Experience

Design Against Crime

• United Kingdom
• Design Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Freelance Wellbeing Designer

  • Feb 2019 - Present



HMP Thameside

• Textiles Teacher,

  • Jan 2018 - Present

  After completing my Masters in Design at Central Saint Martins I started volunteering at HMP Thameside with The MakeRight Academy which branched out of Research Centre Against Crime at Central Saint Martins. This January I started teaching textiles which includes basic sewing skills and patchwork quilting as a form of therapeutic art and design. Currently we are making Fidget Blankets which are sensory blankets designed for Alzehimers' patients to act as a calming device. These blankets will be donated to patients at St Joseph's Hospice where I previously ran an arts platform. I am keen to encourage inmates to get out of their own heads and to make something beautiful and useful for elderly people who also find themselves in a difficult place. We are also making Cot Quilts with inmates who have children and grandchildren as well as donating more quilts to children with autism.



St Joseph's Hospice Hackney

• United Kingdom
• Hospitals and Health Care

• Arts Platform Facilitator

  • Jan 2017 - Present

  At St Joseph's Hospice I led a weekly arts platform with day patients involving a range of creative activities. Having completed an MA at Central Saint Martins focusing on what improves wellbeing for cancer patients awaiting treatment I designed sessions aiming to improve mood and act as a positive distraction. These activities ranged from painting flower pots and potting flowers, chocolatiering and cake decorating to painting stained glass, model making and colouring in.



OpenAge

• Information Technology & Services

• Westminster Wellbeing Coordinator, Time For Me

  • Sep 2017 - Jul 2019

  I coordinated Time For Me Westminster, a wellbeing programme for unpaid carer's which provides carers with a break by facilitating social, cultural and creative activities and events. There are about 50 regular members within the borough who attend weekly sessions which range from visiting galleries and museums, meals out, trips to the coast and ten-pin bowling to mindfulness classes. The group is expanding and offers carers with a chance to meet others who find themselves in a similar position, whether caring for a spouse or child.



Zannah Cooper

• Free Lance Artist/Designer

  • Jun 2009 - 2018

  CommissionsTextile Commission for the 'National Museum of the Royal Navy' Centenary Exhibition, Portsmouth (2011)Textile Commissions for 'Anthropologie' The Rockefeller Centre, New York and London, (2009)Textiles for English Eccentrics, (2009)Exhibitions:Toys (Are Us), The Crypt Gallery, St Pancras, London 11/2015Departure Arts Centre, London, 07/2013The Holy Biscuit, Newcastle, 11/2012‘New, Found Treasures’, The National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth, 07/11‘God in the Gallery’ The Holy Biscuit, Newcastle, 03/2011Changing Spaces, ‘The Sweet Shop,’ Hobson Street, Cambridge 01/11Consuming Nature’, Milsom Place, Bath 06/10Redgate Gallery, Brixton, London, 03/10Blood Arts Monger, Milson Place, Bath 11/09Exhibited by Anthropologie at the Rockefeller Centre, New York 08/09 New Designers, Business Design Centre, Islington, London 07/09 Green Art Project’ at Coral Quay Fairtrade, 06/09Bath School of Art and Design Degree Show, Sion Hill, Bath 05/09



Departure

• Netherlands
• Design Services

• Arts Community Worker

  • 2012 - 2014

  At Departure I had a number of roles in the community cafe which involved teaching sewing and patchwork to Bangladeshi women, leading a knitting and stitch platform for the local community as well as cooking and baking in the cafe. The role also included facilitating games such as scrabble and monopoly with regular customers and leading a Film Night followed by initiating a discussion.



Morphe Arts

• Arts Administrator

  • 2012 - 2013

  Being an arts administrator for Morphe involved organising monthly creative meet-ups and managing an annual national conference in Scotland. The correspondence with members included writing monthly newsletters, customer relationship management, minute taking and fundraising.