Annemieke Goldswain-Hein works as both a photographic artist and artist educator.

Through collaboration, investigation and experimentation, Annemieke explores the relationship between our identities and the spaces we inhabit. Working as an artist in schools and galleries, she directs and delivers art projects that combine various forms of photography, such as cyanotypes/blueprinting, light drawing and lens based photography with painting and drawing.

The workshops offer a creative approach to learning, stimulating pupils creativity and equip them with new skills. The workshops can be linked to the curriculum.

“Photography is Everywhere” – Brighton Photo Biennial 2006

“Photography is everywhere” is collaboration between artists from the University of Brighton, Brighton Photo Biennial and pupils of 5 primary schools in Hove. The project focuses on a critical engagement between artists with different backgrounds, stimulating a multi-disciplinary approach fusing photographic processes with other art forms.

As lead artist, Annemieke devised content and delivered a photographic art project to year 4 at Peter Gladwin primary school in Portslade, exploring photography as a medium to narrate fictional stories. The photographic work made by the pupils were exhibited in a range of public places, including Brighton and Hove Buses and the Twitten, as part of the Photo Biennial 2006

“Investigating pattern” Arts Community Exchange, London

As part of the “Arts Community Leader Programme“, run by Arts Community Exchange in London, Annemieke devised and facilitated an artproject to year 3 at Stockwell Primary school, combining photography with blueprinting, drawing, and collage.

The project focused on patterns in the urban and rural world. The pupils creatively explored the subject matter, observing and responding to a natural habitat and an urban surrounding.

They collectively worked towards a large-scale piece of art, using light drawings, photography, cyanotypes/ blueprinting and drawing, which has been exhibited by ACE, in London.

A class of their own

‘Is it possible to see your environment and the people around you as works of art?”

Pupils responded to their environment within the school grounds, focussing on objects, places, their identity as an individual and as a group. Various artworks were created using photography as a medium, creating a dialogue between staff, pupils and myself an artist.