Friends of Marsden Park Carol Concert

Workshops
Star lanterns with Marsden Junior School
Paper bag lanterns with Marsden Infant School

Flame Props for the Royal Albert Hall

Huddersfield Young Singers at Music For Youth at the Royal Albert Hall

Around 600 young singers and musicians from Huddersfield are performing at the Royal Albert Hall.

Members of Kirklees Youth Symphony Orchestra and Huddersfield Young Singers are performing on stage at what is considered one of the world’s most iconic concert venues.
It’s part of the three-day Music for Youth Schools Prom, which features the finest 3,000 of the UK’s young voices and musicians.

Wiltshire white horse project

Gruffalos child

Exhibition at Marsden Mechanics

Creatures take over Marsden playground!

Planning with The Junior Friends of Marsden Park

Design at the Infants and Junior Schools

Selecting the designs

Painting with the children

Slug dog!

Wild About Wool

This is a project I've been involved with for many months, it has included; school workshops, community workshops, learning new craft skills, yarn bombing, preparing for 2 exhibitions and of course overseeing the development, growth and transformation of 'the woolly mill' from drawings to lantern to 3D textile.

www.wildaboutwool.co.uk

The project culminated in an exhibition at Tolson Museum, it's still on! Well worth a visit.

www.kirklees.gov.uk/leisure/museums/news.asp?cat=museumnews&NewsID=1231

Wild about wool also continues in weekly tuesday evening woolly craft sessions at the Watershed in Slawit.

Getting up to date

I'm going to try and fill in the gaps since last October! In the absence of a website this is the only place I can showcase my work so I'm going to make a conscious effort to keep up with it. 

Carnival thoughts

I'm applying for a vacancy at the Deighton Carnival, it's got me thinking about the last time I created a Carnival super costume/puppet at the Huddersfield Caribbean Carnival back in 2003.

Created from an initial sketch by inspiring set designer Moira Benoit. The patchwork cover was a collaboration between children and parents at Springwood J & I and the amazing stitching of Delmara.
I made the framework, body parts, articulated trunk and tail, legs/sallapets and brought it all together into a working pantomime elephant (required 2 puppeteers.)
It was such a lovely collaborative project to work on and the kids loved following the elephant through the town centre.
I'd love to design a rainbow zebra, a flock (or wedge) of swans, a party of peacocks....!


Roll on sunshine, colour, music and taking over the streets!