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Managing decor team of 8 designers, makers, artists and volunteers and participating in regular meetings with directors during lead in, set up and take down. Praised for high quality work during long days on site.Developing plans and time scales for project. Adapting to challenges and the unexpected and adjusting team plan to execute project to high standard.Booking and curating the visual artists area DeStabilise including Jimmy Cauty (KLF) drawing on contacts and current artist knowledge.Developing broken down psychedelic fairground theme and designing, building and hand painting props and decor.Working within the social media team and assisting in growth of page from 200 - to over 2000 likes. Media interest and participation feedback on this new festival has been fantastic, with features media outlets including Vice and paid cooperative membership up by a third. Feedback immensely positive on the visual arts offering, with subsequent requests to work on partner organisations Cosmic Trigger and Milk the Cow’s decor and coordination teams.

Developing engagement programmes and building collaborative relationships to support the design, development and delivery of STAF’s innovative and boundary breaking engagementwork.

London, United Kingdom

Nationwide

Finding and developing ongoing relationships with relevant organisations and community groups. Devising participatory design sessions to facilitate creative community engagement for regeneration projects.Facilitating events, workshops and community design sessions. Collating data and report writing.

Operating as a central hub of this dispersed group. Supporting international academics and others working with the cluster.Organising large scale events.Running the cluster’s social media and updating their website.Promotional materials design, copy writing and distribution, leading to well attended events. Supporting in the production of documents, and audio visual presentations for the cluster. Assisting team in development of proposals.Database operation and management.Budgets, payment of invoices, financial coordination.Member and Research contributor to Centre for Research in Spatial, Environmental and Cultural Politics

London, United Kingdom

Interpreting Director’s instructions and input from stage manager to design and make a collection of props for this play within a play, including a 1970s computer from the future and extending periscopes. Props were required to work in the round, and last for a 23 night run, including objects which transform, move and light up, utilising mechanical elements and electrics. Developing drawings, making macquettes, building finished pieces.Making in theatre workshop, cooperating with wider prop making team, adapting props to needs of actors and team as rehearsals progress.Creating using plastics, wood, cardboard, foam and fabrics.Managing own budget for props.

Brighton, United Kingdom

Working under Director and Lead Artist to create props and costumes including 2m high Mayan relief work panels and mythical beasts Quetzacoatal and coyote trickster. Tight budget, high impact production.Working as member of large prop making team.

Brighton, United Kingdom

Working as a freelance designer and event coordinator working alongside co-director.Team working with venue technicians and staff, artists, performers and directors.Responsible for own workload, arranging time scales in a systematic manner and completing work accurately and to schedule with minimal supervision.Designing content for events and workshops. Sketching, physical model making, graphic presentations and construction.Co writing successful funding applications and reports.Assisting in programming and reaching out to artists.Operating as first line of communication with artists.Efficient set up, running, and take down of events.

London, United Kingdom

Designer and Sales. Designing collection working closely with design manager, sourcing and selecting fabrics and attending trade shows, communicating with stockists and suppliers, hand painting and embellishing fine fabrics garments and homeware, sample garment construction.

I am a print textile / fashion designer who works for myself and other companies I am excited by. With a strong focus on colour, I love to produce fun loving designs with a difference.I am skilled in the use of both Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, creating all over and placement prints, and garment shapes. I can work to brief and according to trends and brand identity, whilst keeping my signature style.

Responsible for giving excellent customer service to large scale buyers and personal customers as a professional face of the business.Running stand at sales events, interacting with customers and understanding their requirements whilst explaining the work of the label.Understanding customers’ needs, communicating them to the team, and impacting design and business decisions under the Head of Design and Director.Responsible for own workload, meeting deadlines and objectives for a fast moving organisation. Co-ordinating administration for shows and events, working with the director to timetable and meeting project deadlines.Designing collection working closely with design managerSocial media including Facebook and Twitter, report drafting, press releases.

Master Of Arts (Ma), Interior Design, Merit

Activities and Societies: Architectural Lecture Society, Class Representative, Design workshops in Milan, Istanbul and BeijingDeveloped.

Ba 2/1 Hons. Print Textile Design, Print Textile Design