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Since the late 1980s Michèle Fuirer has specialised in working in the museum and gallery sector to engage audiences in informal learning through modern and contemporary art. She has devised and led art workshops,
projects and training for a wide ranging audience, working directly in response to exhibitions and collections of modern and contemporary art. Groups worked with include early learners,
families, adults in formal and informal education, teachers, schools and local authorities. Michèle has written and presented research on gallery learning at a number of conferences in the UK.
Organisations worked for include:
Ikon Gallery Birmingham; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Hayward Gallery, London; Serpentine Gallery, London; Cafe Gallery Projects, London; Bromley Education Authority; Turner Contemporary, Margate; Camden Arts Centre, London; Tate Modern, London (current part time employment in the Learning Department); East London NHS Foundation Trust; St Thomas' Hospital; Look Ahead Housing and Care; National Children's Bureau.
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| Training course for Early Years practitioners at Tate Modern - sharing knowledge and using modern and contemporary art as a stimulus for professional development. |
Small Steps - a series of linked workshops in the Community Programme at Tate Modern for local children under 5 and their families. Activities,taking place in the gallery linked to works on display.
Photo Bridget Virden.
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| Excellence in Cities art project for KS3 at Tate Modern during exhibition Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia. Joint project with artist Alex Julyan. |
Artist led workshop during David Smith exhibition at Tate Modern, Large-scale ink drawing in the Turbine Hall in response to installation by Carsten Holler, 2007... |
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| 'Tea & Talk' - an audience development project for Turner Contemporary, Margate to engage local audiences in the lead up to the opening of the new gallery. Photo: Esther Collins |
'Conversations With Louise' - a six week off site project for Seniors in South London working in response to the exhibition of Louise Bourgeois at Tate Modern, 2008. Tate Modern, Age Concern and collaboration with artist Alex Julyan. |
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| Look Ahead Housing & Care with Serpentine Gallery, London. Three month photography project with service users culminating in slide installation in Whiteleys Shopping Centre, 2000, Front cover of annual report, Lookahead Housing & Care. |
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