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lush life art productions linda cairnes producer and maker of celebratory arts

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Background: Australian born and educated, Linda has lived in UK since 1972, working as a designer, painter and illustrator. She exhibited her paintings in London for several years and co-managed an Art Gallery, in Chelsea, for 4 years. She designed a large range of wildlife greetings cards, which sold internationally. Linda also designed for the pottery industry in Stoke on Trent for several years.

Since the early 90’s she has worked as an artist/maker/project director working in the community, on a broad range of celebratory arts projects; creative consultation and issue based work, whilst continuing to paint. She also sings in acappella groups in both Sydney and UK

Linda believes the Arts should be accessable to all. She feels there are still not enough serious platforms for the ‘minorities’ in the arts and hopes to participate in the process of change. Linda feels there is an artist in all of us, whatever our percieved abilities or disabilities. Community Arts, and Consultation in the Community (using the creative arts), is a positive way of working towards that change. Linda has worked with large local authorities, departments of education, arts and other voluntary sector organisations all over the UK. She has broad experience of project directing large community arts events. Linda’s interests are social exclusion, racial equality, gender equality,urban regeneration, health issues and the way that participatory arts can express these issues within the framework of community building.

Training

2006/ to 2011 backwards and forwards from uk to australia; writing and research

2005/ 2^nd visit to Japan and also Australia.Oct04 Visit to Japan to study calligraphy and look at Japanese Arts and Crafts.2003. Training in felting, and weaving. Digital Photography and digital manipulation.Oct/Nov 02. training in Child protection and Domestic Abuse.Cheshire C Council Sept/Jan02/03 and ongoing. S.Chesh.Coll.Training in counselling skills @ Level 2.May/June/July02 training for artists and professionals, working with young people.Jan96/Nov97: HND’Arts Work In Community’ City College Manchester.Distinctions. Feb97: Nice,France: Course and conference on Carnival Arts March97: Vallencia,Spain. Study the Large Street Sculptures (Fallas) and Pyrotechnics.Feb95: Stoke Museum. Artists working with the Media’March 95: Conference. Community Arts in the 90’s. Bristol Uni.June 95: Manchester Uni. Course in Basket making with Sculptural and Environmental Art ApplicationsOct95: Welfare State International. Course in ’Arts in the Environment’Jan94: Manchester City of Drama. Gigante making course with Spanish Catalonian artists.Feb94: Beavers Arts. Rural Arts Course.Jan93: Stoke Museum. 6 week Disability Awareness Arts Course and placement.Dec93: Venice Italy.With Keele Uni studying Art and Architecture.April90: Tuscany,Italy. 2 week course with Art Education in Cheshire.Sydney 70:equiv Alevels in English,Art, Science, History. Awarded Commonwealth Scholarship.....More below

Skills.

Extensive experience in creative arts consultation, production and direction of community projects and event management, performance / installation.

Painting,illustration,sculpture,photography both film and digital,video,large processional imagery,Giant puppet making, mask work, banner making, costume, lantern making., computer graphics, and many other workshop techniques.

Experienced with working with all age groups. Trained in Disability Awareness.

Worked extensively with disenfranchised communities within urban regeneration schemes in stressed communities throughout the UK. Manchester, Liverpool,Telford, StokeonTrent, Newcastle under Lyme, Oxford, Milton Keynes, Hereford

Played with samba/percussion bands in Manchester.

Has belonged to a cappella singing groups The Loudmouth Women in the UK,The Spots, Glory Bound Groove Train Gospel, and The OverCommitments all in Sydney

Clean driving licence, drives small vans, travel almost anywhere. UK CRB Police checked for working with the vulnerable ( this means one has clearance)