Since 2004, Dave has delivered creative workshops and training for schools, community groups and public events, using his artwork to inspire others to explore their own creativity in new and exciting ways. 

His work emphasises the importance of creativity and of embracing an experimental approach that welcomes mistakes and the unexpected as a positive part of the creative process.

Multi-sensory Accessible Activities

Ensuring an equal and accessible experience for all is central to Dave’s practice. He has developed workshop activities and co-created artworks with SEND schools and community groups.

Sessions exploring connections between sound, drawing and movement allow participants to explore their environment in new and exciting ways. Links with Science, History, Geography and English support and enhance delivery across the curriculum.

Spoken Word Instrument

Participants record words, spoken in their own voices, and play them using a bespoke sampler instrument. Visual feedback linked to the instrument can be screened on monitors or projection mapped to specific spaces. Part of Our Town’s Sound project at Shakespeare North Playhouse.

Sound Sculpting

Interactive creative workshop in which participants create a play-doh shape to represent their selected sound. Using music technology, the play-doh is transformed into a custom musical instrument, with participants’ own sounds being played when striking the shapes.

Loop Sound Printing

Creating “Sound Prints” with carbon impressions of a copper wire. The process generated soundscape is based on the shape of the wire and interactions with a theremin, a digital instrument controlled by movement.

Sound Drawing Battle

Two teams compete to get the musical Odd Ball across the opposition’s goal-line using pencils on sticks. The resulting drawing is full of purposeful marks illustrating the attacking and defensive movements of competition.

Recycled Rhythms

Constructing musical sculptures using recycled materials and generating digital and acoustic sounds loops.

MOVE=MUSIC

Interactive sound installation that invites audiences to explore the relationship between movement, sound, and space. Participants use their movements to interact with modular compositions, generating visual and sonic feedback.

Sound Safari

Exploring environmental sounds to create soundscapes unique to specific locations. Combining sounds with experimental instruments triggered through live drawing activities to create abstract films to accompany the soundscape.

Resonant Chamber – Heritage Sound Boxes

Exploring the sonic legacy of local industry. Participants created experimental resonating instruments to compose rhythm loops. Co-created rhythms and melodies were combined for a public artwork at Winsford’s public art trail “From the Earth to the Stars”.

Educational Resources

Celebrating Halton’s Heritage

Heritage Challenge

The Birth of Club Rugby