This Heritage Youth Community project with the Museum of The Home was inspired by Newington Green's history as a home for radical thinkers and dissenters. Brainstorming ideas around dissent and what the participants wanted to dissent about.

Starting work on collaging their designs

Design based on Daniel Defoe's civet cats!

Monoprinting lino cuts onto wallpapers, trying out ideas

Starting a lino cut design

A series of lino cuts inspired by the poems of Edgar Allen Poe, printed onto wallpaper which will decorate a room set displayed on Newington Green.

Participants having fun!

A wallpaper design featuring handprint 'flowers'

Wallpaper featuring a lino cut design of underwear with a 'No Entry' sign

Covering cardboard frames with plaster bandage for mirrors

The fantastic final room set in situ on Newington Green with all wallpaper, mirrors, rug and ceramics designed and made by the participants.

Retail Product project. Participants were invited to create a product fit to sell in the museum's shop. They also designed the props and backgrounds for the photo shoots.These ceramics were based on shoes that would have been worn by the lady of the house in Georgian times.

Retail product project. Tote bags and pencil cases featuring clocks from the collection.

Retail product project. A tea towel design based on dolls hands.

Retail product project. A series of postcards based on the English living room from Tudor times to the 1990's.

Retail product project. Chess pieces made of fimo based on furniture from the collection.

The final chess pieces on the board.

Exploring the potential of and A4 sheet of paper and lamp prototypes

Lamp making in progress

Lamp making in progress

Some of the final pieces projecting shadows

Youth Projects. Museum of The Home & University Of The Arts London

I have designed and delivered family workshops at the Museum of

The Home for 10+ years, occasionally leading longer-term projects. This

Heritage Youth Community project was inspired by Newington Green's

history as a home for radical thinkers and dissenters. Over a number of

weeks the young people created lino-cuts designs inspired by Daniel

Defoe's civet cats to Mary Woolstencraft's 'The Vindication Of The

Rights of Women' and Edgar Allen Poe's poetry. These were printed onto

wallpaper all keeping to a limited colour palette. Papier mache mirrors

and ceramic plates were also decorated. The project culminated in a

life-size 17th century style room-set decorated entirely with objects

the young people had made. This was installed on the

Green for a weekend picnic event where the community were able to enjoy

interacting with the set and taking part in craft workshops. It was a fantastic project, the creation of a unique social space for new stories to unfold.

Retail Project
A project with local young people to create a product that would be a good fit to sell in the museum's shop. Inspired by the museum's collection the young people produced beautiful and sophisticated products including ceramics, a chess set with miniature furniture as the chess pieces, and postcards. They also designed a set and props for a professional photo shoot of their products.

Lightshade project, University of the Arts London
After being introduced to some inspiring images of lighting structures, the students were given A4 sheets of paper, hole punches and staplers and, in 1 minute bursts, invited to create 3D shapes and structures without thinking too much about it. This exploration of the potential of a flat sheet of paper became the foundation for their final lightshade pieces which looked spectacular. I worked with UAL on several projects over 5+ years in partnership with the V&A and Imperial college plus many local schools and colleges.

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Youth Projects. Museum of The Home & University Of The Arts London