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| | Art Forms: | Visual Art (Mosaics) | | | | Age Ranges: | 16+
Adult Education
Elderly
Excluded Young People
Families
Further Education
Higher Education
KS1 - Infants (age 5-7)
KS2 - Junior (age 7-11)
KS3 (age 11-14)
KS4 (age 14-16)
Reception (age 4-5)
Refugees/asylum seekers
Special Needs - emotional/behavioural difficulties
Special Needs - Learning Difficulties
Special Needs - Physical Difficulties
Special Needs - Sensory Difficulties
Young People at risk of offending | | | | Regions: | Bath and North East Somerset
Bristol
Gloucestershire
North Somerset
South Gloucestershire
Swindon
Wiltshire | | | | Work/Services: | After school workshops
Commissions
Inset Training
Residencies/long-term projects
Site specific projects |
| | | | CRB Disclosure Issue Date: | 20 February 2006 | | | | Public Liability Insurance: | Yes |
| | Recent Work: | | Organisation | Contact | Date Completed | Description | | Arts Together | Karolyne Fudge-Malik | November 2007 | Group activity with Senior Citizens: Mosaic patterns inspired by Rangoli Patterns for Divali | | Harrow Way Community School | Chrissy Collins | March 2007 | One-day workshop making exterior mosaic tiles with Year 10 pupils. | | Dot to Dot | Anna Potten | March 2006 | Lead artist for a large 3m x 5m community mural in Portsmouth with 500 participants. |
| | Personal Statement: | I have been working as a mosaicist since 1988, originally with an environmental arts organisation in Bristol and subsequently on my own. In that time I have worked on many participatory projects, initially with schools but have in the last five or so
years directed many mosaic projects with adults in all kinds of situations from pubs to psychiatric wards. I have also expanded my own mosaic expertise through public and private commissions.
Design work in schools often reflects other areas of the curriculum such as cultural diversity, healthy eating, the natural world or a school's vision statement. I always use designs generated by the pupils. I expect pupils to learn how to cut and manipulate the tessera in a correct and safe way and I never fail to be delighted by the invention and energy that pupils bring to mosaic design and making.
I originally trained as a painter and after art school worked on mural projects with young people, due to this I was initally drawn to mosaic for its durability. However, as I learnt more about the exacting skills of cutting and laying tessarae I was soon seduced by the richness of texture, colour and movement in mosaic. The flow of tesserae, described by the Romans as ‘Andamento’, can be manipulated to emulate the energy coursing through the muscles of a running animal or the more abstract texture of pattern and decoration. There is a huge choice of materials from glittery, reflective vitreous glass shot through with copper and gold to subtle porcelain tiles with soft, earthy hues.
My technical experience in mosaic fabrication is ever expanding as each project throws up new problems to solve, for example, I have made mosaics for swimming pools, floors, seating, mosaics set in aluminium trays and most recently, an exciting project using ‘cut-out’ aluminium motifs as part of the frame for the mosaic to create a free standing sign (Britwell Library, Slough and Thornhill Health Clinic, Southampton). |
| | Reference 1: | Chrissy Collins
Art Teacher
Harrow Way Community School
Harrow Way
Andover
SP10 3 RH
01264 364 533
adminoffice@harrowway.hants.sch.uk |
| | Reference 2: | Anna Potten
Director
Dot to Dot
Paulsgrove & Wymering Healthy Living Centre
219-225 Allayway Avenue
Portsmouth
PO6 4HG
02392 200 317
info@dottodot.org.uk |
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