Projects...
Elaine has worked on an array of creative projects with different schools, communities and organisations. From delivering workshops, demonstrations and presentations to creating textile characters of all shapes and sizes, curating exhibitions and developing new ways of working during artist residencies and research awards.
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You can browse the galleries of some of these past projects below.
If you would like to find out more or have an idea for a project you'd like to work on with Elaine, she'd love to hear from you.
Please get in touch to enquire.​​
Elaine has delivered a wide range of creative art workshops to participants of all ages and abilities, working with different schools, organisations and charities. From puppets to pom poms, sea sculptures to art dolls, masks to clay printing and much more, each session allows for lots of playing and experimenting with a range of different processes and materials.
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Elaine also runs textile themed workshops from her studio at Deemouth Artist Studios for up to 4 participants as well as offering one to one tuition sessions, supporting individuals to create their own textile characters and art dolls from their designs and drawings.
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Workshops
North East Culture Collective
Fit Like Family Wellbeing
Elaine facilitated 1:1 and group creative sessions in partnership with the Fit Like Family Wellbeing Service in Aberdeen during this 18 month long project. With a focus on improving mental health and wellbeing through the provision of creative experiences, Elaine focussed on the individual needs, interests and desires of the children, young people and families she was working with, allowing for lots of exploring and experimenting with different creative art, design and craft techniques and materials.
Elaine has worked with different schools, creating sculptural textile characters that represent different themes and values that are important to each individal school. During these projects she Involved pupils in the design process and supported students to take part in some of the different techniques involved in the construction of the characters. Using photography as a tool to document the different stages of each project, the creative journey of each character can be shared in the form of a visual presentation at the end of each project.
Characters for Schools
A Creative Journey
Around the World
Youth Arts Practitioner Award
In partnership with Scotland’s National Children’s Charity Children First, Elaine collaborated with a musician and a hip hop artist, facilitating a summer programme of outdoor creative arts experiences for children and families with a focus on improving mental health and wellbeing in response to the effects COVID 19.
Flora the Foggy Bummer
Elaine was commissioned to make a large scale bee character to promote the publication release of Doric children’s book ‘Flora the Foggy Bummer Meets The Foostie- McNastys’ by author and graphic designer Karen Barrett-Ayres.
Elaine co-designed and delivered this creative art project inspired by the concept of ‘yarn bombing’ while collaborating with a primary school teacher. The aim of the project was to support skills development between artists and teachers. Involving students across all year groups of a primary school in Aberdeen, pupils and their families were invited to make pom poms at home to form part of an immersive outdoor installation. Working with small groups, Elaine and the teacher supported students to engage and work together in wrapping different coloured and textured yarn around trees in the surrounding area and including the pom poms to create a temporary colourful installation for all to enjoy..
Collaborate|Educate
Elaine’s solo exhibition - Smile - at Seventeen Gallery in Aberdeen, showcased over 30 soft sculptural characters that she recreated from children's drawings. Submitted by students from local primary schools, the drawings depicted people or things that made the children smile. Elaine captured the beautiful naivety, charm and imagination present in the original drawings, creating an exhibition that celebrated the playful world of textiles and the joyful and endearing innocence and honesty of childhood.
Smile
