Creative Education

Being a freelance creative educator usually means I go into places (like art galleries, schools, libraries and museums) and try to get people to produce creative work. Usually I'm given a brief to examine certain themes or use particular artefacts or exhibitions, and I'm usually given a timescale too. And then I plan the workshops or the residency or the course or whatever it is I'm going to be doing with the participants.

What I'm really interested in when I'm doing this kind of work is making people think about how they think.

I work with writing a lot, but I prefer to mix it with other disciplines and media; writing with unusual materials or presenting writing in unexpected ways. I love to collaborate with other artists.

Projects I've worked on range from weekly creative writing classes at a local adult education college to a summer school for eight year olds about investigating patterns in the world around us.

I consider this education work to be an integral part of my own creative practice - I am trying to discover whether it is possible to be an education artist.

Here is some more information and some external links that may be useful if you'd like a better idea of who I've worked for:

I work part-time at Brockwell Lido as the Heritage Education Co-Ordinator.
I work regularly for The British Library delivering workshops.
I've worked for The Wellcome Collection running activites for events.
I've worked for Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination in conjunction with Shape-Cambridge, MLA East of England and Refocus Cambridge. Arts Council England and Creative Partnerships helped fund two of these projects.
I worked on Ideas Factory 2005/2006 for Tate Britain.

If you would like to see my CV, please email gethan.dick at gethan.org and I will send it to you.

All text and images © Gethan Dick unless otherwise stated.