Tricycle theatre - Creative learning Programme

This project was specifically designed to work with children from a travellers community in North London. Children designed and painted a mural to reflect their thoughts on the local area and their community. I assisted Artists Lili Barcroft and Andy D’Cruz at the later stages of the project. 

St. Thomas' - OPU

These mixed media workshops took place every week at the Older Persons Unit at St.Thomas' Hospital. This sessions were designed for the older person and to bring much needed change of scene and activities for patents on the ward. They also added to the work that was being done by the Occupation Therapists. Activities included felt making, drawing and printing. 

Printmaking, drawing and collage

This workshop took place in a care home specialising in supporting people with dementia. We  used a mixture of photographs, drawings and prints to create a collage. Each person chose moments/people in their lives as a basis for this body of work.

Textile collages

At a care home in Barnet I facilitated a short workshop using a mixture of drawing and collage to design a fabric collage using bondaweb to applique fabric shapes onto a backing. The collage designs are personal to each participant.

Olympic collage

Working with GoldDust Arts and Sean Michael. Creating a collage with children from a nursery in Barnet. Over 4 sessions children made props including medals, weights, hockey sticks and an Olympic torch as well  as numbers for their t.shirt and fabric banners. We then showed them footage of Olympic athletes in action and took a series of photographs focusing on emotions and movements in sport ( using obstacle courses and setting up games for them to play) The students used printouts of themselves and professional athletes to make individual collages that were then worked together into a much lager collage. 

Practical felt making

This project was designed to teach basic felt making, then explore what you could then make out of it. I wanted the participants to get a practical use out of it, so we focused on making either a purse or small bag, glasses or phone case etc. What ever they wanted, as long as it was practical in some way.

Play leaders training day

This workshop was designed to inspire and educate play leaders in Lambeth enabling them to pass the skills and knowledge gained onto their young people. Workshops included Screen Printing, Felt making, Mosaic making and Ceramics.

Ceramic tiles

We were asked to go back to St Q after the success of the mosaic tabletops and stepping stones for the garden. This time we delivered a ceramics workshop showing participants how to make Bas relief tiles. We then made a series of tiles spelling out St. Quentins and made additional tiles to decorate the edges with images of activities and things they like most.

Team Hadleigh

This was part of a wider project funded by Essex County Council and the Olympic Committee. A mountain bike track was being build specifically for the Olympic Games and to mark the change in landscape, the council wanted to commemorate Hadleighs ever changing history in the making of four banners. This inter-generational project used heat transfers to apply childrens drawings onto fabric. This was then embellished by a group of adults. 

Meadowside Day Centre

During 12 weeks the participants who regularly go to this day centre worked on a reminiscence project using various techniques in collage, applique, poly-block printing and drawing. 

Canalside Activity Centre

Working together with young people that use the centre, we came up with a theme for an outdoor wall installation made up of over 200 triangular, tessellating, bas relief ceramic tiles. The theme was 'flow' and each tile reflected the idea of movement and water. 

St. Quintins

This 6 week project to place in South Kensington at the St. Quintin's day centre. The aim of this project was to support young adults with learning difficulties in the designing and making of two mosaic table tops and stepping stones that were then installed in St.Q's garden.

Family Mosaic and Telstra

This was part of telsras team building initiative. They were set to work repainting walls, creating mosaics and improving the gardens of a housing development in Peckham. The designs were based around the local area, including Peckhams famous pie and mash shop and Triumph Motorcycles. 

Archbishop Sumner School

 'Invention' was the theme chosen for this project to co-inside with the topic that term. The students were asked to invent a robot to help them out with their everyday lives. This robot was then developed into a costume made from recyclable materials. In the meantime the group developed a story around their newly made characters. Once the costumes were finished we brought their story to life with the help of a film artist and ended the project with a screening for family and friends. 

Creative Sparkworks - Mosaic Signs

As part of the outreach projects at Creative Sparkworks we run sessions in conjunction with Family Mosaic, a housing association  These workshops take place in social housing sites and gives residents an opportunity to contribute to the designing and making of a mosaic sign for their building. 

Felt wall hanging

Reminiscence wall hanging working with all residents at a care home in Barnet. Project involved getting participants to talk about their lives, and together choose an aspect of their lives to depict in the patchwork. This might include ref to country of origin, past occupation  hobbies, family, holidays, happy memories etc etc.each design was cut out of felt and the patches were then sewn together and backed with cotton.

Eversfield Community Centre

This 12 week project was part of the outreach program of nearby arts organisation, Community Focus. Based in a community centre in Barnet, the project centred around felt making and embroidery with a client group of 50 and over. 

Valuing Elders

This is a 3 year project located in the abandoned Lillian Baylis Old School in Lambeth. This project is run by Creative Sparkworks and aims to give elders of the local community a place to meet up, have a cup of tea, a chat and some lunch and to create artwork with guidance from the tutors. I help manage the space and support the group in activities such as mosaic making, ceramics, felt making, batik and screen printing. Other activities include; walk and draw ( when its warm enough) drawing in the studio, trips to gardens, galleries and museums, block printing, crochet and knitting and applique and embroidery. This project is so important for our regular clients who need the social interaction as much as anything else. 

Textiles at the Stephen Lawrence Centre

This textiles project has he theme of identity. The client group was a mixture of female refugees and adults with learning difficulties. This project took place over 6 weeks, in which time participants learnt how to create prints from poly-blocks, embroider and applique and use themselves as inspiration for their work. 

My old china

                                          Work in progress


This project was part of a wider creative project celebrating Lambeth's history, specifically Lambeth walk and the factory that was the home of Royal Doulton Ceramics. This was an inter-generational project where I lead a group of young people on a walk around Lambeth,with a walk and draw session to gather information on what Lambeth walk is like now. The information collected was used as inspiration when creating handmade felt swatches back at the studio. The felt swatches where then embroidered by an elders sewing club, who added detail reflecting Lambeth past and present. The swatches were then sewn together to create a wall hanging that went up on display at Lambeth walk Surgery. 

Shadow Puppetry

This workshop explored the idea of shadow puppetry. We followed a piece pf text from an adaption of Roald Dahls 'The BFG' Whilst the kids designed and made their own puppets and set pieces, I made the two screens that the work was projected onto. The first screen represents the caves in which the giants lived and the second was where dreams were caught.