Arts worker Profile & CV
Michele
Harris is a West Midlands based visual artist and arts worker specialising in
printmaking and drawing. She has
exhibited widely across the UK.
Michele
devises and delivers a variety of fun, friendly, experimental and informative
workshops with groups ranging from school children and mental health service
users to teachers and family groups with ages ranging from 2 to 82.
A vast range
of visual art techniques are experimented with in Michele’s workshops; printmaking
techniques include etching, lino, monoprint, collograph, quickprint, embossing
and silkscreen. Drawing techniques
include charcoal based media, conte, pencil, watercolour and paper
manipulation. Michele also has
experience with digital photography, Photoshop and Modrock sculpture.
Michele
passionately believes that empowerment through art and self expression can
change lives. She has worked alongside
art organisations including The New Art gallery Walsall, Walsall’s Creative
Development Team, Birmingham City Council, Cultural Sisters and Walsall’s Black
Sisters. She is a member of Allsorts
Collective who recently produced and delivered Artsfest 2008 family drop in
workshops.
Artsworker CV
Holds a current CRB check & 5
million pound public liability insurance
Workshop
devising and leading for The New Art Gallery Walsall
- Regular print and sculpture workshops based around
the permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. Using Drypoint etching
and various relief printing techniques, Modrock modelling, felt and
drawing materials
- School workshops for all ages
- Special needs workshops
- Professional
development sessions for teachers wanting to introduce print techniques
into the classroom.
- Adult printmaking workshops
- Family drop in sessions
Workshop devising and
leading for Birmingham City Council
- Art on the Move drop in sessions in the BCC Mobile Art Unit
- UFA family
drop- in session in the BCC Mobile Art Unit
- Birmingham School project for nursery and reception
pupils using block printing and collage on the theme of growing. Pupils explored individual and
collaborative work. key stage 1.
- Artsfest 2008 family drop in session block
printmaking workshop with Allsorts Collective
Workshop devising and
leading for other projects
- The Herbert Museum & Art Gallery, Coventry: Adult
workshop-drypoint etching for the "Through others Eyes" exhibition
- Walsall Youth Arts:Face Facts NHS anti smoking schools
project.
- Walsall Black Sisters Collective:Empowerment and
identity project with mental health group.
- Forthcoming workshop Shire Hall Gallery, Stafford: Adult print workshop for the "Images 33" exhibition
Solo Exhibitions
2010 Venue TBC, Procession
2008 Chameleon Gallery, Stages
2006/07 MAC, , Sacrifices & Wishes
2006 The Works Gallery, In Between (with Alex Everitt)
2006 Bilston Gallery, Beyond
the Reaches
Selected
Group Exhibitions *Forthcoming
*2009 The Works Gallery,
Birmingham, Winter
Salon*
2008 The Works Gallery,
Birmingham, Winter
Salon
2008 Pavillions Shopping Centre, Birmingham, Positively Red, World Aids Day Exhibition
2008 RBSA, Birmingham, Print Prize Exhibition
2006 Will’s Art
Warehouse, London,
Bliss
2006 Battersea Park,
London, AAF
2005 Nov-Dec, Colony
Gallery, Birmingham, All
at once, together, at the same time
2004/05 The New Art Gallery Walsall, 55
2001 The Royal Pump Rooms Leamington Spa,
Resonance; (judges Terry Frost & Nigel Prince)
2001 The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall Open; (judges Deborah
Robinson & Andrew Tift)
Bibliography
“Workshops
& Wishbones”, Journal, Sept 2008
“Stages”, Dave
Freak, What’s On, 3/8/2008
“Sacrifices
& Wishes”, David Baldwin, Metro,3/11/2006
“Michele
Harris: In Between the Realms of Myth & Reality”, Rachel Armstrong, Scan, Oct 2006
“Beyond the
Reaches...Michele Harris”, Michele Harris, Art
of England, Jan/Feb 2006
Awards
Birmingham
Institute of Art and Design: Michelle Knight Scholarship
Education and
professional Development
Flying Start,
Arts Facilitator training course, Birmingham City Council.
A Birmingham
City Council run accredited course for artists who want to develop workshops
& project planning and delivery skills: Course
covered Planning and preparing arts based learning programmes, delivering arts
based learning programmes, developing professional practice in the arts and
cultural industries. The course also
included a workshop delivery placement and training with Walsall Creative
Development Tea.
Exploring the
Youth Justice System: an introduction for Arts Practitioners. Arts Council
& OU
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, placement in print and drawings dept.
assisting Reyahn King; prints and drawings curator
Public access
lottery funded project at Birmingham
Museum &Art Gallery Print Room, delivering introductory sessions and facilitating
public viewings of rarely seen artworks.
B.A. (hons)
Visual Communication (illustration), BIAD, University of Central England
B Tec Foundation Art & Design,
BIAD, of Central England
Referees available on request
