About me
With a strong passion for the arts and wellbeing, combined with platforming underrepresented and marginalised groups, I have facilitated/produced a diverse range of creative projects with a focus on emerging talent, multi-disciplinary art/music and interactive innovation and healing, collaborating on exhibitions, workshops and events with a wide range of like-minded organisations and institutions.
Projects
Skills
- Digital Arts
- Visual Art
- Workshop Facilitation
- Teaching Facilitation
- Public Health
- Art Education
- Charity Work
- Enterpreneurship
- Music Composition
- Music Artwork
Education
Bachelor of Arts (Hons) Psychosocial StudiesGoldsmiths, University of London
- London, United Kingdom
♢ Multidisciplinary degree (BA Hons) integrating psychology and sociology, as well as, evidence-based research within clinical work, psychological, psychoanalytical and expressive therapies and mental health.
♢ The psychosocial framework coincided with an emphasis on expressive therapies provided an understanding of the self, psyche and and society in a variety of settings (educational, therapeutic), including environments that engage with vulnerable and marginalised individuals and groups.
♢ The expressive components equipped me with a range of transferrable skills in reflexive observation and writing, somatic and creative expression as a tool for mental health.
♢ Additionally furthering knowledge and skills within qualitative and quantitative analytical research, data handling and interpretation (SPSS), critical evaluation, report writing, presentation and IT literacy.
♢ Activities: Volunteered 300 + hours for an educational mental health social enterprise charity and created welfare protocols for an annual autonomous art exhibition.
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Diploma Art and DesignAra Institute of Technology
- Christchurch, New Zealand
♢ Enhanced creative skills and established myself as an arts practitioner.
♢ Developed technical and cognitive skills required as an artist and designer.
♢ Gained core skills in areas such as drawing, printmaking and sculpture in a range of materials. Additionally, furthering familiarity with using computers for creative work using Adobe Creative Suite software.
♢ Studied art history alongside the background in the socio-cultural history of creative practices, insights into contemporary professional ethics and bi-cultural issues (Māori/white European New Zealand).
♢ Activities: Volunteered 100+ as a tattoo apprentice in a tattoo studio
Awards
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BronzeThe Duke of Edinburgh Award
Skill - developing existing talents or trying something new.
(Piano and Singing)
Volunteering - helping someone, your community or the environment.
(Carer for Elderly at Elmslie Care Home)
Physical - becoming fitter through sport, dance or fitness activities.
(Dancing: participated in Stage Challenge Dunedin, NZ)
Expedition - planning, training for and completing an adventurous journey.
(Trekked The Caples and Greenstone Track in Queenstown, NZ)