Education

"Miss Melon", a leading lady in the cast of the fruit and veg theatre which performed recently during Liverpool University's Capital of Culture 08 celebrations.

Little Hayes Nursery School, Bristol

For the past three years I have been artist in residence at Little Hayes Nursery School funded by Creative Partnerships.

During this time I have worked one day a week with both staff and children exploring creativity in the whole school environment.

The drawings in this book reflect and describe the activities which took place during the creative partnership of artist Rodney Harris and Little Hayes Nursery School during the 2005/06 academic year. The inspiration for the book came from the Goat Island Performance Groups published book “Schoolbook 2”, which suggests we “Keep a kind of journal you’ve never kept before” . This idea clarified my desire to document what went on during the residency in a way that did not involve writing a dry evaluation text, but to produce a book which people might want to use as inspiration in engaging young children in creative play. Following a conversation with Dr Nick Clough from Bristol University about the collaboration he suggested that I was creating the format within which open ended creative activity of many different sorts might happen. What follows are some ideas for different formats.

Sausages

http://www.little_hayes_n@bristol-city.gov.uk

Janet Duke Junior School, Basildon

A short term residency where in collaboration with other artists we developed and installed Earthworks.

Take Art Somerset's Rural Arts Development Agency

Clay workshops with both staff and children.

http://www.takeart.org

Gloucestershire Creativity Course

In collaboration with the Early Years Unit I have delivered teacher training in Creativity for Early Years Staff.

Sir John Soane Museum, London

I devised a series of workshops with families who live within the Lincolns Inn Fields area of London exploring and demystifying some of the objects found in the museum.

A plaster cast of a relief sculpture found in the museum and which we studied with other the other objects.

A detail of an architectural clay slab being carved to copy a relief sculpture found in the museum