Sarah Butterworth
Arts in Education, Outdoor
Celebratory Arts
MA Arts in Society
MA Politics Security and Integration in Eastern Europe
Tel +44 (7811) 950033
Home: 01935 83592
Email sarah@emeraldant.com
Website: www.emeraldant.com
Gallery: www.flickr.com/photos/emeraldantics
Personal profile
I am passionate about using arts and creativity in education, development and community celebration. I enjoy working
in a range of places and contexts; in post-conflict Bosnia and Kosovo, supporting teams of musicians and teachers to
run creative activities for children. In Iran, following the Bam earthquake, using creative methodologies with
psychologists, social workers and teachers, helping children back to school. In prisons, using art to engage inmates. In
Dorset, where I now live, I make and produce outdoor performance and large scale spectacle for events. My artwork
has an educative aspect to it, and I work with partners such as the National Trust, Dorset Wildlife Trust and Sealife, to
produce thoughtful though entertaining art that engages participants and audiences, on themes such as the protection of
endangered species, our Jurassic heritage, and history. My passion is to link young people internationally through
meaningful projects.
Specialist Areas
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Initiating new projects, developing partnerships, raising funds and ‘Getting It Done’…
Running workshops and projects with children and young people, in the UK and overseas
Making large scale, temporary artwork for events and community celebrations
Commissioned Work and Projects 2004-13 (Freelance)
2014
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Artistic Director / Maker /Performer - ‘Horace the Travelling Pliosaur Cinema’
2014 – Lyme Regis Fossil Festival, Glastonbury, Latitude, Boomtown, Yorkshire Fossil Festival
2013 - tour including Glastonbury, Larmer Tree festivals
2012 – Jurassic Coast Earth Festival (various venues)
Project Manager & Lead Artist – ‘Castle in the Clouds’ – Heritage arts project for 10 teenagers about Lawrence
(of Arabia) at Clouds Hill, Dorset; a week of intense research, followed by a school link with a Jordanian
School in Amman, culminating in the building of an Arabian crusader castle. Partnering with the National
Trust and Carter Community School.
Artist, Conference of the Birds – Fuse Performance – headdress workshop with Street Links, Taunton
Set design, ‘Heritage’, BAC Stage, National Theatre Connections, Bridport Arts Centre, Salberg Theatre
Giant Seahorse, commissioned by Sealife for the ‘Year of the Horse’. A processional puppet for 10 performers.
Inside Out Dorset Festival 2014, a 40 metre White Hare to be installed on a Dorset hillside
Arts workshop leader, Parrett and Axe Primary School – weekly 3D making workshops
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2013
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Artist, outdoor tree installation, Mottisfont Abbey, National Trust
Artist, a 9 foot ‘Mr Tumnus’ lantern made with Cheney School, Oxford Light Night,
Artist / Maker – festival flags, Anonymous Festival, Dorchester
Artist, Beaminster Big Day – ladybird and butterfly carnival costume workshops with primary schools
Artist, Dr Roberts shadow film for Bridport Museum with children at St Mary’s School Bridport and Bridport
Museum – www.youtube.com/emeraldant
Artist, Chinese New Year, Bournemouth - illuminated dragon structure community workshops and schools
lanterns workshops
Mural, Bridport 2011
2012
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Horace the Travelling Pliosaur Cinema – (as above)
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Battle for the Winds, Sailing Olympics, Weymouth – My involvement: Costumes: (i) Arts University
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College Bournemouth tutoring and supporting students in hat-making. (ii) Forkbeard Fantasy, working with
students from PETROC to make Galleon headdresses. (iii) With Activate Performing Arts, working with
primary school children in Bridport to make ‘wind catchers’ for the Dorset wind cart.
Moving Tides Carnival Procession, closing the Olympics in Weymouth. Lead Artist for Portland Schools – recreating Jurassic Portland through carnival art, building dinosaur puppets, creating costumes in my workshop
and with school children. Recruiting and liaising with artists, choreographer, musicians, and schools.
Arts University College Bournemouth (AUCB) – visiting lecturer on Performance and Costume Design BA teaching theatrical hat making, carnival structures, workshop training
Arts in Health, Dorchester County Hospital – making bunting with patients, outpatients and community
groups for a Jubilee Mad-hatters Tea Party in the hospital.
Twin Sails Project, Poole Lighthouse – marking the opening of the new Twin Sails bridge – Illuminated
artwork on boats created with young people, working with artist Eileen Haste and Poole Museum
Schools workshops - (The Purbeck School, Swanage Middle, Carter Community, Sunninghill, Damers First
School, Milbourne Port). Large structures, headdresses, hand puppets, carnival costumes. Dinosaur themes.
Flowers – group of 4 large structures for Anonymous Festival – willow, tissue paper, lights
Eden Project – lantern structure for Time of Gifts procession
2011
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Earth Festival - Project Pliosaur – building of small scale burakeet puppet ‘Poppy the Pliosaur’, (pictured
above) and numerous street performances as a Jurassic Jockey
Eden Project – Time of Gifts. Large illuminated fantasy city structure, and schools lanterns for procession
Carter Community School, Poole - willow workshops - Arabian-inspired towers and architecture,
culminating in a procession
O.S. Mosty, Czech Republic – presentation and workshops with social workers, teachers and mentors –using
the arts with young people and prisoners
Pride in Bournemouth - painting of a life-size 3D lion
Bridport Town Council
- mural for Buckydoo Square, Bridport Town Centre
Activate Performing Arts -‘Light on Time’ lead carnival artist with schools - processional event on Poole
Quay.
Workshops – primary, secondary schools, Bridport Arts Centre- shadow puppets, carnival arts, Big Draw
2010
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Eden Project, construction of giant mudmaid puppet + 63 lanterns for St Austell Torch-lit Procession
Anonymous Festival - banner and workshop
Arrow Congress Carnival, Plymouth, giant puppet, willow workshops with young people, Marjon College,
Plymouth
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Satellite Arts - ‘To Market’ street theatre workshops with young people. Development of characters based on
site visits to markets. Design and making of ‘Geoff the Trader’ backpack puppet, head dresses for the Boiled
Sweetie Sisters. Successful bid to Awards 4 All.
Dartington College of Art -visiting tutor
Workshops - schools, adult groups, Dorset County Council extended schools
2009
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2008
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Anne Peaker Centre - Project Manager / Artist Learning 2 Learn, HMP High Down and HMP Bronzefield
Brewers Quay, Weymouth - two puppet witches
Weymouth Carnival - Lead Artist, Maritime Monsters puppets, wrote successful bid to Arts Council
Workshops – schools, Emergency Exit Arts, Weymouth Drama Club,
Dartington College of Art - Visiting Tutor
Anne Peaker Centre, Project Manager and Artist Learning 2 Learn - HMP High Down
Satellite Arts, giant processional puppets and mask workshops
Artist / Tutor Portland YOI - Street Art Project, variety of arts teaching young offenders, particular focus on
murals
B Side Arts Festival - ‘Tubular Shells’ installation
Spirit of the Sea, Weymouth - Lead Artist for procession, schools workshops
2005 – 8 – Freelance Artist – special focus on outdoor performance- much work with Emergency Exit Arts
Arts Management / Research 2006- 2009
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2009-11 Project Manager, fund raising, Project Pliosaur
2007-9 Project Manager/ Evaluator, Free Flow Art, Anne Peaker Centre for Arts in Criminal Justice; arts
projects inspiring prisoners to take up education
2008-10 Satellite Arts , Project Manager / Fundraiser
2007 Researcher, Oxford Research International; qualitative research and report writing for the UN in BosniaHerzegovina, looking at the needs of returnees and internally displaced communities
2005 -6 - Emergency Exit Arts; evaluation of Parenting Power arts projects in children’s centres, and work in
Coldbath and Orchard Estates, Lewisham, London
Employment History pre 2005
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2005- 6 Planning and Development Officer, Family Support, Social Services, London Borough of Bromley
2004
Project Manager, Creative Activities Project, Bam, Iran, World Vision
2002-3 Regional Manager Balkans, Creative Activities, War Child Netherlands, based in Bosnia and Kosovo
2000-2 Arts Development Officer, Weymouth and Portland, Dorset
1999-0 Project Manager, community arts Action Van Project, Children’s Aid Direct, based in Macedonia
1997-8 Project Coordinator, Crossing Borders, Council for Education in World Citizenship, in UK, Bosnia,
Romania, a schools linking project running joint arts projects
1994-6 Arts Workshop Leader, refugee and collective centres, Serious Road Trip, based in Bosnia (voluntary
work)
Education / Training
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Periplum – Training in Site Specific Performance, Nov 2011
Nenagh Watson – animating objects / puppets, Aug 2011
Aardman – puppet making workshop, Aug 2011
Landmark Advanced Course, October 2011
Safeguarding and the Arts (Code 1717), February 2010, updated training in child protection
Forkbeard Fantasy – Puppetry and Automata course, Feb 2010 and 2008, Summer School 2008
Koestler Trust, Arts Mentoring for people leaving prison, 2009
Landmark Forum, Landmark Advanced Course 2010
Certificate in Carnival Crafts Level 2, Weymouth College, (delivered course as well as completed it), 2009
Emergency Exit Arts – introduction to welding, puppet building, 2009
MA Politics, Integration and Security in Eastern Europe, UCL, 2004-5
Serbian, UCL, 2004 -5
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MA Arts in Society, Glos University, 2001-3
Additional Information
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Additional languages: intermediate Serbo-Croatian, some French, some Spanish
Public Liability Insurance with the Artists Information Company up to £5 million
CRB Enhanced Disclosure issued 2011
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