CLAIRE ATHERTON
Community Arts Producer Creative Health Researcher
Eco-Artist
Recent Projects
Previous Projects
Caister Community Spoon (2023)
Facilitated a community project, to design and produce a community mural. celebrating heritage and community values at Caister Community Spoon.
Freedom Yoga Retreats (2023)
Facilitated a creative session for a group of Yoga instructors to learn helpful creative techniques to still your mind and body and realign your mind and body.
Creative Arts East (2023)
Produced a month long creative programme of sessions as part of the award winning arts, health and wellbeing 'Our Day Out' project run by Creative Arts East.
Under Open Sky (2022 - Present)
Produced sessions as part of the Coasters Project, a coastal nature-connection programme for adults, exploring our relationships to the changing coastal ecosystem through arts, creativity, wellbeing and citizen science activity that helps to nurture nature-connection.
Say It With Stitch Great Yarmouth
(2020 - Present)
Craftivism project run by a collective of artists, myself included, providing regular community workshops from our base at Wastesmiths.
Great Yarmouth Libraries Holiday Club (2022)
Produced a week long creative programme of sessions inspired by the community garden at Great Yarmouth Library as part of the Holiday Fun Club.
Make, Grow & Mend
(2023 - 2024)
Facilitated a year long community project, to design build and grow a community garden celebrating biodiversity and eco-arts practices.
Big Norfolk Holiday Fun Club (2022)
Produced sessions at PrimeYarc in Great Yarmouth as part of the Big Norfolk Holiday Fun Club. An activity programme that provides holiday activities for children and young people aged 5-16 throughout the holidays.
Fishermen's Chapel Artisan Markets
(2017-2020)
Designed, facilitated & promoted regular artisan markets, to allow local artisan makers an entry platform to market.
Fishermen's Chapel Art Gallery
(2017-2019)
Curation & facilitation of Artist's gallery space within the Chapel
Creativity Club
(2018 - 2019)
Weekly art class for both adults (& children during school holidays) at The Fisherman's Chapel.