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Sarah Butterworth - Artist - Workshop Leader - Creator of Giants -

  

What you see here is a collection of my artwork stretching from now back to the dim and distant past of 1994. Amongst it are treasures created by children in my workshops, or collaborations with other artists.

 

Having worked under the name Emerald Ant for 7 years, I recently gathered together kindred souls to form a Community Interest Company, "dedicated to engaging family audiences in their local history and heritage through exciting art and giant spectacle".

 

Emerald Ant's most well known project is Horace the Travelling Pliosaur Cinema. Horace was created in 2012 and has toured the UK since, performing at Glastonbury Festival, Larmer Tree, Latitude, as well as Lyme Regis and Yorkshire Fossil Festivals, and the Horniman Museum in London. He has been described as "immersive street theatre at it's very best" (www.festivalkidz.com).

 

We have a commitment to working with children and young people and run challenging projects and workshops in schools, such as building large scale work outdoors, working on historical sites and linking internationally with schools overseas.

 

Emerald Ant has created work for The National Trust, Dorset and Somerset Wildlife Trusts, Activate Performing Arts, the RSPB, Somerset Art Works, Eden Project, Forkbeard Fantasy, carnivals and lantern processions in Dorset, London, Oxford and elsewhere.

 

....Meanwhile, in the lab, dreams and explorations continue -

  

Sarah Butterworth MA

Artist and Maker

 

MA Arts in Society

Tel +44 (0)7811 950033

Email sarah@emeraldant.com

  

Horace the Travelling Pliosaur Cinema, 2012 -15

Specialist Areas

 

•Creative Director, Emerald Ant – creating large scale outdoor art and street theatre.

•Artwork for celebratory events – large scale installations, interactive artworks, scenic painting

•Carnival arts – giant puppets, lanterns, costumes

•Touring and performing street show Horace the Travelling Pliosaur Cinema (above)

•Community Artist – workshop facilitator in schools, prisons, teacher training, visiting tutor Arts University Bournemouth

•Focus on Heritage – Working with museums, The National Trust, Wildlife Trusts, National Parks

   

Marine Habitat Hat for Dorset Wildlife Trust, 2014

 

Key Arts Projects 2007-15

 

2015

 

•Lead Artist and Project Manager, Iguanodon Restaurant – A life-size dinosaur installation / street theatre piece for outdoor events. Will be toured in 2016. An Emerald Ant / Shanty Theatre collaboration working with the Friends of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs. My role: creative collaborative devising, fund raiser, programming, project manager.

•Artist, South Dorset Ridgeway, Field Days – shadow film and installation for village halls

•Maker, Snail on a Segway – for street performer

•Maker, Heron puppet and processional lantern workshops, Somerfest, Taunton

•Heritage Educator, Exmoor National Park – Research and writing schools pack to engage children in learning about a World War 2 tank training ground and radar station.

•Artist / Performer – ‘Horace the Travelling Pliosaur Cinema’ (pictured above). Horace has been touring since 2012.

    

Nutcracker Miniature Theatre, Mottisfont Abbey, 2014

2014

•Artist Maker - Mottisfont Abbey - Nutcracker Christmas Trail - Six installations: miniature theatres (above), 4’ jumping jacks, shadow puppet film, giant mouse heads. Work with engineer, film maker.

•Artist - Weymouth Victorian Night – lantern procession- Victorian Flying Machines workshops with schools.

•Artist for Somerset Art Works / RSPB – ‘Celebration of Cranes’ lantern procession– giant crane puppets, crane costumes, crane headdresses and dragonflies made with children, adults and young people.

•Artist – Inside Out Festival, Dorset – Giant white Hare on a hill, Little Bredy

•Artist – Habitat Hats, Dorset Wildlife Trust – research, making 3 hats for public to put on at events (above)

•Lead Artist and Project Manager ‘Castle in the Clouds’ – research activities and building of an illuminated Arabian castle with young people, focusing on T E Lawrence

•Artist Maker – Giant seahorse – 45 foot x 8 – commissioned by Sealife for Chinese New Year, Manchester

   

The White Hare, Inside Out Festival 2014

2013

•Artist - Bridport Museum - Dr Roberts shadow film, funded by ACE. Film at www.youtube.com/emeraldant - about a 19th century GP and inventor in Bridport, Dr Roberts. My role: schools workshops and creation of artwork.

•Artist - Vision Young People’s Theatre - Chinese New Year, Bournemouth – Workshops in schools, and giant dragon based on Chinese traditional imagery.

•Artist and Tour Organiser, ‘Horace the Travelling Pliosaur Cinema’ – Lyme Fossil Festival, Glastonbury,

•Artist, Garden Installation / tree dressing at Mottisfont Abbey, The National Trust

•Artist, Workshops, Cheney School Oxford – a 9 foot Mr Tumnus for Oxford Lite Nite lantern procession

 

2012

•Lead Artist and Project Manager, ‘Horace the Travelling Pliosaur Cinema’ - A project commissioned by the Jurassic Coast Earth Festival 2012 and performed at venues in Devon and Dorset. I initiated the project, designed, built and perform the Pliosaur, together with engineer Mike Pattison, technicians and performers.

•Artist Tutor – ‘Battle for the Winds’, Street Procession, 2012 Olympic and Paralympics Sailing events. Headresses with Arts University Bournemouth students. Galleon headdresses workshop with Forkbeard Fantasy and PETROC students.

•Lead Artist and Project Manager - Moving Tides Carnival Procession, closing the Sailing Olympics in Weymouth. Re-creating ‘Jurassic Portland’ through research activities in disused quarries, devising and building puppets and costumes with school children.

•Artist - Twin Sails Bridge Opening, Poole Lighthouse. Workshops with young people in Poole Museum, followed by the devising and creation of giant, illuminated structures for boats that were sailed under new bridge.

 

2011

•Artist and Project Manager, Research and Development, Project Pliosaur – raising funds, recruiting artists and earth scientists, liaising with festivals. We built a burakeet puppet ‘Poppy the Pliosaur’, then created and toured a street show to engage audiences in the Jurassic Coast. Horace followed in 2012.

•Presenter and Arts Trainer, Arts in Prisons, O.S. Mosty, Czech Republic – Presentation about arts in prisons in the UK, and facilitation of workshops with social workers, teachers and mentors, on using the arts with young people and prisoners

•Artist, Mural for Bridport Town Centre based on the history and architecture of the town, involving children from local primary school.

•Artist, Activate Performing Arts -‘Light on Time’ workshops with schools. Research sessions carried out in Poole Museum led by a writer. Afterwards I led workshops creating costumes and carnival artwork telling ‘the story of Poole’, followed by a processional event on Poole Quay.

    

Mural, Bridport Town Centre, 2011

 

2010

 

•Artist, Marjon College, Arrow Congress Carnival, Plymouth. Workshops with students making a giant puppet and carnival art.

•Artist and Project Manager Satellite Arts – Initiating and fundraising for projects, in particular, ‘To Market’, a project with young people celebrating town centre markets. Site based research and devising, making workshops culminated in street performances in Bridport and Weymouth.

•Art Tutor, Dartington College of Art -, devising site-based work outdoors

  

2009

•Project Manager and Artist, Anne Peaker Centre, London – All aspects of project management and working with other artists to deliver visual arts projects in HMP High Down and HMP Bronzefield

•Lead Artist and Project Manager, Maritime Monsters Carnival project, Weymouth. I wrote a successful bid to the Arts Council, planned and delivered carnival making workshops.

•Visiting Tutor, Dartington College of Art

 

2008

•Project Manager and Artist, Anne Peaker Centre, London – delivery of arts projects in prisons, evaluation, promotion

•Artist, Satellite Arts, giant processional puppets and mask workshops

•Artist / Tutor Portland YOI - Street Art Project, variety of arts teaching young offenders, particular focus on murals

•Lead Artist, Armada on the Esplanada, Weymouth College – carnival art based on the Spanish Armada, schools workshops

 

2007

•Project Manager and Evaluator, Anne Peaker Centre for Arts in Criminal Justice, London; arts projects in prisons

•Project Manager/Fundraiser and Artist Satellite Arts, Weymouth

•Research and Documentation, Oxford Research International, Bosnia / Germany; qualitative research and report writing for the UNDP

•Evaluation / Documentation - Emergency Exit Arts; London, evaluation of ‘Parenting Power’ projects in children’s centres, and EEA’s work in Coldbath and Orchard Estates, Lewisham

  

Employment History pre 2005

 

•2005 -6Artist, Emergency Exit Arts, London – workshops in schools,

•2005- 6Planning and Development Officer, Family Support, Social Services, London Borough of Bromley

•2004 Project Manager, Creative Activities Project, Bam, Iran, World Vision

•2002-3Regional Manager Balkans, Creative Activities, War Child Netherlands, based in Bosnia and Kosovo

•2000-2Arts Development Officer, Weymouth and Portland, Dorset

•1999-0Project Manager, Action Van Project, Children’s Aid Direct, based in Macedonia

•1997-8Project Coordinator, Crossing Borders, Council for Education in World Citizenship, in UK, Bosnia, Romania, a schools linking project running joint arts projects

•1994-6Arts Workshop Leader, refugee and collective centres, Serious Road Trip, based in Bosnia (voluntary work)

 

Education / Training

•Landmark Advance 2011

•Safeguarding and the Arts (Code 1717), February 2010, updated training in child protection

•Forkbeard Fantasy – Puppetry and Automata course, Feb 2010 and 2008, Summer School 2008

•Koestler Trust, Arts Mentoring for people leaving prison, 2009

•Landmark Forum 2010

•Certificate in Carnival Crafts Level 2, Weymouth College, (delivered course as well as completed it), 2009

•Emergency Exit Arts – introduction to welding, puppet building, 2009

•MA Politics, Integration and Security in Eastern Europe, UCL, 2004-6

•Serbian, UCL, 2004 -5

•MA Arts in Society, Gloucestershire University, 2001-3

 

Additional Information

 

•Additional languages: intermediate Serbo-Croatian, some French, some Spanish

•Public Liability Insurance with the Artists Information Company up to £5 million

•CRB Enhanced Disclosure issued 2011

•Full UK driving license

  

References – Please ask