The Drumchapel Access Project, supported by Forestry CommissionScotland, Scottish Natural Heritage and Glasgow City Council is aimed at involving the community while promoting use of local greenspace in the area and raising awareness of the natural beauty of the area.
Cyanotype is a traditional printing process first made popular in the 19th Century by photographer Anna Atkins. This striking, prussian blue photogram series were printed from items found on a walk around the Drumchapel woods with Alliance Scotland and adults affected by mental health issues.
Using a creative process to encourage participants to look at their surroundings in a different context and to take the time to enjoy the process.
Growing up wild is an outdoor and creative learning initiative taking children with additional support needs out of the classroom and into nature. Children are supported to learn skills, build relationships and engage in nature in a freeform and child lead way to support development and well being. They are also supported to learn filmmaking skills to document their experiences.
The British Art Show provides a vital overview of the most exciting contemporary art produced in the UK. Organised by Hayward Touring, this multi-venue exhibition is presented every five years in four different cities across the country.
Each city had a city co-ordinator who was responsible for co-ordinating a programme of engagement with audiences that would never normally visit a contemporary art exhibition.
I worked with prisoners at HMP Shotts, Elderly people with Dementia, LGBT Youth and Art students on various projects.
The most successful of these was working with Impact Arts and their Craft Cafe groups from Glasgow and Edinburgh. We made work in response to Ryan Ganders work and brought them to visit the exhibition at Inverleith house to challenge their perceptions of contemporary art.
Make Your Way was a project encouraging people in the Clyde and Avon Valley to walk and cycle more whilst exploring the rich heritage of their local area. Focussing on the communities of Carluke, Glassford, Lanark, Larkhall and Stonehouse, the project included multiple hands-on ways for people to get involved in their local landscape, history and favourite walking and cycling routes.
To kickstart the project, local meetings were programmed for each community in September and October. They were a chance for people to speak to the Make Your Way team about their local area including favourite routes and features that will feed into future route planning. There were then a number of opportunities to get involved with the project through a series of guided walks, creative workshops, Citizen Journalism activities and volunteering roles.
I was project manager for the Citizen Journalism component of the project that accompanied and documented the activities of the wider project.
North East West South was a long term arts and heritage project engaging with older people from across Scotland. Making work inspired by local heritage and exhibiting this work at The Engine Shed in Stirling in November. I was responsible for the coordination and delivery of this project as well as curation of the exhibition and production of learning materials. This project was delivered in partnership with Impact Arts, Cairn Housing Association and funded by Heritage Lottery Fund.
The aim of STRIKE was to elevate the work of young designers from South East London in a high end fashion display. Building strong partner relationships, networking within the fashion industry and securing professional industry support allowed me to manage a high quality fashion show on a tight budget. Respected designer Adam Entwistle provided mentoring for the young designers and production was supported by London Fashion week veteran John Walford. Big brand sponsorship from Propercorn and Vitacoco and Blow Presents allowed STRIKE to attract industry recognition . Press coverage was achieved from local, national and transatlantic media channels including London Live,
Blow Presents and Talent House. Director of fashion PR giant Blow, Michael Salac provided aftercare for par- ticipants, connecting them with opportunites and internships within his organisation .
Photographs credit: Laura Frood
I have been taking photographs for over 10 years and consider myself an accomplished photographer in both digital and analogue disciplines with the ability to lead workshops in either.
This collection of images ranges from personal photography projects and professional briefs.
I have a particular passion for emotionally driven photography, those images that tell a story and reference nostalgia.
Programme Manager for the Ayrshire hub established through the Time to Shine Youth Arts Strategy for Scotland. The project ran for two years, offering a multi art form programme of over 50 projects engaging over 5000 young people in creative activity.
Our goal was to increase youth participation in creative activities by providing free, accessible, high quality arts activities for people aged 0-25.
The aims of the project where to:
Increase Arts opportunities for young people aged 11 - 19 by 10%, including access to more opportunities for ages 0 -25 years
Develop a regional infrastructure for Arts
Establish sustainable infrastructure to give young people a voice and support to make decisions
Improve collaboration between organisations and artists
Raise profile of the Arts for the region's young people
Implement and sustain a digital media platform
Working with artist Linder Sterling this was a durational collaborative performance piece that took place at Caledonia Hall in the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh.
Working with community dance groups to choreograph a 12 hour performance that represented the artists vision.
A video of the performance can be found here
Photographs credit: Laura Frood
We worked with community groups on a photography project to develop artistic skills while raising awareness of the natural beauty of the area. These photographs where taken by participants from G15 youth group.
This is part of the Forestry Commission Scotland and Scottish Natural Heritage’s Drumchapel Access Project, supported by Glasgow City Council, which is aimed at involving the community while promoting use of local greenspace in the area.
Photographs credit: Tai, Taylor, Anna (G15 Youth Project)
This is the result of a long term engagement with a group of girls from a care background referred by North Ayrshire Throughcare.
The aim of the project is to elevate the voices of young people from care and discuss issues relevant to their experiences through creative enterprising activity.
The group were responsible fore coming up with the branding 'Young not Dumb' and through a series of workshops the girls learned the skills to design and make their own products which will be later sold at a showcase event for the project.
Report it Forward is an initiative started by a group of people representative of a wide demographic from young people, creative practitioners, community builders and academics. The belief is that we can use Citizen Journalism to empower people to share stories that offer a hyper-local community driven alternative to mainstream media.
Using easy to accomplish equipment and software new reporters are equipped with the skills and confidence to create instantaneous digital stories to share on social media and/or dedicated platforms.
Projects so far have included working with North Ayrshire Alcohol and drug partnership, North Ayrshire Council and Clyde and Avon Valley Landscape partnership. North Ayrshire ADP instructed us to deliver a programme of digital inclusion workshops with service users to empower them with the skills and confidence to make videos relating to their experiences. These videos will be used to provide a library of support for other people affected by similar issues.
Working with children in Drumchapel primary schools creating signs for Drumchapel Woods. The pupils were introduced to a range of printmaking techniques, all with a nature and active travel theme.
This is part of the Forestry Commission Scotland and Scottish Natural Heritage’s Drumchapel Access Project, supported by Glasgow City Council, which is aimed at involving the community while promoting use of local greenspace in the area.
As well as working with schools on signage, we worked with community groups on a photography project to develop artistic skills while raising awareness of the natural beauty of the area.
