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and tie dyeing always makes for a fun session 🌈🌼
It’s been a real pleasure working with women & families from @aidboxcommunity over the past few weeks, using natural materials & the beautiful community garden @bristoltrinity as inspiration for drawings, clay work & tie dyeing. The members were so up for experimenting with new ideas & materials, and one 9yr old boy wowed us all with his creative talent.
Being together and losing ourselves in fun, laughter, creativity & nature 🌿 all the essential ingredients. Some brilliant memories with wonderful people; elders, artists & volunteers #meetmeatthealbany #Lewishamhomes.
Journeys & migration are part of all our stories, yet so much conflict is about borders. This is a still from animations made by child refugees in Calais with the wonderful @artrefuge_ and screened at my first ever event. In another people shared the reasons behind journeys taken by relatives. These #kindnesspostcards show warmth & empathy for people fleeing Ukraine, while the govt sending vulnerable refugees to Rwanda sends the opposite message 😢
Dreaming of the caravan in Somerset skies 🌿☀️💙
Making sessions with members from #AFRIL’s Helping Hands Foodbank (pre covid). I find clay & textiles are brilliant when working with people from refugee backgrounds because of their universality and multi sensory natures. They provide exploratory and therapeutic mediums for people to express themselves, their experiences, craft & cultural practices. Our Sri Lankan friend made this wonderful elephant within a 20m session!
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In every project & group I’ve worked with we use nature & place as guide, material & inspiration, exploring and immersing ourselves in the landscape and engaging in mindful practices, creative play & experimentation 🌿🌱
Heading off to hear music in the sun tonight & thinking back to the first gig at the caravan.. wonderful musicians with a lovely supportive crowd playing by candlelight @thfest 2017. A magical night 💫
Collaboration is at the heart of my project. Joining up with brilliant organisations like @brockley_open_studios at festivals & events helped bring visibility and public engagement to us both, as well as mutual support for our small non-profit, artist & women led community initiatives. One sunny festival we invited people to share stories of journeys & migration in their families to celebrate #worldrefugeeday- many great conversations were had and so many journeys added!
Happy Sunday lovely folk ☀️☀️
Hello #Frome friends
cancelled plans led to a misty moonlit winter walk in this special place.
excited to be producing the visual arts component of @emergencefestivalfrome this weekend, a new festival celebrating creativity and motherhood, in all it’s forms; bringing together textiles, illustration, print, photography, sculpture, painting, live drawing, audio installations, poetry, drumming, music and loads more..
#RefugeesWelcome 🧡
Some shots from the #stayingconnected exhibition which opened last week @albanyse8 as part of the Festival of Radical Care.
beautiful and still skies in Somerset last night as the world is in chaos
happy #earthday 🌍
saturday vibes #brutondovecote #somerset
There’s been a few twists and turns since my last post, but back in time to say happy spring equinox 🌱here’s to the return of light and warmth, we all need it!
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