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It’s National Insect Week! 🐛🐞🐜

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To celebrate this National Insect Week, Year 8 pupils from New Mills School have been busy creating drawings inspired by last week’s virtual trip to the Manchester Museum’s Beauty and the Beasts… Falling in love with insects exhibition:

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Here are a few awesome museum specimen drawings that have been submitted so far:

I am looking forward to receiving more of these gorgeous specimen drawings! Currently I have been spending the last couple of days observing and rescuing(!) Peacock Butterfly caterpillars who are on the move from the nettles next door… Here is a lovely little poem that sums up this week perfectly:

ACE Wild about Ceramics UPDATE!

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Wow it has been such a busy couple of months! I have finally updated all the sections under the “Wild about Ceramics 2019” heading (at the top of the screen)… Pages include info and images about: the ceramics the pupils have made, the NGS weekend, the after-school staff clay session, the RHS Tatton garden AND the recent trip to the Manchester Museum!!! During the summer holidays I shall be busy ensuring as much clay work gets fired as possible, in time for the September New Mills Arts Trail…

Here are pages from the New Mills School July Newsletter that feature what I have been doing at school. Entire Newsletter can be read here: https://www.newmillsschool.co.uk/assets/Uploads/Downloads/Newsletter-July-2019.pdf

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ACE “Wild about Ceramics” Residency 2019

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Very exciting news to announce – I have been accepted as an artist-in-residence at New Mills School! Arts Council England have granted me funding for the project “Wild about Ceramics”: the pupils from the school will explore themes of declining wildlife, through ceramics and mixed-media. These workshops will culminate in artwork being displayed in the gardens and exhibited throughout 2019.

This project uses the art of clay to engage young people with issues of ecology and biodiversity. My ceramics exhibition “APOIDEA”, installed at Manchester Museum, is the starting inspiration; it is displayed alongside museum specimens and artefacts, and part of a digital VR experience of how an Orchid Bee pollinates plants. I will be in residence with New Mills School, working with students, art and science teachers, and the school gardening group, exploring the exhibition’s themes of declining wildlife, whereby I will be renewing ceramic practice within the school. Additionally, I will be working alongside the school’s John Muir Award project, and with the RHS Tatton Park Garden project….

…… so a very busy year ahead – and watch this space for updates!

APOIDEA at The Manchester Museum

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I am very pleased to announce that APOIDEA (2013) has been invited back to the Manchester Museum! Displayed alongside museum specimens and artefacts, and part of a Virtual Reality experience where members of the public can participate in how a Orchid Bee pollinates plants.

On display now, on the Third Floor above Nature’s Library.

Opening times:
Monday – Wednesday 10am – 5pm
Thursday 10am – 9pm
Friday 10am – 5pm
Saturday & Sunday 10am – 5pm

Manchester Museum, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL