Crossing, Public art project - 11 billboardall were displayed all around Islington
Crossing, during the public bus tour of the billboards
Crossing, the project created an extensive residents' image bank
Crossing, the project created an extensive residents' image bank
Byam Shaw, Cameron Tayler, a young participant looking at presenation of his animation project
Students at Byam Shaw looking at animations by the young people
Byam Shaw student looking at animation project by young participants
Educational Work
2006-7 Widening Particiaption, Central St Martins
Lead tutor on Widening Participation pilot scheme at Central Saint Martin’s college of Art & design. The scheme is set out to help young people from diverse backgrounds to gain entry into the BA Fine Art course.
2004 – on going Mentoring
Mentoring – a mentor to performance artists as part of East End Collaborations and Fierce festival. More recently asked to mentor performance artists independently, usually by those who fund it through received grants applications.
2005 – 2006 Byam Shaw Gulbenkain project
Lead tutor at Byam Shaw school of art pilot project funded by the Gulbenkian Foundation aims to bring young people from PRUs and others who are exluded or outside mainstream education into the art college itself. The project involved the devising and teaching of two painting modules and a basic animation module. In 2007 a training pack will be produces as well as a conference and an exhibition.
1996 – 2006 Insight Arts Trust
Lead tutor, assistant director, workshop facilitator, arts and drama tutor, video and photography artist, for Insight Arts Trust – working on site-specific multi arts productions and a rolling programme with people out of prison. Running video projects and workshops in prisons. In 2005 Ashery created a live art interaction and a large scale video installation with people out of prison at the Royal Opera House as part of the production Property from the 3rd Floor.
Visiting lecturer and tutoring
Visiting Lecturer on the BA in Photography and MA Fine Art at the Surrey Institute of Art and Design, Farnham
2000 – 2001
Visiting Lecturer on the BA Art & Design at Croydon College – Contextual Studies and Interdisciplinary Studio practice and on the BA Media, Art & Design at Westminster University – Contextual Studies
1998
Teaching alternative and 19th Century photographic printing process at the RCA across the MA.
1996-1999
Camerawork and Fotofusion – Teaching and running B&W printing courses , Colour printing, and alternative printing processes.
2004
Independent Photography, Greenwich. – Running and teaching a B&W photography course.
2005 Creating Success projects in Lewisham
Producing six short videos with year 4 at John Stainer primary school in Lewisham with Creating Success in Lewisham in relation to a poetry residency. Also producing digital illustrations for children poetry book from the same class. The videos and book The Dice of Life is available on request.
2004
Producing digital collage work with year 5 at Childeric primary School for the poetry book Making the Page a Stage, book available on request. A project by Creating Success in Lewisham.
1999-2001 Crossing, Public art project
Crossing – Large scale photographic public arts project at the Marquess Estate, now called River Green, on Essex Road. Islington. The project followed the regeneration project on the estate by giving 100 house holds single-use cameras. The resulting images went on 11 billboards around Islington. A bus tour around the billboards was organised. The publication Crossing is available on request. The project was a collaboration between Oreet Ashery and Janey Hagger. The project was funded by London Arts, Southern Housing Group and City Parochial Foundation.
2003 regenration related art projects
Speak Out – Devising photography and Sound project with young people in relation to the regeneration at Kings cross, London.
Video Diary – Setting up a video room with equipment on the Pembury estate, Hackney, and running basic video courses to residents of the estate. The project culminated in a video piece about the regeneration project that was going at the time. A Peabody Trust project.
2002 Public art with Mencap and Peabody Trust
Ordinary Lives – Running and teaching an art project celebrating 50 years to Mencap Islington. The final exhibition was shown at the Islington museum and on hoardings around Islington. A collaboration between Oreet Ashery and Janey Hagger.
Time Capsule – Making short videos with young people in Islington, Hackney and Tower Hamlets, about time and the city. Funded by the Peabody Trust. A collaboration between Oreet Ashery and Michael Gillespie.
1998 Chisnhale education
Devising and Running educational workshops at the Chisenhale Art Gallery to coincide with Hanna Collins’s forest frost prints form Poland. Ashery turned the educational space into a darkroom a large scale photogram of a tree was produced by each group, made of collected branches and found objects. Ay the end all the large scale photograms (1.5/4 meter) were displayed together to create a forest.
1997 residencies at a East End secondary school and Michael Sobell Centre
Between the Lines – A performance/video residency at old Jewish people’s home in North London. Ashery devised with participants an adaptation of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s story ‘the Bitter Truth’ into a Slide/tape dissolve piece shown at the centre. A 1st Framework Productions’ project.
East End Fictions – Residency at Morpeth Secondary School, East-End of London. A Camerawork project. The residency was a cross curriculum project including literature, art and geography following Jack London’s book the People of the Abyss. A collaboration with Daniel Rubinstein. Library link x2
1996 Under Exposure residency
Under Exposure – Self initiated photographic residency with children refugees in Hampstead Hostel, homeless women in Central London and Bengali women’s’ group in Holborn. The project was based at 1A community Centre, 1A Rosebery Avenue, Camden, and was funded by London Arts Board.
1992 – 1997 dark room
Running on a voluntary basis communal darkroom at 1A Community Centre, Rosebery Avenue, Holborn, London. The darkroom was running photographic courses on a regular basis as well as one-off projects.