Since 2006 I’ve been planning and delivering Create Comics sessions for schools, galleries, museums, libraries and community groups across the country. These workshops empower participants with the basic skills required to then produce their own comics on any theme, topic or issue, be it History, Science or French in school, or a social, political or local issue that directly affects them.
SELECTED PROJECTS
2006 City College Manchester ESOL group. Worked alongside EAL staff to produce drawn and written depictions of the students experiences as recent immigrants.
2007 Community Comics - Moss Side Responses to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation Social Cohesion Report, for the Policy Studies Institute. Created comics with 3 separate youth groups and 1 older adults group, depicting how they feel about changes in their area, it’s perceived problems and poor media reputation.
2008 Lead educator for the Arts Council touring comics and art exhibition Cult Fiction. Walsall, Leeds and Carlisle.
2009 to 2013 Lead artist Creative Consultants group at Manchester Art Gallery. Ongoing initiative allowing young people’s input into the gallery’s exhibitions and interpretation.
2016 The Danny family trail, Daniel Adamson Preservation Society.
2017 Hadrian’s Cavalry Comic for Northumberland National Parks Authority and Minerva Heritage
Ongoing and occasional projects for Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People, Minerva Heritage, Leeds Libraries, ArtForms Leeds, The Ark PRU, Whitefield, Barton Moss Secure Care Unit Salford, Adolescent Mental Health groups in Wigan, Bolton, Manchester and Westhoughton, 1 and 2 day Comics Masterclasses for children, teens and adults, professional development sessions for school teachers and librarians, and regular Artist In Schools sessions for Manchester Art Gallery.
Since 2009 Visiting Lecturer at Leeds Metropolitan University Art Foundation and Fine Art BA, Camberwell college of the Arts Illustration BA, Goldsmiths London Fine Art BA, University of Central Lancashire Illustration BA, Graphic Storytelling BA, Viborg, Denmark.
2017 to present - External Examiner Cartoon & Comic Art, Staffordshire University.