Workshops

Dec 2025, Bow Arts Courtyard Room.  

In this session, children and families made festive themed masks and hats using paper plates, coloured card and other assorted materials. There was a green screen and webcam on the day, so that families could perform in their own Winter Wonderlands, with an array of festively themed video backdrops to choose from, using real time video capturing and mixing software.  

This event was an inclusive, family friendly environment open to all abilities and age groups, commissioned by Bow Arts.

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Feb-Nov 2025, Student aged 12-13 years old

Over a period of time, I coached a student through an independent and ambitious ceramic project. She made a life-sized bust of a woman’s torso during weekly 40 min sessions until the summer. Near the end of autumn term, she glazed the ceramic sculpture.

Oct-Dec 2025, Year 10

I ran introductory sessions in the ceramic hand-building techniques of slab building, pinching and coiling for two groups of Year 10 students. They were creating responses for their GCSE research project on ‘Food’. After bisque firing the sculptures, I taught them about ceramic glazes before they applied it to their work. Some students have now chosen to make a ceramic final piece using the skills they have learned.

Sept 2025, Year 11

With Year 11, I ran a workshop on paper-making with pulp made from recycled school materials. It was tailored towards their GCSE research themes, including ‘Flora & Fauna’, so they were encouraged to create experiments for their projects. We embedded flowers, photo printouts and photocopies of their previous drawings, as well as creating textures and colouring with ink. They could also explore how to use paper pulp sculpturally, with one student making a character that will be used in digital illustrations and collage.

July 2025, 2-4 year olds

As part of the Bow Arts Artist Educator Traineeship I was undertaking, I led an activity with nursery school children where we were making costume elements for their Wonderful Waterways parade. We made badges, hats and capes using accessible materials such as cardboard, tissue paper and recycled packaging. The children painted scales using netted materials, and collaged with print outs of local river creatures.

July 2025, Nursery School Staff

During my Artist Educator Traineeship with Bow Arts, I led a CPD session in weaving for nursery school staff. To make it more accessible, I showed them how to make a loom with just string and cardboard. We used split lollypop sticks as our needles to weave our yarn through the warp, which would also make it easier to guide a toddler through the process.

Feb - March 2025, 12-13 year olds

I worked with a small group of students to plan and produce self-initiated ceramic artworks. I taught them hand-building techniques such as coil, pinch and slab. Additionally, I guided them in writing artist statements that convey the influence behind their work and why it is important, imparting high level reflective skills that will enable them to achieve higher grades at GCSE level.

Sept - Dec 2024, 11-14 year olds

This was a 2D to 3D making project with students at a North London school, bringing exquisite corpses drawings to life. They acquired new skills in sewing, pattern cutting, and embroidery by translating drawing to sculpture.

Jun - Jul 2024, 11 - 15 year olds

In this illustration project, secondary school students developed their design and presentation skills. Working on character designs, they were encouraged to explore world-building and narrative within their drawings. These workshops were held in preparation for a visit from the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration, which incorporated collage elements in the penultimate workshop.

Apr – May 2024, 11-15 year olds

Over 4 hourly sessions, I led workshops of 50 Art Scholar students at a secondary school in North London where they learnt how to print cyanotypes. They were encouraged to experiment – creating pigments with spices, making texture with chemicals, and toning their prints in tea/coffee. Afterwards, they manipulated their prints with collage, drawing, or sewing to explore new ways of image-making. We finished the project by reflecting on their work in smaller groups to develop critical thinking skills.

Feb – Apr 2024, 11-15 year olds

For a North London secondary school musical performance of ‘The Wiz’, I organised the production of props by 60 students. I led workshops to make backdrops, corn fields, crows, antique books, a massive key, poppies and yellow brick roads amongst other things. It challenged the children to learn new making and problem solving skills, as well as to how to work towards a deadline.

(image: Alex Williams)