Projects
We are very fortunate to work on a number of exciting projects alongside our core work of creating public art. These projects enable us to share the joy of participating in creative activity with people in the community.
Between us we have a huge amount of project delivery and management experience and have worked with people in many different settings including nurseries, schools, colleges, universities, specialist community centres, arts centres, zoos, country parks, women’s refuges’, prisons and hospitals. We have particular interest in working families, bringing different generations of people together to participate in activities alongside one another - this work always produces some lovely family moments.
Parallel Rhythms
Parallel Rhythms, is a two-year teacher development project that is being delivered across six schools in Kirklees.
This substantial project was a unique opportunity for us to share our artistic passions, knowledge, experience and belief that the Arts can have a huge positive impact on children, with a group of twelve teachers over a prolonged period of time. Participating in Parallel Rhythms gave the teachers skills, confidence and creative experiences to bring about positive change in the way they deliver Art, Music and creative activity in their own classroom setting.
During the first year of the project, we focussed on delivering in-class sessions, creating bespoke online session content that was hosted on the project website, held teacher creative away days, and led creative class trips the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Cannon Hall Museum and Country Park and Gallery 20-21, Scunthorpe. This first year of providing the teachers with creative fuel, ignited their imagination and encouraged them to identify personal areas of development for the second year.
The journey of each teacher through the second year of the project was extremely varied, reflecting the context, passions and interest of each teacher. Fabric Lenny worked alongside teachers to completely overhaul tired Art curriculum content, working with individual and small groups of teachers to develop their ideas and skills in drawing, printing and sculpting. These skills were then woven into new, exciting and relevant art activities that were embedded into the new curriculum content.
The named arts organisation for Parallel Rhythms was The Colour Foundry with Fabric Lenny undertaking the role of lead artist and Katrina Whale as Project Manager.
Funded by: Paul Hamlyn Foundation
BettaLives - making our mark
We are having such a wonderful time working with the Betta Lives group in Barnsley. We are leading weekly drawing, marking making and painting workshops for this fun loving group of adults with learning disabilities, that are leading to the creation of large scale wall-based artworks for their day centre. Making our Mark is focussed on giving the individuals, rich art based experiences that provide them with new ways of communicating, working independently and achieving. The group members blow us away each week with their focus, individuality and distinct art work.
The group’s art work is shaping designs that are transforming the Betta Lives centre into a vibrant, colourful and distinct environment that speaks volumes about the individual personalities within the group, their art work and their sense of fun. As part of the project, the Betta Lives staff team are participating in all the activity as a way of developing their own creative skills and ability to lead art based activity in-house, beyond the life of the project.
Funded by: National Lottery, Creative Minds and Shaw Lands Trust
