Courses in automata and kinetic art

Courses are a minimum of four x 3 hour sessions £360 (plus materials)
£660 for eight 3 hour sessions

Taster sessions £45/hr (2 hrs)

You will taught from a wide variety of skills: Besides metal and wood-work - silver soldering & brazing, electric and mechanical engineering, electronics & power supplies and Arduino coding.

Automata: Tuesday evenings 6.30 - 9.30, Kinetic: Thursday evenings: 6.30 - 9.30
Automata: Saturday mornings 10.00 - 1.00
Children up to 12 to be accompanied by an adult

At Unit 20 Kingsgate Workshops,West Hampstead/Kilburn London NW6 2JG

contact Tom Wilkinson

www.tomwilkinson.com

Tom Wilkinson has a degree and teaching certificate. He currently part-time associate lecturer in Technical art at Wimbledon College of Art and kinetics at the Bartlett UCL.

Biog.
He joined the contemporary automata scene around 1990 when he worked on The Ride of Life, the alternative theme park, for Cabaret Mechanical Theatre. He then went on to make the Sailor's Dream for Covent Garden and showed with them in Automata at The South Bank. For over he decade he made coin operated and collection box automata, often with Molly Fletcher, his wife and co-founder of Arts Republic. For over ten years their automata we sited at the V&A Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood. They have work at The MAD Museum and Marvin's Marvellous Mechanical Museum in Detroit.

Students are encouraged to bring with then an idea they wish to make. They will be taken throught the process of drawing, sketch modelling ans final construction.

Terms and conditions.
Pleaces are secured by BACS in advance
Bookings cannot be refunded with less than 48 hours notice
You will be inducted into using lathes, mills and other bench power tools. While at Kingsgate Workshops you will be covered by public liability insurance

workshops
wind sculpture festival work pdf

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Curriculum Vitae - Sci-Art Residencies & Workshops

2012 Henley Youth Festival - We performed the Energy Garden including our latest work the Solar Sphere where children add their decorated bottle to the solar powered sculpture

2011 Southend – Performed The Energy Garden Florascope as part of the Metal, End of Term show. This was an interactive show using pedal, wind, water and solar power

2010 Thames Festival – Performed The Florascope, a water powered sculpture on the banks of the Thames near The Oxo Tower. We worked with The House of FairyTales.

2009 Wind Sculpture Residency, Heber Primary School, E Dulwich. Made by Arts Republic with artist Polly Pollock.
Dandelion and Spiral Wind Sculptures. Made by Arts Republic in collaboration with Kingsgate Trust for Queens Park Day 2009, installed outside Kingsgate Studios NW6, Oct 2009

2008
Mulberry School, London Borough of Camden. Wind sculpture workshop with 7 to 9 year olds using fizzy drinks bottles.

2002/3
Bury St Edmonds Gallery. Robot Automaton from recycled microwave ovens with children and adults recovering from mental illness.

2002/3
Eyres Monsell Primary School, Leicester. Residency as part of Art Republic with automata workshops, culminating in building The Eyres Dragon
view pdf – see Eryes Dragon

2002
Oakington Manor Primary School, Brent. Workshops in wind sculpture and mold making.

2001
Kingsgate Primary School, London. Two day project: linkages and their use in the Video cassette player and Automata.
View pdf 1 – View pdf 2

2000
Broughton Primary School, Broughton-in-Furness, Cumbria. Producing competion winners mosaic for school playground with every child participating – see Broughton Primary School

1999
William Tynedale Primary School, Islington, London. Co-ordinated by The Barbican Arts Trust. Two six week projects making automata with years 4 and 6.

1998
Kingsgate Infants School, London. Three day project making plaster castes of impressions in clay.
View pdf