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NEWSLETTER No.8 May 2015
Art Education North West (AENW) is a regional network which aims to connect all those involved in art, craft and design education across Cumbria and Lancashire, to share ideas, good practice, expertise and resources. Membership is free.
AENWat Tullie House
Wednesday 11 February
Mark Gibbs gave us a very thoughtful and informative talk about the Anselm Kiefer exhibition which al-
lowed us to understand why his questioning of history and memory is still so powerful today. His use of
myths and texts create tensions with the past and present. Helen Walsh, who is a textile artist then ran a
workshop about creating books based on Kiefer’s work – not books just to read or record, but books as art.
We created sculptural books, and books as vessels from all kinds of paper. By the end of the evening we
all had something beautiful to take back with us.
Trish Phillips from QES said of the meeting:
‘During the day of the workshop I find myself longing to go home after a difficult day of teaching. With-
out exception every workshop I have attended has filled me with renewed energy and enthusiasm for the
subject I love. I come away with a multitude of new ideas and shared practice that enables me to approach
my subject with the passion the children I teach deserve.’
What we’ve been up to
What we’ve been up to
Art Education North West Workshop at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School,
Wednesday 25 March
Vega Brennan gave a brief presentation about creativity, start-
ing points and motivations and then Jo Walton let us loose
with twist ties, wire, feathers, packaging, carpet offcuts, cable
ties and bamboo sticks, tasking us with creating our own mark
making tools. During the evening we looked at real birds and
feathers for inspiration and played with materials, mixing and
matching as circumstances dictated. It was a very enjoyable
evening, also thanks to Nicky Douglas and Claire Morris from
Pisces/TTS who supplied the art materials for the evening.
The evening was inspired by Drawing Projects for Children by
Paula Briggs of Access Art, an online visual art resource and
community for educators. Our work was featured on the
Drawing Challlenge website and we had a prize draw for a
copy of the book during the evening.
If you would like a copy of the CD of resources that was given
out at the meeting please email:
Check out our mission statement
on our website:
www.aenw.org.uk What we’ve been up to
MIGRATION PROJECT: 2014-15
Inspired by the Incredible Journeys made by both
Humans and Birds
We have been working with young people from local primary,
secondary and special needs, as well as our own Brewery
youth groups to raise awareness of the complex nature of
migration, the difficulties faced by both humans and birds in
the often complex and sometimes dangerous journeys that
they undertake and how they adapt to their new surroundings,
in a changing environment. We worked in partnerships with
Kendal/Furness Women’s Multi-cultural group and Leighton
Moss RSPB to inform the project. Highlights include; a stun-
ning range of work from Kirkbie Kendal school who had the
opportunity to work with artists Catherine MacDiarmid and sculptor, Paul Mason, a fabric figure
installation created by Staveley school and textile artist Kate Reid alongside a flock of clay birds
created by the local community with Ceramic artist Anna Lambert.
George Grange, Brewery Arts Centre
Visiting Schools I visited the Art Departments of Richard Rose Central and Richard Rose Morton last term. I was worried that the open plan space would be difficult for teachers to manage but in fact found that it worked to the benefit of the staff and students. The teachers in both schools were so enthusiastic and hard-working. It was clear that the students and staff worked extremely well together to produce outstand-ing art work. There was a broad range of media being used and the work was being celebrated and rec-ognised, both in the school and wider community. The pupils' behaviour was excellent.
Thankyou to Lisa and Caroline and all the art staff for letting me visit your schools.
Vega Brennan is still happy to visit primary and secondary schools and provide advice and support. If you'd like her to visit your school please email her [email protected]
Alex Jakob -Whitworth: Collograph in schools I was first introduced to collographs as a 14 year old and have loved the medium ever since. Choosing print-making as part of my degree, I was lucky enough to be taught by Simon Bull and when I took printmaking in-to schools I used the traditional methods he and taught me. One of the beauties and challenges of Collograph is the embossing of the collage materi-als and textures on the paper. This isn't really possible with the equipment in primary schools so I have developed a school-friendly method using traditional techniques, where children can learn how to do this and create beautiful embossed Collograph prints. We have to rearrange the furniture slightly, but that's part of the enjoyment! Children, and staff, can experience a printmaking technique that stretches the boundaries of what might be normally achievable in the classroom without the need for specialist equip-ment. Alex Jakob-Whitworth [email protected] 07891 921416 017683 62664
Find AENW on facebook:
Art Education North West
Drawing Challenge News!
Please do get in touch and let us know if you have already started the Drawing
Challenge, or if you plan to do so. Tell us where you are based, who your audience
is, and pls do get in touch if you require any help. Most of all - pls send us
your drawings to be in with a chance of winning a selection of beautiful books! Many thanks for registering for the Ac-
cess Art Drawing Challenge. We hope you have downloaded the Drawing Challenge PDF (if not pls do so at http://
www.accessart.org.uk/The_Drawing_Challenge.pdf)
Prizes! To be in with a chance of winning, all you need to do is www.wetransfer.com images of
the resulting work over to us at [email protected]. Work will be included in a Drawing
Challenge Gallery at www.accessart.org.uk. Please also email us to let us know your images are
on their way.
More Drawing Exercises? The Drawing Challenge is based upon the brand new “Drawing Projects
for Children” book. The book has had fantastic 5 star reviews by many different audiences. If you
live in the UK and would like to buy the book, pls consider buying direct at http://
www.accessart.org.uk/drawing-projects-children-paula-briggs/
Looking for interesting source material?
Introducing THE Collection- Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery’s new collections online website. Ar-tefacts from Romans to the present including Contemporary Art.
A great place for source material! Images can be used for educational purposes, and there’s back-ground information on each object. There are 50 objects online and we aim to expand. The website was designed with the help of art students for use in secondary schools.
Feedback welcome. http://www.tulliehouse.co.uk/thecollection/
Natalie Deane and the enigmatic Susan M Coles will be hosting an INSET on 'Approaches to Architecture in Art, Craft and Design' for teachers of Key Stages 1-3 on Fri-day the 3rd of July at Battyeford School, Mirfield, (Nr Huddersfield) West Yorks.
Posted by Natalie Deane
Pisces is running an Art Competition to win a day with Contemporary Realist Painter Chris Morgan in your school.
Follow this link for details of how to enter:
http://www.piscesart.co.uk/shops/piscesart/content/view.aspx?cref=PSGEN3058349
Children from aged 5 - 11 having fun making marks with strange and unusual mark making tools at May Fairy Day at Kirklinton Hall Saturday 2nd May.
Posted by Tracy Metcalfe
From our Facebook group:
Art Education North West
Cumbrian Artist of the Year Exhibition Short-list announced
The exhibition at Rheged opens this weekend on Saturday 25th April until 28th June and the five artists short-listed for
the Cumbrian Artist of the Year award have been revealed .
Painter Alan Stones draws his inspiration from the human condition in his imposing and esoteric works, and has exhib-
ited both nationally and internationally in the past. Stones says ’my work might include landscape/nature but this is
nature as metaphor for human activity’.
Fellow painter Phil Morsman, while working in the same medium and also being inspired by the landscape, shows bold
and vibrant works with geometric shapes in vibrant colours.
Richard Hughes sculpture and wall pieces typically make use of found objects, materials, and images.
Di Mcghee’s work is often site specific responding to the landscape directly. She says of her art work ‘often I make
tools from found objects establishing a relationship between the site and the work. This work has taken me to a range
of sites; the coast, the landscape, rivers and dismantled railways.’
Sarah Tew's installations in the gallery at Rheged will explore the themes around, as she herself describes, ‘picking
away at the hierarchical values within artistic processes’.
The exhibition also features the work of Keith Bartley, Alison Critchlow, Rachel Gibson, Beatrice Hasell-
McCosh, Raymond Higgs, Debbie Jenkins, Anne Jenkinson, Marion Kuit, Catherine MacDiarmid, Tricia Mey-
nell, Haydn Morris, Marjorie Park, Rebecca Payn, Gary Power, Lionel Playford, Joan Prickett, Dorothy Ramsay, Evelyn
Sinclair, Glenn Tomkinson and Malcolm Wilson.
Entry to the exhibition is free and open 7 days a week from
10.30am to 4.30pm at the Rheged Gallery, Rheged Centre,
Redhills, Penrith. Visitors will have the chance to vote for their
winner in the People's Choice Award; see below for more details.
The award winners will be announced on 14th May along with
the Young Cumbrian Artist of the Year.
Creative Workshops with Creative Futures
During the past term practical workshops have been running aimed particularly at Primary School
teachers but also those working within a setting which may include art educational activities and
workshops such as museums and outdoor centres. The sessions have run in north and south Cum-
bria, Keswick, Penrith and Barrow to give more people an opportunity to attend.
Developing sketchbook sessions have focussed on exploring effective use of sketchbooks, which has included making three
different types of sketchbook and then working into them using a variety of media and for different reasons. Through the
projects set the participants have explored the purpose of drawing and used contemporary and historical artists to give con-
text to this. Examples of sketchbooks have been analysed from A level to KS2, giving clearer ideas of progression and how to
build a sound basis for young people to develop.
The painting workshops have explored mark making using sponges, combs, sticks etc and washes, layering and sgrafitto tech-
niques. In addition to using different implements a range of paints were used, from acrylics and watercolours to brusho and
the new water-based oil paints that have recently been developed. Experimental techniques were used to create a still life
image and this was linked to critical studies of artists who had worked on a similar theme.
3D workshops gave participants the opportunity to use simple armatures to make and decorate shoes, work together in a
group to recreate a high fashion dress from brown tape and learn ceramic hand building skills using natural forms and textiles
to imprint into slab vessels.
All workshops aim to inspire and give confidence to teach new skills and ideas.
Participants have enjoyed the sessions, the practical hands-on activities, the chance
to create something themselves and the possibilities for how they might use the
skills in their own educational practice. This term sees further 3D sessions as well as
simple printmaking ideas and a workshop for those who enjoy experimental textile
techniques; image transfer, trapping, waxing and distorting.
If you would like to book a place contact Creative Futures Cumbria on 01768 893810.
C-Art Open Studios 2015 | Sat 12th Sept - Sun 27th Sept We now have over 110 artists and galleries confirmed for the 2015 open studio
event. You can still see last year's participants here for a limited time.
As usual C-Art promises an incredible array of creative people and places in the most
beautiful settings. We will be launching this years event soon and announcing some
more extraordinary art in Extraordinary Places.
You can keep up to date with this years plans by liking the C-Art Facebook page
Art & Design in the Primary Curriculum Professional Development Sessions – Summer 2015 Do you want to develop arts skills to help support young people in their creative learning? In need of some inspiration to deliver the new curriculum? Then these sessions are for you!
3D/Sculpture/Clay Thursday 30 April, 1.30-4pm Yarlside Primary School, Red Oak Ave, Barrow-in-Furness LA13 0LH Simple, creative techniques and skills to allow confident access to a range of 3D media and exploring how to assess pupil understanding and outcomes.
Printmaking Wednesday 17 June, 1.30-4pm Yarlside Primary School, Red Oak Ave, Barrow-in-Furness LA13 0LH Or Thursday 18 June, 1.30-4pm Keswick Museum & Art Gallery, Station Road, Keswick CA12 4NF Monoprint, collagraph and simple etching techniques, using washable inks, rollers and presses to create work in response to contemporary artists’ prints.
Textiles: Trapping, stitching, distorting Thursday 2 July, 1.30-4pm The Playstation, Huntley Avenue, Penrith CA11 8NU Using contemporary textile artists as a reference, explore simple textile techniques using wax trap, image transfer, Angelina fibres and a minimal amount of sewing! Artist Facilitator The sessions will be led by professional artist Penny Hunt, who has over 24 years’ experience teaching art and design in a range of different school settings. All sessions will be linked to the aims of the new Primary Curriculum and focus on practical activities that can easily be transferred to your setting. Suitable for Subject leaders across arts subjects in infant and primary settings and all teaching practitioners interested in arts & cultural learning. Cost £50 for each half day session, includes refreshments and materials. How to book Email completed booking form to [email protected]. Places are strictly limited so book early to avoid disappointment. An invoice will be sent to school/organisation and your place will be confirmed on receipt of payment. Creative Futures Cumbria, Unit M Skirsgill Business Park, Penrith CA11 0FA T: 01768 893810 F: 01768 840265 www.creativefuturescumbria.org
"…the sketchbook course was
fantastic…. It was very practical
and I now have plenty of ideas
and examples which I am going
to pass on in our next staff
meeting. I think very differently
about the use of sketchbooks
now and this course will definite-
ly change my practise and the
whole school approach."
Primary teacher
Arts Award training dates Our next Arts Award adviser training sessions will be held at the lovely Quaker Tapestry/Friends Meeting House in Kendal.
Discover/Explore Bronze/Silver Tue 9th June 2015, 1- 4.30pm Wed 8th July, 9.30-4pm
Forthcoming events
AENW Calendar Art Education North West Meeting Face Value, Abbot Hall
Thursday 7 May, 5-7pm
Talk by Beth Hughes about the exhibition and a workshop based on portraiture. If
you would like to attend, please email Anne-Marie
Quinn: [email protected]
Art Education North West Workshop
Making your own sketchbook – Jane Brooks
Kirkbie Kendal School
Tuesday 2 June, 5-7pm
Jane Brooks will be showing you how to make your own sketchbooks. You are wel-
come to bring your own paper and covers or take a chance on what you find.
If you would like to attend, please email Vega Bren-
nan: [email protected]
We're working on our dates for meetings and workshops for next academic year
and will send you our programme after half term
Would you like to host a meeting or workshop for AENW?
Running a workshop is a great opportunity to share your skills and add to your own
professional development. AENW meetings are always friendly and supportive with
a real enthusiasm for art and creativity.
What workshops / meetings / local exhibitions would you like to visit?
We are looking for suggestions for the new academic year. This group is run by its
members and we need your suggestions and ideas.
Forthcoming events
Eden Arts
Workshop with Jacob Sam-La Rose Saturday 16th May, 4pm-6pm
Penrith Old Fire Station
Poet Jacob Sam-La Rose will be running a free workshop for young writers age 15-24 at Penrith Old Fire Station. Jacob Sam-La Rose’s poetry has been characterised as vivid, masterly and carefully struc-tured. He is widely recognised as an indefatigable facilitator, mentor and supporter of young and emerging poets, and as an advocate for the positive impact of new technolo-gy on literary and artistic practice and collaboration. He lives in London, England.
Jacob will also be performing at a poetry and music event at Penrith Old Fire Station that evening, at 7:30pm. This is part of New Writing Cumbria’s Rabbit Rabbit (rabbit) group of young writers and editors. Please contact [email protected] if you would like to book a place.
Poetry by the Lake: poems wanted! Deadline: 6th June
To tie in with the Theatre by the Lake’s upcoming production of The Lady of the Lake, a new play by Benjamin Askew, we’re inviting people to create poetry about specific Cum-brian places (seewebsite), which feature in the play. Selected poems will be performed by actors from Theatre by the Lake’s summer season, at a special event at the theatre on Saturday 10th October. We particularly welcome work from young / emerging writers, and work that takes an original view of the Cumbrian landscape.
We will also publish our favourites in The Carrot: New Writing Cumbria’s digital maga-zine. Please see the website for more details, or contact [email protected] for more infor-mation.
AENW
Mailing List If you want to be taken off the mailing list or if you know of anyone else that would be interested, please contact Vega Brennan (see below)
AENW Contact addresses AENW Coordinator: [email protected] Mailing list: [email protected] Newsletter: [email protected] Facebook: [email protected] If you would like to help out, then please contact [email protected].
We are proud to be supported by the National Society for Education in Art and Design. The NSEAD is a profession-al association and an independent trade union. They provide subject spe-cific and general support, advice and training. For more information, visit:
Whitehaven Academy's
Art Evening
Thurs 2nd July 6-7.30pm
“First Class”
The end of year show for Foundation
Diploma and Extended Diploma Art and Design, Media Production and Perform-
ing Arts at the new Carlisle College of the Arts campus
Strand Rd Carlisle.
15th – 20th June
We’ll be open from 10.00 - 4.00 (11.00-4.00 Saturday)
Opening night on Tuesday 16th from 4.30-8.30 to which all members of the
teachers network are welcome.
End of year shows...
