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NEWS: (22/02/2012) Pui Lee is now an Art-Co-Ordinator for the charity organisation LifewithArt: "I'm really pleased to have the opportunity to work with LifewithArt. They do some amazing work and really do make the world a better and happier place for a lot of people out there! Their ethos ties in with my own working principles about the importance of creativity and I am delighted to be part of the team now!"
LifewithArt was established in 2010 with the purpose of helping young and disabled people throughout the United Kingdom through education in the Arts. LifewithArt supports both National Charities and Local Communities. The theraputic benefits of art for our clients has been proven. The workshops allow participants the opportunity to create something themselves, at whatever level they are able to achieve, which gives them pride and confidence in their own abilities.
Check out www.lifewithart.co.uk and "LIKE" their Facebook page.
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NEWS: Saturday 10th March 2012: Artists Pui Lee and Lara Norris will be delivering a workshop to celebrate International Women's Day at The Salford Link Project, in Eccles, Salford. 1pm-5pm. Representing GRUMPY Salford. More details to come shortly...
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NEWS: Pui Lee has been invited to design and deliver art workshops for young people as part of the Try Something Tuesdays Club at Kirkby Gallery in Knowsley on 13th and 20th March 2012! The workshops will be inspired by relevant books the children have been reading. More details to follow!
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NEWS: Artist Pui Lee will have an interactive stall at The Custom House's "Creative Careers Event" held at the two venues: Wed 28th March 2012 in South Shields and Thurs 29th March 2012 in North Tyneside. 9am-4pm. Come along and see the artist at work and ask her any questions. More details to come shortly...
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NEWS: Tuesday 3rd April 2012: Artist Pui Lee will be delivering a Junk Modelling workshop in Manchester. 1pm-3pm. Representing GRUMPY Salford. More details to come shortly...
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NEWS: Friday 1st June 2012: Pui Lee will be delivering an art workshop for adults as part of Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery Trust's innovative new First Fridays programme! More details to come shortly...
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NEWS: On Thursday 16th February 2012, Pui Lee designed and delivered a very unique drop-in family-friendly art workshop, "Make Your Own 3D Sellotape Tortoise/s" for Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland. 1pm-3pm.
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NEWS: Pui Lee designed and delivered art workshops for schools at Huyton Gallery, Knowsley, and Kirkby Gallery, Knowsley, on 7th - 9th February 2012! The workshops coincided with the exhibitions that are currently on show at these galleries. More details to follow!
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NEWS: (25/01/2012) Pui Lee designed and delivered a fun-filled workshop to celebrate Chinese New Year with the children (aged 2-4 yrs) at Goschen Road Nursery, Carlisle. The workshop incorporated a short illustrated talk, music, arts 'n' crafts activities (making fire crackers and Chinese toy drums), story-time and dance! The children had a great time and their big effort was to be commended.
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GREETINGS: Pui Lee wishes everyone a very Happy New Year and may 2012 bring plenty of inspiration, creativity and many more smiley faces! "Looking back, 2011 has been a wonderful year... I've met some great people, been to some new places and seen lots of interesting things! I'm especially grateful for all the opportunities that have come my way and I look forward to those which have yet to come... :-) "
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Congratulations to Whickham School, Newcastle, who has won a free workshop with me at the 2011 Cultural Ambassador's AGM! I look forward to working with you in due course!
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NEWS: Thursday 22nd December 2011. Wow! What a fantastic turn-out for my Drop-In Art Workshop "Make Your Own 3D Christmas Tree and/or Red Nosed Reindeer with Artist Pui Lee!" - @ NGCA, Sunderland! 1pm-3pm. Some brilliant creations made by the families who took part! Images coming shortly!
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NEWS: Tuesday 20th December 2011. Had a good fun making Christmas-Themed 3D Magnets with families at my Drop-In Festive Art Workshop @ NGCA, Sunderland. 1pm-3pm. Thanks to everyone who came along! Images coming shortly...
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NEWS: (12/12/2011) Had a fantastic day at Chorlton High School, Manchester, delivering 4 contemporary art workshops to groups of Year 9 pupils! Representing Chinese Arts Centre. In the workshop, the students really pushed the boundaries of drawing and working with materials to create an array of exciting fashion costumes, which would WOW anyone! More details to come shortly...
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NEWS... Had a great time doing some art with the elderly tenants at Burnside Court, Carlisle, on Thursday 1st December 2011! 10am-12pm. The group worked on Christmas-themed Origami projects, which resulted in some funky festive Christmas cards and decorations! Images to come shortly...
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NEWS...Looking forward to doing some art with some of the students at Long Benton Community College, Newcastle, after the New Year! :-)
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(10/11/2011) Went along to an Arts Council Advice Session for Artists at MIMA, Middlesbrough. Found it really informative and also had a good look at some of the shows on there at the museum too!
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(01/11/2011) Attended the Lunchtime Talk: "The Museum Interloper: Programming Contemporary Art at Tullie House" at Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery Trust, Carlisle today! Presented by Visual Arts Officer, Fiona Venables. Those who attended got to revisit and reflect on some of the diverse art exhibitions that have taken place there in recent years, as well as considering the value of contemporary art today. Highlights for me personally include: After The Fact (2005), Body Space (2008), Bathing Beauties: Re-imagining the Beach Hut for the 21st-century (2009) and Underwater (2010). It really showed Tullie House as a vibrant local cultural institution with a growing reputation in its diverse specialist fields and I look forward to the exciting exhibitions that lay ahead!
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...(28/10/2011) Pui Lee designed and delivered The Big Draw! event: Faerie Fantasy World! at Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens. In Jack Crawford Learning Room. 11am-12:30pm and 1pm-3:30pm. Drop-in. ...and it was a huge success! Click HERE to see images from the day!
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...Pui Lee is now an Arts Award Advisor (Bronze/Silver Level)! So, now as part of my extensive arts education practice, I can now add further value to the participant/student experience with Arts Award. Please get in touch for more information.
(21/10/2011) Pui Lee completed her Arts Award Adviser Training (Bronze/Silver Level) with Creative Futures Cumbria. Arts Award is a fantastic scheme for young people today and it provides them with the opportunity to work towards an accredited award, which sits on the national qualification framework. This means I can also help participating schools fulfil ArtsMark application criteria.
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...Pui Lee has just completed studying for her Level 4 Award PTTLS teaching qualification part-time at West Gate Community College, Newcastle, with a view of progressing onto the CTLLS later on in the year in order to further her own professional development. She looks forward to new opportunities that lay ahead with this.
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..Noah's Ark inspired interactive mural piece for play-area at High Heskett Primary School, Cumbria, soon to be completed! This has been worked on with collaboration with Chris Debinson from W. M. Joinery in Carlisle, who has helped tremendously with the wood-work side of the project.
[above] Pics show left and right areas of the top section of the ark, which has been painted and varnished! Bottom half is work-in-progress as we speak!
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...Another successful art workshop in the North East! Pui Lee designed and delivered a drop-in art workshop for Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art in Sunderland to coincide with The Wonders of the Invisible World exhibition. Families with children aged 3-13yrs came along to visit the artist and made dreamcatchers in the afternoon. Thursday 11th August 2011 1pm-3pm.
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...Pui Lee has been selected to show work in a group show, entitled, Home, at Altered Esthetics Gallery in Minneapolis, USA! 1st - 29th September 2011.
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...Pui Lee delivered an art workshop for the Teddy Bears Picnic event at Mowbray Park, Sunderland. This was for Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens to coincide with The Truth About Faeries exhibition and to celebrate I Love Parks Week. The workshop, titled, "Discover Your Inner Faerie: Make your Own Life-Size Faerie/Elf" allowed young children and their families to get creative and make their own big drawings to contribute towards a big installation at the park. It was a very well-turned out workshop with in excess of 100 visitors at least! There were lots of other activities to do on the day too including a mini beast hunt, dancing, songs etc.
More images to follow...
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...Pui is currently working on some new drawings, where she will continue and add to her Still Lives series body of work. Images coming soon!
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...Drawing Class at the Sands Centre, Carlisle; as part of Carlisle Leisure's Fab and Fifty activity scheme for over 50's. Every Thursday 12:30pm-1:30pm. Basic materials are provided. If interested, please contact the artist for more info at 07970 785 030. Have a look at Workshops section of this website for more info.
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...Pui Lee is a freelance arts educator and regularly leads art workshops. She is also available for private tuition in drawing. Please contact the artist to discuss your requirements, contact Pui at 07970 785 030 / pui_lee@hotmail.com. Have a look at Workshops and CV section of this website for more info about Pui's arts education work.