Suzan’s main preoccupation is experimenting with both 2D and 3D
materials, especially discarded resources. She recycles, transforms and
customizes these materials, sometimes combining them with more
predictable media such as paint, collage, textiles. Her studio, as a result, is more of a lab as she mixes the media. Combining culture, fashion and food are her particular interests.
Suzan loves an unusual brief or wacky idea and approaches art workshops as a ‘learning game’. Suzan works with all age groups and abilities, infusing the curriculum with creativity. Clients include The National Trust, The Equal Opportunities Commission and The Kings Fund. Suzan loves surprises, jokes, adventure, languages (communication), dancing, swimming …
Via art she strives to banish the mundane and predictable!
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Steve originally trained as a sculptor and now finds himself doing all sorts of different things that usually, but not always, end up in him making something. Steve is keen to develop educational work that challenges people to think differently and generate new ideas. He has extensive experience in working in schools and gallery settings, developing projects that respond to the needs of participants and focus on giving people an expressive voice.
His work always involves people and places and is concerned with how art can help to give insights and create new meaning. Steve continues to work with school groups as he always enjoys working with children, who he says ‘tend to make me laugh and brighten my days’.
Steve has delivered a number of projects for and creative partnerships
across the region.
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Ruth is a contemporary dance artist, interested in, and focused on, ’sited’ and ’site-specific’ work. Through this approach she is able to bring dance to people who may not ordinarily experience it, for example, through creating choreography for a town square, a particular architectural building or a supermarket.
Alongside her own practice, Ruth also works in theatre collaborating with directors, set designers, writers and actors. Her workshops/educational work can be focused on contemporary dance technique, creative movement and/or choreography, both for theatre or site-specific contexts.
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Ruth Fettis is a freelance artist, who has lived and worked in West
Yorkshire for over 20 years. She has worked extensively with schools,
community groups and galleries and exhibited across the region. She works in a range of media including printmaking, collage, drawing and painting, murals and illustration.
Her main area for her own work is print and she is currently working on
hand-made books and small-scale theatre set designs.
www.ruthfettis.co.uk
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Nichola’s work is based in drawing. She makes large-scale, layered pieces based on mantle-piece objects; scratchy abstracts made through the movement of her body whilst performing activities such as trampolining or cartwheeling; and huge, conceptual, wall based works with paint.
In her education work, Nichola uses drawing to explore materials and
techniques. Drawing is used as a means of expressing thought, feelings and ideas. In her sessions, participants might think about representation and abstraction through alternative drawing methods or find out how mark making can communicate feeling. At all times participants question and reflect on activity at an age-appropriate level.
As a creative professional Nichola has been involved with sensory exploration with early years, cross-curricular development in junior schools, engagement projects in secondary schools and projects of self-discovery with sixth form groups.
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Louise has an interdisciplinary practice, using a wide range of media
including paper, photography, print, artist books, textiles and found objects. Her recent work explores language in art, specifically the cultural relevance of animal idioms from non-English speaking countries. She has used this as a starting point to create a range of work including carbon drawings and text art.
The various techniques within her practice include constructed textiles, origami, documentary photography of installation, bookbinding, drawing and printmaking. The concept and inspiration behind the work usually informs the techniques used and the form the work takes.
Through using creative interpretation techniques, Louise works with groups to explore gallery collections and create related art works. These have also been exhibited alongside the original work to allow audiences new insight into collections.
http://louiseatkinson.blogspot.com
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Kathryn is a visual artist, producing mainly paintings, drawings, and
collages. Rooted in observation, her work is illustrative in the sense that images have a strong narrative, although this narrative can be ambiguous and multi-layered.
She is inspired by images found in old books, postcards, packaging and ‘quotes’ from and combine these second-hand sources to create new images and stories. Her work combines both painterly and graphic, precise and gestural qualities.
Kathryn works with schools and young people to interpret and explore an idea through visual and hands-on learning. She has worked with all key stages, both in a gallery/museum context and within a school environment.
Having worked extensively with the Creative Partnerships programme, she has good knowledge of creative teaching and learning and working in partnership with teachers.
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Using personal experience and family history as a principal resource,
Karen explores images of the past and present through facets of identity, authenticity and location. Her research is done through handed down family stories, family photographs and the personal accounts of displacement.
Karen has over 20 years’ experience in working with children and young
adults in both an education and gallery context, with partners such as
Leeds City Art Gallery, Education Leeds, Pyramid of Arts and Artemis as
well as smaller groups and individual schools.
Although she has particular skills in teaching drawing, print and colour,
Karen prefers a multidisciplinary approach, using text, collage, drawing,
sculpture, sound, colour, performance, photography and painting in the
same project.
Further information can be found on the AXISWebsite:
http://www.axisweb.org/seCVPG.aspx?ARTISTID=14011
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Heidi is a visual artist whose work engages with contemporary social and political issues. Her work usually starts from an idea and which develops using a range of mediums: 3D, drawing, painting, artist’s books, digital collage and video. Heidi works through the appropriate materials and medium to realize the concept.
When working with young people of all ages, her emphasis is on the
creative process and how this can facilitate and extend individual
expression. Using, for example, drawing or sculpture with recycled
industrial materials, she helps participants find different ways to
communicate their vision and talents. As in her own practice, she works with ideas at age appropriate levels. She has worked on citizenship, collectivity, identity, as well as emotions using these methods.
www.heidischaefer.net
www.20plus3.co.uk
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Emma Spencer is an artist who explores everyday materials, playing with their meaning and use. She uses this process as an educator, working with materials like soap, string, ice and tea alongside more traditional art materials.
As an educator Emma encourages young people to follow their own
thinking to question and work in creative ways. She enjoys observing and facilitating this process of engagement. Using work in the Gallery to inspire young people to make responses that are meaningful to them, Emma’s approach is to create dialogues between the art work and young people’s own ideas.
Emma has worked extensively with early years, primary school, family
groups and special needs groups.
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