2017 Arts projects February to June

The Song Room Projects:

Rivervale Primary School:

Working with a lovely bunch of parents and a grand parent to produce another series of installations at Rivervale Primary school.
Always a joy to work with the Song Room. This project focussed on the school's commitment to being a 'safe school'

My second Song Room project was with Carson Street School. This is a small school for children with special needs.
As the projects I do for the Song Room involve an element of interactivity this school offered the opportunity to design out interactive art boards to accommodate children in wheelchairs. 

City of Gosnells Banner for St Georges Terrace:

Four schools were chosen to design the 2017 WALGA (Western Australian Local Government Association) Banner for St Georges Terrace:

 This was a fun project working with four very different ideas for the banner design! The banner finally chosen by council members was Caladenia Primary.
As all four designs are equally engaging and represent the cultural diversity of the City of Gosnells it is rewarding to know that all four banners will be on permanent display in the city!

Inter-generational Mural Project for Connect Senior's Centre with Regency College:

As part of the Town of Victoria Park Art Season 2017 the Connect Senior's Centre was awarded a grant to create a mural for the centre with the collaboration of students from Recency College.
Year 5/6 students took part in the project with members of the centre during a series of workshops. The resulting mural represented life in Victoria park across the generations.

Town of Victoria Park  Banner for St Georges Terrace 2017:

This was an interesting project which took part in the Plaza Shopping Centre over two days in Apring and involves children visiting the shopping centre. The Kids made faces and little people out of paper and these were then digitally collaged to form the final design! Approximately 60 children took part in the project.

The Victoria Park Centre for the Arts Empowerment with Art Project:

A collaborative project with Kero O'Shea ( Film maker extraordinaire)

This project was jointly funded by a Catalyst Grant from the Community Arts Network WA. The main focus  of the project was empowerment of culturally diverse members of the local community though art. 

The project had two elements:

• Creation of collaborative visual artworks for installation and permanent display at the Victoria park Centre for the Arts. These works to represent and celebrate the cultural diversity of the community.

• The recording of the process and the empowerment of participant as they told their stories on film and developed interview skills.

We experienced a number of challenges with this project initially, however once the project got off the ground some wonderful moments were recorded and beautiful artworks created by members of the local community and the students of Bentley primary school and Kent Street Senior High School.

Year 5/6 Bentley Primary School

Year 3/4 Bentley Primary School

Kent Street Senior High School Jigsaw Pieces
We are all different but we fit together to make a whole!

Artworks by members of the Victoria Park Centre for the Arts
A celebration of cultural diversity

Artworks by visiting school student from Hong Kong

Films from the project can be viewed here:

https://www.facebook.com/Charlotte.OShea.Artist/

City of Joondalup Lantern Project:

Working with four schools to make lanterns for the Joondalup Festival lantern Procession.
The lanterns were made from recycled plastic bottles, rice paper, cellophane and cane.

Francis Jordan Primary School

Francis Jordan Catholic Primary school

                                     

North of the River Home School Group

St Marks Anglican School

Joondalup Educational Support Centre

2016 continued to be a busy year!

A Few Little Bits of My Recent Art:

What Next???? 

2017 is already shaping up to be another interesting and busy year! The Joondalup Twilight Lantern Parade (part of the Joondalup Festival). Working with four school groups to make lanterns for the parade.

A Community Arts Project with the Victoria Park Centre for the Arts working with children and adults from our Culturally and Linguistically Diverse community to produce artworks which reflect their backgrounds and contribution to Australian life.

And who knows what else!!

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September / October

(Two very busy months!)

1. One single workshop at Amherst Library on the 17th September making 3D artworks with the local art group. A fun morning which resulted in the creation of some radical artworks!!

The artworks were pre-prepared as 3 hour workshops do not allow for creation from scratch the base structures are made from board, newspaper and plastic milk containers.

Decoration by collage with art papers and Posca pens.

September /October

2.  Working with two groups of artists with disabilities for AS WE ARE  http://asweare.com.au/

These were challenging and inspirational and fun workshops. I had the privilege of working with two groups of people with incredible challenges and some remarkable artistic talents!

The workshops took place over 8 weeks one group worked on abstract painting, drawing and collage, they produced some remarkable artworks. This group of wonderful artists had many challenges yet they produced wonderfully colourful and detailed artworks.

The second group worked on 3d artworks using recycled materials and lots of other bits and pieces. They were a very lively bunch and made Thursday afternoons a real joy!

3. Another project with The Song Room at Kewdale Primary School. Creating a series of photo boards for the school grounds with parents, friends and ex students of Kewdale Primary.  

Another lively bunch of participants with some very interesting ideas! 

Mid June

   

A new venture for me and my husband Kero O'Shea! We were off to work together on a joint project for Awesome Arts at Coolgardie Primary School.

Coolgardie is located approx 550Km east of Perth in the Goldfields. The school has an enrollment of over 40 students years 1-6 we saw 35 students during our residency. The school serves a large catchment area and many of the children were from Aboriginal families.The school has issues with regular attendance and literacy. The project was sponsored by Healthway.

This was a challenging and most enjoyable project we worked in tandem:

• I made hand puppets with the kids  using plastic bottles and art materials. The children were fun to work with and very artistic. Their puppets were unique and innovative.

  

•  Kero is a skilled film maker. His objectives  by way of the "Art of Voice" project were to draw out the students' voices through the proxies of their puppets and by teaching them how to use a video camera and how to be filmed. The students developed confidence speaking to the camera and interviewing each other on film. One of the students interviewed the school principal at the final celebration event of the residency.

 Our Residency culminated with an exhibition and demonstration of the created artworks to an audience of parents staff and friends. Fresh fruit and vegetables were served kn keeping with the values of Healthway.