Julie has worked with several schools and nurseries to create exciting spaces within the school or nursery environment.

These have included working from the designs of years 3 and 4 to create a beach inside and responding with pre-school children to the story of 'Where The Wild Things Are' which involved making Max's den and a boat to sail away in.

Other projects include creating spaces to explore natural materials, transforming a courtyard with recycled materials and wrapping up the playground equipment !

A secondary school project in conjunction with Creative Partnerships to develop an exciting, inspirational and functional identity for a space to be used by students with special needs during break time in school.

The students worked with Julie to develop their own ideas and then worked creatively together alongside Julie and teaching assistants to transform their room. This involved painting walls, making wire sculptures, felt making, silk painting and making spray painted collages. The end result was a colourful and exciting room.

Work with gifted and talented year 5 and 6 children responding to nature, using collage, wax resist, pastels, paint and felt making.

Children looked at the work of artists who work with nature as a theme, for example Andy Goldsworthy, and responded with their own images.

Art week in a Nottingham Primary School. Work included making two felt hangings for the school entrance, silk painting and mixed media responses to 'The Jungle Book' and 'James and the Giant Peach'.

Celebrating Chinese New year in a Derbyshire nursery school. Parents and children spent a day working to Chinese music, eating Chinese snacks and making lanterns, kites and lion masks.

A residency in conjunction with English Heritage and Junction Arts based in a Derbyshire primary school.
Teachers and children visited Bolsover Castle and spent time drawing there, with the opportunity to develop their responses to the castle and its interior with further drawing sessions in school.

Children worked with pencil, charcoal and pastel to create some wonderful drawings which were exhibited at the Bolsover Children’s Festival.

A "Create2gether" project working with a pre-school to explore nature. Children experimented with a variety of media and made explorations both inside and outside.

During sessions held over several weeks, children explored their local environment and then worked with natural materials within the nursery. The children considered pattern and change. Explorations were made using and responding to natural materials. The children worked with clay, paint, different drawing media and felt making, resulting in an exhibition of work for parents.

A week long residency in a Nottingham primary school, working with the whole school to transform a courtyard using recycled materials.

Children brought in plastic bags, tin cans, plant pots, broken umbrellas and many more “found” and recyclable objects. During the week small groups of children, full of ideas, worked outside in the courtyard. During this time a shed was painted, plastic bag flowers emerged, umbrella and tin can trees were made and the courtyard was greatly improved in keeping with the environmental ethos of the school.

A day experimenting with colour and colour mixing with years 1 and 2.

Children worked in small groups throughout the day, mixing colours, creating patterns and responding to the stimulus of a fruit and vegetable still life.

A residency in a day nursery setting in Nottingham, working with natural materials.

Inspired by the work of artist Andy Goldsworthy the outside was brought inside. The children responded to an initial 'provocation' in the form of a construction in the nursery and work developed from this.
The thinking underpinning this project was influenced by the Reggio Emilia school of thought.

Work developed each week building on the children’s explorations and interests.

A project in conjunction with a Health Promotion team in Derbyshire. The project explored creatively the thoughts and feelings of year 6 children in relation to making the transition from primary to secondary school. Several schools participated and work was made using clay, mod-roc, textile paint, oil pastels, paper and shoes.

Children expressed vividly their hopes and fears using the different art media.

Julie worked alongside sculptor Phil Neal over a period of several weekly sessions in a Derbyshire Primary School. Year 3 and 4 children were involved in constructing small metal dragonflies to form the wings of a larger sculpture to be positioned in the local Country Park.

In addition children worked with dragonfly images to create silk paintings, felt hangings, paper sculptures, mosaics, collages, prints and paintings. These formed a rich display of work in school throughout the term.