mail@amculhane.co.uk

I specialise in enabling others to explore and express themselves and their relationships with different landscapes and environments through participatory workshops working in a range of artforms. I have worked with young people, home educated groups, excluded groups, groups from mainstream education, older people, people with special needs,mixed groups, environmental educators, tertiary students.

I facilitate site-specific workshops, residential workshops, events, symposia, talks, discussions and meetings as well as mentoring other artists.

I have worked with: Creative Partnerships – Leicester & Nottingham, Swaledale Festival, LEAF Sheffield, ICOSS (University of Sheffield), Architecture Week East Midlands, Groundwork East Midlands, Scottish Agricultural College, Wilderness Festival (Glenmore Lodge), National Trust, Artlink Scotland, Commonwealth Youth Exchange, Dance 4 – East Midlands Dance Agency.

"We rarely get a chance to listen to the world around us, and this project enabled us all to sit back and really listen to the natural sounds of Exmoor. These exercises also inspired some fantastic drawings and poems from the young people" Julie Stonier, Somerset Rural Youth Project

"It was a really brilliant experience for teachers and young people to be able to work outside the classroom, and it opened all our eyes" Emma Cousins, Art Teacher, Dulverton School, Somerset

Education Projects in 2008:
Lead artist on Cocoon, an interdisciplinary Science Week project at Imperial Avenue Infant School, Leicester working with 120 Key Stage 1 children and artists: Nikki Pugh, Paul Conneally, Miriam Keye, Francis O’Donnell Smith and Glenn Boulter and De Montfort University scientist Angela O’Sullivan - Creative Partnerships Leicester & Leicester City Gallery

Collaborative project with Peter Wood (artist) on research and development of Outdoor Learning Spaces, Imperial Avenue Infant School. Leicester working with Foundation stage children - Creative Partnerships, Leicester & Leicester City Gallery