I have considerable experience of designing inspiring, accessible and creative interpretation across a variety of media, including text panels, paper gallery trails, downloadable classroom resources, audio visual content, websites, session/website plans and physical interactives. Please don’t hesitate to talk to me about your next project, whatever its size.
Elaine Evans Archaeology Gallery
I was commissioned to write and design a series of simple in-gallery resources for children and families visiting the new Elaine Evans Archaeology Gallery at Brighton Museum. The new permanent gallery is a pioneering exploration of Brighton from the Ice Age to the Anglo Saxons which focuses on seven forensically accurate 3D facial reconstructions revealing…
Kingston RPM: Records, People & Music
I have both a cat and a son named after David Bowie(!) so was just a little bit excited to be approached for some involvement in a project exploring the musical heritage of Kingston-upon-Thames, home to the legendary first outing of Ziggy Stardust at the Toby Jug Pub. The Kingston RPM project brought this heritage…
Westbury Manor Museum
I was brought on board as part of the team responsible for developing the on site schools offer for the recently re-opened Westbury Manor Museum in Fareham. We ended up developing five hands-on backpack resources differentiated for use with both KS1 and 2 – Be an Archaeologist, Be a Detective, Be a Breadwinner, Be an…
Volk’s Electric Railway
As a long term fan of the Volk’s Electric Railway on Brighton Seafront I was delighted to be appointed alongside my inquisite colleague Su Hepburn to lead on the schools offer as part of HLF supported redevelopment programme. We started from a blank slate and ended up developing a comprehensive offer for mainstream and SEND…
Dr Blighty
I was recently approached by London-based arts organisation Nutkhut to translate the wonderful work they did as part of Brighton Festival 2016 into a legacy document for teachers. It was one of the stand out events at last year’s festival and you couldn’t move in Brighton for people talking about it: as part of the…
Constable and Brighton
I was recently asked by the Royal Pavilion & Museums to oversee some audio visual content for their new Constable and Brighton exhibition, exploring the painter’s time in Brighton. The main chunk of work was a three minute film exploring the delightful coincidence that exhibition curator Peter Harrap now lives (and paints!) in the very house on…
‘Plug and Play’ Prehistory Resources
I didn’t know much about Archaeology when I started this project, but after making five ‘Plug and Play’ whiteboard resources for teachers exploring Brighton in the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age it’s fair to say I’m much more interested in it now! If you haven’t already you need to go and see…
Schools Resources at the V&A
The V&A is without a doubt my favourite national museum, and walking into the tiled Sculpture gallery from the underground entrance and knowing you are being paid to be there never fails to give a small thrill. I was working as a casual workshop leader there when I was approached to revamp their secondary school…
Ellie Newland 