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| Date of birth: 27 June 1972 Driving License: Full, clean. QUALIFICATIONS Undergraduates: BA (Hons) Fine Art Foundation Diploma, Art and Design. Subjects include: Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture and Digital Media. Secondary Education: 11 GCSE's, 6 'O' Level grades including English and Maths. Grade A for Art and for Photography. 'A' Level Art, grade A. Only pupil to be awarded 'School contribution to Art' two years consecutively. KEY SKILLS Interpersonal Skills: Responds well to responsibility. Good communication skills. Versatility: Competent Graphic Designer, illustrator and Photographer. Versatile creative ability. Excellent academic drawing skills. Digital Media: Quark : Adobe Photoshop : Adobe Golive, Page Mill : Page builder. Competent PC, Apple mac, Internet and scanner user. Familiar with Digital photography hardware and software. Responsibility: Working for 'Dazed and Confused' style magazine and various other publications regularly as a graphic designer. Completing page layouts independently from scans and editorial through to finished proof and print. WORK EXPERIENCE June 1992-Sept 1994- Bradford City A.F.C, Coaching children of all ages during school holidays as part of the football in the community scheme. November - January 1994- Initial commissioned Artists' residency. Chapel grange Special Needs School, Bradford. Successfully designing and completing a large scale wall mural with children with various special needs. Fully integrating special needs children with mainstream peers on a series of public arts projects. February 1994-June 1998- Arts Coordinator, Chapel Grange School. Modifying and imlementing a complete arts curriculum within the Bradford Arts Framework and national curriculum for a wide variety of approx. one hundred special needs children. January 1999- Millfields Primary School, Hackney. Working Specifically with children suffering from Autism, divising individual education targets and providing a specialised curriculum using the TEACCH and PECS communication systems, enabling a higher level of mainstream integration. May 1999- Divising and implementing a comprehensive football coaching scheme for over a hundred of the schools' children. February 2000- Independantly completed a large scale wall mural within the schools' nursey. June 2000- Independantly completed a large scale playground floor painting for National Playground Week. May 2000- Fully coordinated a large scale exhibition and auction of ten paintings by the schools' autistic children. June 2000- Independantly formed and organised the first inter-schools all female students football fixture in the history of Millfields Primary school. July 1999- Graphic Designer. ‘Dazed and Confused’ magazine. Completing full page layouts for publication. July 1999- Photographers Assistant. Assisting London based photographer John Spinks on various commissioned photo shoots. January 2001- Designed the Millfields Community school website and school magazine. www.millfields.hackney.sch.uk September 2001- Currently employed at Millfields Primary, Hackney. Undergoing the QTS traing scheme. Completion date: July 2002 visit my class wesite at: www.oocities.org/roosta26/david-rachael.html Significant Employment Based Training Days: Two day national PECS conference. London. Physical Restraint. Epilepsy. NSPCC Numeracy and Literacy in the National Curriculum. TEACCH Science in the National Curriculum. Working with Emotional and Behavioural difficulties. Autistic Spectrum Disorder. One day Autistic Society conference. Anti - Bullying initiatives. YPO Art and Design in the National Curriculum. Makaton. Clients include: Durex – Global sex survey Kingfisher Publications – ‘The complete book of the night’ Dorling Kindersley Hackney Education – Learning Live Rascals Soccer School ‘Dazed and Confused’ magazine Hackney Education Authority Bradford Education Authority Sunderland city Pulse magazine LEISURE INTERESTS Reading and writing. Television, cinema, photography, painting and drawing - Travelled extensively throughout North America and Europe, documenting aspects of popular culture. Football - Represented both Bradford and Yorkshire for the S.F.A. for six years. Spent the following eight years playing semi-professional in the Unibond and Northern Counties East Leagues. Playing the drums and guitar - Played in various bands, recording several radio sessions as well as performing throughout the north and south of England. References available on request |
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