make

Led by artist Amy Leung, this make session invites teachers to re-imagine and respond to the architecture of our teaching and learning environments, and explore what happens when we invite our students to do so too.

We will draw and make installations using a variety of simple materials, including tin foil, string, paper, wax, fabric, tape, clay, tracing paper and light.

Through these explorations, we will reflect on how bodies and materials shape space and meaning, whilst learning practical methods to encourage creative thinking and making in the classroom.

About the facilitator

Amy Leung is a London-based artist who works with children and young people in museums, galleries and schools. She works in social care, healthcare, with early years, in schools and with SEND groups. Together they make sculptures, drawings, installations and interventions. Material exploration and playing collaboratively are key to her practice, with ideas emerging through making together.

Previous projects have focused on themes of: co-designing and co-creating play spaces, transitions, craft and objects and an experimental studio with Early Years. Amy has previously worked with Camden Art Centre, Firstsite, the Royal Academy and South London Gallery. She has an MA in Art and Design in Education from the IOE, UCL.

About make

Held every half-term, make is a workshop series for teachers to come together and explore hands-on creative approaches in their classrooms. Each session focuses on a different technique or medium, encouraging material experimentation and the development of practical skills that can be applied in the classroom.

Aimed at those teaching and training to teach in primary and secondary schools, make is an invitation to explore, collaborate, learn new skills through making and discover your own artistic practice through material enquiry.