Shoe sculptures: Transforming actual shoes or plimsoles by adorning them with various recycled materials
Boxes: Create your own shrine using old shoeboxes, jewellery boxes etc. The ordinary turns extraordinary
Life size collages using global cultural icons/decoration pattern and symbols, shapes from around the world. Silkscreen printing using basic hand made stencils onto the textiles.
Glass Painting directly onto glass – drinking or various vessels.
Workshop 4 aims to explore and celebrate living traditions of Asian Medicine
Multimedia, in two and three dimensions for all ages from early years to sixth form:
Sense of place/ Location based project useing collage, printing techniques. Collage projects, using papers, paint, simple printmaking, photography, moulding, casting and assemblage.
After graduation Brenda took up the post of Artists and Sculpture in Residence at the museum of Kent Life. Here she provided hundreds of visiting schools with sculpture workshops.
Lightbox Workshop – Each group selects the colours for its lightbox using blackout paint, students create a picture that is then mounted in front of coloured lights. The box is then switched on to reveal a coloured picture.
(Up to 15 children at any one time)
Lightshow talk – Focuses on light & colour with working examples of natural & hand-made materials including an explanation of how they work and how they can be used in art.
(Up to 50 children 1 adult per 10 children).
Mask Making – A safe & quick method of casting a face using brown paper swatches. These are then used as armatures for the masks. The masks when finished can represent any theme, historical, anthropological or zoological etc
Site Specific or environmental art – A selection of sites is allocated to each student group they survey their sites with a check list and a set of tasks. The ideas are then represented by a variety of media and materials and can be performed
Creative Language Skills: Drawing, Film making & Story telling.
Collage – Transforming into different characters
Murals stimulated by popular culture using pop music and accompanying images and discussion with the pupils on their idols and their own identity
Textiles: Tufted rug making using a simple technique – Fabric Collages –
Fabric People – Pupils can create a wool figure using plaiting techniques, then dress them.
Glass Panels: Pupils can try fusing and slumping techniques.
Glass Mosaics: Using scraps and recycled glass.
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