Facilitating Learning at Tate Modern 2019
Keda Richens
Gallery of past and present practicE
My teaching and my practice as an artist are intertwined.
Everything I do and think of as Art I think “How can I include others in this?
Starting out as a conceptual mixed-media artist I began working with communities in 1995 and now consider my work to be a socially engaged practice. First working with refugee families in a London Primary school, I moved to Istanbul in 1997 and began teaching in Kindergartens and primary schools as well as writing for Time Out Istanbul and an Arts magazine. I also gave private arts and English lessons, and was a costume designer for commercials and magazines. Over the past 20 years I have worked with people of all ages and cultures in many diverse environments. As a Lead Children’s worker for a young parents charity to Dentistry students I have worked with everyone to enable them to tell their stories in their own voices.
Solo Parent’s Arts Project
Ideas & prompts via a private Facebook group 2020-21
Talk for Freelands Foundation Artist Teacher network
2021
Where We work
Photograph and writing in a pop-up exhibition 2020
Teaching in Further Education
Arts & Design and Fashion & Clothing BTEC & UAL 2017-19
Teaching Nursery & Primary
Istanbul 2004-2011
Arts Workshops (including Action Painting)
Istanbul 1997-2011