Annabel Pattullo
       HOME           ABOUT    ANNABEL           EXHIBITIONS          CRAFTS          WORKSHOPS/PROJECTS           CONTACT  &  COMMISSIONING

WORK EXPERIENCE

January - June 1989
Cairns Interiors, Aberdeen, Scotland. A six month work placement with an interior design company.
Responsibilities included advising customers on colours and fabric combinations, designing fabric trend boards, ordering fabrics.

Aug 1989 - July 1990 John Lewis Partnership
Retail Sales Consultant
Advising customers on soft furnishing fabrics, window dressings, ordering & selling fabrics.

July 1990
A nine month period of travelling and working on art portfolio.

April 1991 - Sept 1992 Designer (freelance)
Involved in design commissions in Aberdeen, London and Holland.

Sept 1992 Aberdeen Enterprise Trust.
12 week course in setting up your own Business.
Followed by the Young Persons Enterprise Allowance Award.

Received the Enterprise Allowance Award (a grant) for a year.Established a range of art activities in both private & public venues for children and adults. Included writing a marketing and advertising plan..

1992 – 2000 The Wolf´s Hearth, Tornaveen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Managing assistant and workshop co-ordinator
Responsible for assisting and running an accommodation centre in the north of Scotland. Developed and launched an arts workshop studio in 1994 offering non-vocational classes in a variety of craft subjects to tourists and local people.

1992 – 2000 Aberdeen City Council
Arts Development Tutor
(contracted to work on projects till 1998, then worked 16 hours a week till 2000 Below shows a selection of projects I was involved in during that time)

Union Street Stitched Up
A six month project working with members of the public in the Aberdeen City Gallery. Designed & constructed two 12ft Textile Wall hangings to celebrate 200 years of the main street in the city. Involved with working with children from P1-P7, adults and special needs.

Game-On in Great Northern Partnership Primary Schools 1999
based on playground games. Children had the opportunity to learn about traditional games with storytelling and drama. The children then created their A project working with over 450 children in the more deprived areas of the city own games using craft techniques, song, movement and words.
Middlefield Nursery - Rising Fives
A parent and under fives project making a painted floor game based on the theme of the jungle. The participants learned (in a fun way) about travelling to other countries, colours, shapes and numbers.

The Zone-2000
Working together with 8-12 year olds, a project was run in Aberdeen´s Town House where upon children had the opportunity to discuss with councillors their issues about play. Comprehensive research was done by visiting existing play areas in the city with the children. Working on art projects & drama sessions raised issues about how to combat problems of play and improve facilities within the city .

Smithfield Primary School Mosaic Project
Working with groups of children from P1- P7 mosaic panels were designed and made and used to improve the outside of the school (where vandalism was a big problem). Each child had the opportunity to help in some way from selecting colours, shapes and interesting textures, sorting mosaic stones, sticking, grouting and polishing final piece.

1994 Aberdeen City Council

Community Arts Officer (6 months)
Administrative role within the department, liasing with community workers, social workers and local authorities to establish arts activities in the city. Involved in sourcing tutors and dealing with clients using the on-site art studio facilities.

1998 – 2001 Member of a crafts person collective called Velvet Heart
Involved in a Textile design group sharing Craft Fair costs, sourcing outlets and exhibiting together.

2001 Moved to Freiburg, Germany

2002 –present AusLÄNDER Initiative, Lorettostraße 42
Workshop facilitator
Teach a weekly sewing class for German women and migrants.

2003 Offene Stadt/Soziale Stadt, Rathausplatz 2-4, Freiburg
Community Artist
Working in Alt-Haslach I have been facilitating a textile community arts project with members of the local community.

2004/2005
Lehrbeauftragte an der PH Freiburg: Seminar in subject Textile Culture – Contemporary
Quilt Artists and Community Textile Projects.
Students will also have the opportunity to develop and create a piece of textile art together.