The new, updated kids’ activities on the Portraits and Portraiture site we produced for the Museum Network finally launched recently. A heady mix of hand-drawn stuff by me, slick Flash work by Hugh Williams of DUNK and a range of amazing portraits by Rembrandt, Hals and Velázquez, to name but three, make this a winning formula [...]

Much of the past few weeks have been spent preparing to become a Creative Practitioner in schools, as part of the Creative Partnerships Programme run here in Kent by Future Creative. Apart from having completely exhausted the words ‘creative’ and ‘creativity,’ it’s been a really interesting and worthwhile experience so far, as much for the opportunity [...]

Had a good day last Thursday at Tate Britain, chipping in with my take on gallery interpretation for the Visual Dialogues Young People’s Programme. Eventually, the participants (A and AS level students from London, Manchester, Birmingham, Sheffield and Newcastle) will be developing their own forms of interpretation for the gallery. But as a way of showing [...]

I’m pleased to say I’ll be contributing to this year’s Visual Dialogues programme at Tate Britain. Run annually in partnership with regional collections, Visual Dialogues allows and encourages young people aged between 15-18 to make dynamic interventions into gallery spaces, creating imaginative tools for interpretation and audience engagement. For 2008′s project, Tate Britain is working in [...]

Archive Adventures, a ground-breaking online resource for schools which I’ve been working on with DUNK for the Whitechapel Gallery, was launched at Westminster recently by Minister of State for Culture, Tourism and the Creative Industries, Margaret Hodge. The website, which has been used in conjunction with a series of workshops in East London schools, opens [...]

With the opening of the Folkestone Triennial now just a week away, I’m happy to report the completion of both an illustrated Young People’s Guide and Audio Guide, written and produced by me! These form two parts of an interpretation hat-trick for the Triennial, with an online Photo Map also on the way later this [...]

I will be producing a Young People’s Guide and an Audio Guide for this summer’s inaugural Folkestone Triennial. Sculpture, sound-work, photography, film and performance pieces by 23 internationally renowned artists will be experienced across the seaside town the Giant Thumb calls home from June 14th. Curator Andrea Schlieker says: “It’s a tribute to Folkestone’s truly [...]