Julie has been working as a Freelance Arts Practitioner since 1999, She is committed to and passionate about the contribution that creativity and the arts can and should make to learning. She has extensive experience of working with schools and community groups, aged from the under 5s through to people aged 80+ (look under C.V for examples) both in the community and galleries and museums
Julie uses a wide range of materials and techniques with skill and enthusiasm; experimentation with new approaches on projects being central to the work that she undertakes. Her work for schools ties in and builds on National curriculum themes and resulting work is often large scale with a strong sense of colour, pattern and composition.
She has deliverd adult evening classes and weekend workshops on a regular basis with themes such as drawing, printing and collage. She regularly runs the ever popular sell out courses 'Can't Draw, Won't Draw' and 'Can Draw, Will Draw at The Lowry.
Julie holds a current enhanced DBS certificate and Public Liability insurance.
She is a fully accredited Arts Award Adviser in Discover, Explore, Bronze, Silver and Gold.
Projects
Slice Project for The Lowry/Curious Minds at Ridgewood Community High School Burnley
The Slice project is committed to increasing access to and raising the standard of cultural education for children and young people in the North West of England, this part of the project focused comparing models of continuing professional development.for school staff.
I worked for several sessions at Ridgewood Community High school, a school for students with special educational needs and physical disabilities with 10 KS3 students and 4 staff. During the sessions we focused on exploring the maps, shapes, textures and colours of the school in order to design and make two large banners to be displayed in the school.
The Slice project is committed to increasing access to and raising the standard of cultural education for children and young people in the North West of England, this part of the project focused comparing models of continuing professional development.for school staff.
I worked for several sessions at Ridgewood Community High school, a school for students with special educational needs and physical disabilities with 10 KS3 students and 4 staff. During the sessions we focused on exploring the maps, shapes, textures and colours of the school in order to design and make two large banners to be displayed in the school.
Thomas Horsfall Project - Manchester Art Gallery
This project was based on the Thomas Horsfall exhibition Manchester Art Gallery. The exhibition explored a selection of nature themed artworks and objects from the little-known Thomas Horsfall collection. The 60 artworks on display from Horsfall’s art collection include birds, botanical and garden drawings and watercolours
The project was with two schools, Goostrey Community Primary School in Cheshire and Manchester Communication Academy in Harpurhey, it explored the concept of beauty and the formal elements in art and design of line,shape, pattern, texture, composition, form, tone and colour. The team of four artists on the project were given two formal elements each to explore, I focused on pattern and texture. We were asked to select two artworks form the exhibition that inspire us and relate to our formal elements. I chose artworks with birds living in city and countryside habitats.
At Goostrey Community Primary School the pupils worked with gallery staff to produce an exhibition guide.
At Manchester Communication Academy the students produced a video based on the themes extracted.
Here is some of the work that was produced in the sessions that I carried out based on texture and pattern.
Goostrey Community Primary School
This project was based on the Thomas Horsfall exhibition Manchester Art Gallery. The exhibition explored a selection of nature themed artworks and objects from the little-known Thomas Horsfall collection. The 60 artworks on display from Horsfall’s art collection include birds, botanical and garden drawings and watercolours
The project was with two schools, Goostrey Community Primary School in Cheshire and Manchester Communication Academy in Harpurhey, it explored the concept of beauty and the formal elements in art and design of line,shape, pattern, texture, composition, form, tone and colour. The team of four artists on the project were given two formal elements each to explore, I focused on pattern and texture. We were asked to select two artworks form the exhibition that inspire us and relate to our formal elements. I chose artworks with birds living in city and countryside habitats.
At Goostrey Community Primary School the pupils worked with gallery staff to produce an exhibition guide.
At Manchester Communication Academy the students produced a video based on the themes extracted.
Here is some of the work that was produced in the sessions that I carried out based on texture and pattern.
Goostrey Community Primary School
Manchester Communication Academy- Thomas Horsfall Project
Loreto High School, Chorlton
KS3 Gifted and Talented students worked with Julie on these 3 metre long fabric panels to be displayed prominently within the school. Students produced drawings from around the school site and collaged with maps of the school and local area to produce designs that included words of the school ethos.. The panels were then produced using inks, print and appliqué on canvas.
KS3 Gifted and Talented students worked with Julie on these 3 metre long fabric panels to be displayed prominently within the school. Students produced drawings from around the school site and collaged with maps of the school and local area to produce designs that included words of the school ethos.. The panels were then produced using inks, print and appliqué on canvas.
Stories of Chat Moss
Julie worked as an artist in residence with KS3 pupils at Irlam and Casdished College to create four wallhangings based on 'Stories of Chat Moss'.
Pupils explored the history of Chat Moss by listening to oral histories and drawing from archive photographs. They made four large panels that are exhibited in the entrance of their new academy building. They explored the techniques of wax resist, transfer printing, reverse appliqué on the sewing machine, bondaweb appliqué and hand stitching.
Pupils explored the history of Chat Moss by listening to oral histories and drawing from archive photographs. They made four large panels that are exhibited in the entrance of their new academy building. They explored the techniques of wax resist, transfer printing, reverse appliqué on the sewing machine, bondaweb appliqué and hand stitching.
Woodville Surestart
Julie worked with Emily Capstick, a storyteller/drama practitioner on a project in collaboration with Manchester Art Gallery and The Royal Exchange Theatre at Woodville Surestart Centre in Cheetham Hill with 0-5 year olds and their parents and carers. The project focused on using the children’s book ‘The Swirling Hijaab’ as inspiration and we collaboratively drew themes from the book and planned a series of fun and exciting workshops to engage the children. The work from each session was combined at the end to produce an interactive textile piece that is displayed in the Surestart centre.
