External opportunities and ideas

Possible collaborations, residencies, open calls, grants, competitions, programs extra . . .

Career goals

My current career goals are to get a part time job running nature & art workshops and events for galleries, museums or community arts centres. Which I hope will give me a better understand as to whether teaching art to adults is something I would like to do in the future. I also intend to explore teaching or technician options and residences which enable me to teach, run workshops or engage in a social based practice. Additionally, I intend to explore setting up my own business as a freelance artist selling art work online, exhibiting in galleries, exploring commissions and selling art experiences in the form of workshop, events, birthday parties and retreats. Initially working from home and using my day lounge as a studio and then in the future looking to find a shared studio space to work from.

Success for me would look like 1. Continuing to build my art skills and ideas through practicing, taking part in competitions and short courses. 2. Developing skills in community and events facilitation leadership and management. 3. Becoming my own boss and developing skills as a free lance artist, finances, time management, publicity, sales, customer services and general business knowledge.4. Developing a body of high quality service that I can offer customers workshops, classes and art retreats. 5. Being part of an exciting and friendly art community which leads to opportunities. 6. Regularly exhibiting my work. 7. Developing a creative product or form of art work that I can regularly sell.

Galleries I want to work with

The Barbican Centre
The Welcome Trust
Somerset House
Ground Work Gallery Norfolk
William Morris Gallery-3 month residency- you can also exhibit work in their cafe or in their shop
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Grizadale Arts
Serpentine Gallery

Places I could easily put on shows

Lopping Hall- Local Gallery- cheep to exhibit work and puts on local art trails
No Format Gallery
The Robert Burt Gallery
St Marks Crypt
Lewisham Art House
The Crypt St Johns Bethnal Green
The Crypt Gallery Dukes Road
C4RD Centre for Recent Drawing Highbury Station Road Phil Goss
Bricklane Galleries

Museums I want to work with

Natural History Museum
V & A artists in residence
Garden Museum artists in residence and small exhibition space
Horniman Museum and gardens- current cal resident Dr Dan Byrne-smith

Residencies

GuildHall Artists in Residence
Bow arts
Free studio for 3 months followed by solo exhibition in London

1 September-30 November 2020 or alternative Studio Practice Grant of £1,500. Deadline 20th of June £35

Open Calls to apply

Gone in 60 seconds Strangelove film festival or Isolation, diversity, climate
http://explorersagainstextinction.co.uk/initiatives/sfs-introducing/
Sustainability first art prize
Artists Collecting Society Studio Prize
Young Contemporary talent purchase prize
The signature art prize
Contemporary young artist award thebiscuitfactory.com
Bridgeman studio award
Artworks open Barbican arts group
Trinity Buoy Wharf drawing prize
National original print exhibition
Marshwood arts awards
Ashurst emerging artist prize
Deadline September 2020
https://www.artprize.co.uk/

Awards, Grants and Competitions

https://climatecultures.net/resources/opportunities/

https://www.moma.co.uk/uk-art-competitions/
Jerwood Art Fund Makers Open 2021 is an award for five early-career UK-based artists and makers to develop and present ambitious new works using all forms of making and material experimentation.https://jerwoodarts.org/jerwood-art-fund-makers-open-2021-application-guidance/
Innovate Grants

Job search sites

If I could jobs
Internships at Camden arts centre

Resource sites

Artrabbit
Artquest
https://bowarts.org- art residencies, educational workshop residencies, talks, events, skill shares
UAL Postgraduate community news letter
the dots
linked inn

Archives and collections- to visit after lockdown

Online

The Drawing Centre New York- free online art books
Artuk.org- free collection of thousands of art works
Artsandculture.google.com -free collection of thousands of art works

Places to visit

Drawing room London- free library
Library and Collections at the natural history museum in botany, entomology, zoology, palaeontology
Library, art and archives at Kew- free entry
National Art Library at V and A
Horniman Museum nature collections and library
Tate library and archives- need to book an appointment, you can go on a tour, online catalogue

Interdisciplinary Projects/ skill development

www.brooklynartlibrary.com/sketchbookproject
Deliver workshops at a museum or gallery
Set up a podcast interviewing other artists, reviewing art exhibitions and discussing challenges in art practices, tips for art students
Create an online blog- writing about current events in the world of art and the enviroment
Volunteer at a local community garden and learn more about how to work with plants
Take a class in floristry
Take a pottery class
Learn for-edging so that I could combine knowledge of fording with my art and 'amble and sketch' workshops
Learn how to use illustrator and photoshop
Learn embroidery techniques to be able to draw using stitch

Business, skills, CV building ideas

Visit natural history, climate change, garden and botanical archives and create work as a result
Create workshops in drawing, Lino, etching, collage, stop motion animation
Develop process videos or online courses for homeschooling communities, gallery and museum websites.

For example, here is a process video that I made for a Primary school in Huddersfield

Workshop ideas to offer to the local community and different Galleries

For example I could offer to run a workshop at the Culpeper Roof Garden in London :

Idea 1 - Make your own botanical illustration Zine and get tips on how to grow your own in door garden for beginners.

Idea 2- Create your own botanical utopia collage recycling paper and magazines, join the discussion on sustainable living moving into the future.

Idea 3- Sketch book binding for beginners out of recycled paper

Idea 4- Lino printing workshop- make your own set of 5 cards inspired by local nature.

Idea 5 - Guided nature walk and draw (finding the green in our city land scape)

Parks in London, Inner city, Epping forest, Natural history museum, botanical garden centre, community garden).

Idea 6- Monoprint for beginners gathering inspiration from the world around us. Start off by exploring the area taking photos of anything you find interesting.

Idea 7- Make your own charcoal stop motion animation exploring what you think the future holds and discuss the role of art in shaping the future.

Idea 8- Local plant prints in clay

Idea 9- Family activity sheets or process videos inspired by my art practice, using nature as a source of inspiration or doing any of the above workshops at home

Ideas 10-How to press your own flowers and create your own natural collection

Idea 11- Create your own charcoal fossil drawing using plant fossils for inspiration

Idea 12- Create your own wildlife documentation journal/sketchbook

Idea 13- Imagine and draw your own natural history collection

Proposals for collaborations that I have recently sought out:-

Proposal for 'Rock, Paper,Scissors family activity sheet' The Drawing Room London

Inviting children and their families to explore drawing with ink and reinventing the plants of the future.

Click the 'P' below to see Pdf

This is a process video that I created for the charity 'all we can' during lockdown 2020

Family Activity sheet-

futuristic ink plants

Family activity worksheet proposal to The Horniman Museum and Gardens or The Garden Museum, inviting children to create a futuristic wildlife collage and drawing activity using the natural history collections and gardens as inspiration-Click the 'P' below to see Pdf. The Garden Museum has expressed an interest in using these activity sheets for their website.

Family Activity sheet- Collage

Family Activity sheet-

drawing garden tools

Family Activity sheet-

clay garden

Art event ideas

'Amble, Forage and Sketch' a collaboration with the Postgrad community that I could develop and take further afield. I am currently looking into turning this event into a postgrad interest group.

In Collaboration with Rachel Hogg

Open to all UAL postgraduate students from all visual art practices (MA and PhD).

An opportunity to meet together with other postgraduate artists online and enjoy the outdoors. Collectively discovering local wildlife through walking and exploring diﬀerent approaches to drawing. With the potential to turn collective drawings and experiences of ‘Amble & Sketch’ into a collective online or printed publication.

Event Schedule

1pm- Meet on Zoom for introduction and drawing brief.
1.30 to 4.30pm- Go for an amble in your local area and sketch the things you ﬁnd using a variety of materials to draw with, following the optional drawing brief.
4.30 till 5.30pm- Meet on Zoom to collectively share artworks and experiences of ambling and sketching.

Suggested resource list

sketchbook
something to draw with such as graphite pencil
coloured pencils
ink pens
bamboo stick
chalk-coal
rubber
sharpener

Drawing Brief

Taking your sketchbook and drawing materials, embark on a walk in your local area and have ago at drawing some of the following.

Find and draw something that is over looked.
Find and draw something manmade being taken over by the natural elements.
Explore layering drawings on top of each other.
Try drawing with your opposite hand.
Draw the intricate textures of the diﬀerent things you ﬁnd on your walk.
Do a drawing made up of shadows.
What kinds of animals and insects are near by? Draw them in movement.
Try drawing something by touch and not sight. Hold a leaf or twig in your hands and draw it with your eyes closed.
Be still and listen to the noises around you. What can you hear? Draw the sounds that you hear.
Draw the movements of the clouds or what the wind would look like as a drawing.
Find diﬀerent natural materials from your walk and create a drawing using their pigments.
If you were to imagine a new plant that had never been discovered before what would it look like?

Additionally you could document your experience of ‘Amble and Sketch’ in a written article or record your experience through video or audio which could be included with drawings in a future publication.

To book a place, please provide the following to pgcommunity@arts.ac.uk

Name
Course
College

We are happy to receive any questions you may have too!

Project Proposal For Botanical Garden at Canary Warf

Here are a selection of sketches for exhibition ideas involving exhibiting my animations on screens or projectors at the botanical garden in Canary Warf were I could hold a observe and sketch competition and invite members of the public to engage in observing and draw the plants in the garden and create their own flip books greening up the places where they live.

Project Proposal ideas for the Yorkshire Sculpture Park

In collaboration with the Yorkshire Sculpture Park I propose to run a workshop which involves facilitating viewers in a Walk, Sketch and Collect workshop followed a mono printing workshop using the natural materials collected on the walk. I think this kind of workshop would work well in the YSP, although it is is similar to walk and play I think it would attract a different audience and would enable viewers to really engage with the art and environment on offer at YSP. Some of the workshops that are already taking place at the sculpture park include a walk and play session with Idit Nathan and Helen Stratford, a creative activities and social lunches tacking mental health with Kate Sully and Art therapy in nature with mental health and abuse charity Leap of Faith.

I also have an ambitious idea for a sculpture which I would need to get funding for. The idea is that I would build a life size steel tree which has screens embeded in the trunk and live climbing roses slowly growing up and around the sculpture. My animations would be played on the screens inside the trunk and the rose bush would need to be pruned just so that it doesn't completley obstruct the view of the animations on show.

Project Proposal Ideas for William Morris Gallery

I propose to make a series of stop motion animation exploring my theme of nature reclaiming human dwellings but using patterens inured by William Morris to take over the buildings in my animations. The patterns could also be drawn on the walls of the exhibition space ad if the patterns where growing out of the animations onto the walls ready to take over the whole gallery.

I could also offer to run workshops in the gallery in which I invite viewers to create their own floral patterns that could take over a section of the gallery space in displaying the patterns created in the workshop. I could encourage viewers to use both designs by William Morris and inspiration found in the park which the gallery is in to draw patterns.

Other Exhibition Proposals

Residency Proposal

Below are two example of residency proposals I have written, this is something I feel that I need to develop and would like to practice and write more in the future.

Business lecture notes

1. How to network like a pro:-

Networking platforms- WhatsApp, linked, slack, instagram, the dots, facebook, twitter, Eventbrite, webinars.
Each month make 3 new contacts, have two conversations and 1 coffee with someone you want to build a network with.