Profile: Lucia Harley
Lucia is an artist who works in various media, the outcomes often being floor drawings and installation work. She has a First Class Hons degree in Fine Art (Sculpture and Time-based Media) from Wolverhampton, (including a year studying at Sao Paulo University, Brazil), and a PGCE in Secondary Art and Design from Goldsmiths.
She has been running creative workshops with all ages for 15 years, as well as a stint in teaching at Secondary level. Over the last few years she has also worked with Foreground Projects on developing innovative education and outreach happenings, most recently on the Primary Capital Programme Commission project with Olivia Plender at Easton Primary School, Bristol. She also worked alongside ‘Instructions for a Modern Utopia’ in 2014.
She has worked with artists and curators including: Michael Dean, Bob and Roberta Smith, Edwina Ashton, Simon and Tom Bloor (Foreground), Simon Morissey and Tabitha Clayson.
She has created a huge kinetic sculpture with children for Black Swan Arts, Frome, and worked as a project artist with Spaeda, the arts education development agency for Somerset, for example creating installation work with young people at Barrington Court for the National Trust, and devising creative curricular inset training for teachers.
Lucia’s first input into the Break 3 programme was as curator of the hugely popular Puzzle and Play installation and activity programme at Rook Lane Chapel in October 2011.
More recently she has been exploring and stretching literacy by taking it outdoors with the ‘Words in the Woods’ den; an Awards for All funded project with Rode First Methodist school.
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