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| | Art Forms: | Design
Environmental Art (Natural Materials, Recycled/Found)
Literature | | | | Age Ranges: | 16+
Adult Education
Elderly
Families
Further Education
Higher Education
KS1 - Infants (age 5-7)
KS2 - Junior (age 7-11)
KS3 (age 11-14)
KS4 (age 14-16)
Refugees/asylum seekers
Special Needs - emotional/behavioural difficulties
Special Needs - Learning Difficulties
Special Needs - Physical Difficulties
Special Needs - Sensory Difficulties | | | | Regions: | Bath and North East Somerset
Bristol
Gloucestershire
North Somerset
South Gloucestershire
Swindon | | | | Subjects: | Literacy
PSHE | | | | Work/Services: | After school workshops
Commissions
Residencies/long-term projects
Site specific projects |
| | | | Languages Spoken: | Proficiency in French, German, Spanish | | | | CRB Disclosure Issue Date: | 24 December 2008 (Bath & North East Somerset ) | | | | Membership of Professional Bodies | Green Arts Network member, Associate of Contented Ltd. | | | | Public Liability Insurance: | Yes |
| | Recent Work: | | Organisation | Contact | Date Completed | Description | | Warminster Writer's Group | Alan Shephard | June 2008 | CONNECTING WITH THE NATURAL WORLD - an eco-writing workshop. Using a series of poems that I brought in, we explored our own relationships with animals and plants and how these relationships are conditioned by our own perspectives and beliefs about the natural world.
We also explored some images of the Earth taken from Space, and used all of this as a springboard for writing poems or short prose pieces using non-human voices. Outcomes for participants were new perspectives on their relationship with the natural world and greater confidence about exploring different voices in their writing. | | Bristol Festival of Nature/Green Arts Network | Jim O'Shaughnessy/Angela Congedo | June 2008 | FESTIVAL OF NATURE ARTS TENT – supported by an Arts Council grant via Festival of Nature, I was part of a small team of Green Arts Network artists and crafts people offering an interactive & playful zone where visitors (adults and children) could become engaged with the natural world through art.
My specific input was offering a space filled with natural objects (leaves, wild flowers, stones, feathers) and ways of engaging with them – hand lenses, identification books etc – as well as materials for creating both visual and written responses to them, which were ‘framed’ and displayed in ‘Mother Nature’s Gallery’ for later collection. Outcomes were a gallery full of beautiful pictures and poems; some participants were highly engaged with the natural objects and hand lenses; and others had the opportunity, sometimes for the first time, to creatively express the importance of the natural world in their lives. | | Begbrook Primary School/Green Arts Network | Caroline Yuill/Jim O'Shaughnessy | November 2007 | ECOPOETRY WORKSHOP AT THE TREE PARTY, VICTORIA PARK, BRISTOL, AND TWO OUTREACH WORKSHOPS ON ‘ENVIRONMENT AND WRITING: TREES’ AT BEGBROOK PRIMARY SCHOOL, BRISTOL. The Tree Party was a day-long event funded by the BBC Breathing Spaces campaign, Bristol City Council and Natural England to engage with families in their local park and support a tree-planting project.
I was part of a team of Green Arts Network artists offering activities. My input involved tree/leaf identification and the facilitation of small pieces of writing/poetry inspired by trees, which were then displayed around a tree-trunk with colourful ribbons.
As part of the project’s outreach I also visited two Year 4 classes at Begbrook Primary School to contribute to their ‘Environment and Writing’ week, led by Caroline Yuill, who teaches Global Citizenship and French. Creating a Nature table in the classroom, with which children were able to interact, I facilitated sessions in which I read the class a poem about a tree and then used this and other materials to explore the role of trees in ecosystems and our own relationship with trees. This culminated with the children writing poems about trees, which were later developed by the class teacher and illustrated for display as part of Environment Week. |
| | Personal Statement: | A professional poet and children’s author, my approach is one which upholds the role of creativity in envisioning and developing sustainable change. My practice is informed by a mode of action enquiry, whereby both my own learning and that of others is continually appraised, with dialogue and other forms of interaction putting the needs of participants (children and adults) at the centre of my focus.
My perspective on the world is inspired by ecology and holistic visions of interconnection, interdependence and collaboration.
Shared eARTh Learning – art at the heart of learning about our big home and the global dimension of our lives in schools and the community
I offer tailor-made sessions from a programme of activities which include:
Exploration of climate change and other local/global environmental issues through creative/interactive means – e.g. ecopoetry; participatory theatre; story; collage/sculpture with recycled/found materials/willow; handmade books; digital photography etc.
Development of ecological awareness/ecoliteracy through Nature/wild foods walks combined with creativity. |
| | Reference 1: | Jim O'Shaughnessy
Chair/Co-ordinator of Green Arts Network
Green Arts Network
43 Allington Road
Bedminster
Bristol
BS3 1PT
07722 633 899
jim.os@blueyonder.co.uk |
| | Reference 2: | Caroline Yuill
Primary teacher
Begbrook Primary School
16 Cotham Road South
Bristol
BS6 5TZ
07793 986 929
caryuill53@hotmail.com |
| | Attachments: | Helen Moore CV -  download
Creating Simple Handmade Books -  download
Meeting the Arctic Animals change communication activity - download
Shared Earth Learning - download
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