ActionSpace artist Declan Leslie selected to be a co-workshop leader at Camden Art Centre
ActionSpace artist Declan Leslie was selected as one of the new co-workshop leaders on Camden Art Centre‘s SEN Schools Programme. Delcan is joined by artists Lucie Macgregor and Tom James as co-workshop leaders from 2022 – 2024. The artists meet weekly to plan and deliver a programme of workshops for local SEN Schools.
Declan is the third artist ActionSpace has supported to work with Camden Art Centre as a co-workshop leader on their SEN Schools Programme. His recruitment in October 2022 continues ActionSpace’s successful partnership with Camden Art Centre to improve access and opportunities to the arts for learning disabled artists and to increase participation, education and training opportunities.
Den
Den is a year long project between Declan Leslie, Lucie Macgregor and Tom James working in collaboration with students from Swiss Cottage School and The Village School, exploring natural resources, waste materials and the idea of shelter.
Focussing on play, process and learning together the programme will culminate in an exhibition at Camden Art Centre in Summer 2024 expanding on ideas discovered and works created together through the year.
In the first term of the project participants were introduced to the Drawing Studio and the garden at Camden Art Centre and inducted to their role as artists. The workshops included mapping the centre and their places within it, foraging for materials to make ink from, making charcoal (with fire!) and creating large collaborative canvases painted with the foraged and formed materials.
Image: Artists (left to right) Lucie Macgregor, Declan Leslie and Tom James at Camden Art Centre
