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Creative ID: 292

Art form(s): Community arts, Crafts/objects, Multi-disciplinary, Pacific arts, Visual arts
Language(s): English
Based in: Marlborough
Where I'm available:
Marlborough
Picton and Blenheim. Could travel to Kaikoura or Nelson but that would take some planning.
When I'm available: I am open to discussion on this. I’m working part-time as a community Navigator and studying art but there is room for such an important project. Please contact me to discuss. You will find me a problem solver and creative thinker.

My arts or creative practice (including details about my specific focus within that art form/practice and my strengths)

Hi, I’m a qualified ESOL Adult and Young Pearson’s Tutor and have been working in two colleges these last four years. I just trained as a youth worker, self-funded and am a home-studio potter. I’m studying Level 4 Creativity DD and work part-time as a Community Navigator at the Marlborough Multicultural Centre in Blenheim. It is my ambition to start a Youth Art programme in our Picton community, plus introduce Art therapy at home for those with high levels of anxiety. I have been a volunteer for many years but also worked as a private paid tutor. My last was a clinical psychologist from Brazil over Christmas. I make terracotta cookware, tapas dishes. Promoting eating in our wine region! I guess. I’m not thinking about sculpture just yet but would like to help youth learn how to express themselves without judgement but still learning discipline and routine. I’m hoping to approach the local marae about using their neutral space and possibly arranging an exhibition there from the youths' work so everyone is involved.

My track record of experience and success - or the track record of experience and success of the creative or artist that I will partner with

Currently, I am thinking about including a Māori musician/drug rehabilitation counsellor. I think we would work very well together and we have discussed my ideas and how it would work. He is working as an essential worker at the moment and not available until August, and would need a Police vetting check also. I have been a host parent to international students and worked in schools and with Marlborough Youth Trust.

Describe the experience you have had working with children or young people, teaching or facilitating creative processes

I have been working as an adult and young person's tutor for over 20 years. I have worked at colleges. I qualified as a Youth worker and Traveller's facilitator last year. I have used creativity in many ways, from cooking, painting, and music . Anything extra I do in my lunch hour and often self-fund . The local manager of St Vincent de Paul has called on me to help with community issues. I organised a mufti day to raise food for our foodbank two years running plus an international young migrant week after the Christchurch shootings. This week I was approached by a school counsellor to help with a young Chinese 15-year-old boy who won’t attend school. I have purchased paper and art pads. We spoke and drew a large visual map as to what was good at school and what wasn’t. He is full of grief and anxiety. I will go with the counsellor next week to see what both his mother and himself have drawn in the visual diaries I gave them. I said no words, just pictures. We will take it from there.

Why I want to be part of the Creatives in Schools programme and how my involvement will link to my creative practice

I think I have explained it as above in my comments. When I was young I lived in the heart of Auckland city with a solo parent who had mental health issues. From the age of 15, I was alone and living on Waiheke Island. I walked up to the school and enrolled myself. Such a long and windy road. I have been the best mother to my two daughters. One is a surgical registrar, the other a young professional. My creative practice is about creating resilience and acceptance and moving forward.

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