Placemats by Haringey Creates
About the Creation
Haringey Creates ran screen printing workshops in 5 Haringey schools - West Green Primary School, Stroud Green Primary School, Welbourne Primary School, KS3 Haringey Learning Partnership and The Mulberry Primary School, inspired by the history of the gestetner machine, with the Gestetner works company opening back in 1906 in Tottenham Hale!
The workshops were run by local screen printer Mike Amorelli, who is based at Studio 306 in Wood Green, and the young people made a phenomenal 150 placemats for the Haringey Feast.
Haringey Creates’ project paid homage to prolific artists who lived in Haringey and used screen printing techniques, such as Althea McNish and Oscar Murillo; bringing this creative artform back into schools.
About the Artist
Mike Amorelli
Mike Amorelli is an artist and tutor with over 20 years experience in a range of creative practices, specifically ceramics and printmaking. He trained in Ceramics at Camberwell College of Arts and Printmaking at the London College of Printing.
Mike works with adults with special educational needs including mental health.
For the Haringey Feast, he worked with Haringey Creates to deliver the Feast Placemats project in schools across the borough.
Instagram: ymcalondonceramics
Studio 306
Studio 306 are a group of skilled arts and craft practitioners, who have come together as an exciting community enterprise.
The aim of the studio is to empower disadvantaged local individuals by offering a creative space for those who are recovering from mental illness.
Here they can rediscover forgotten skills, develop new ones and boost their confidence within a working environment.
About the Community
5 Haringey schools took part in screen printing workshops to produce the placemats for the Haringey Feast - West Green Primary School, Stroud Green Primary School, Welbourne Primary School, KS3 Haringey Learning Partnership and The Mulberry Primary School.
Through discovering more about history of innovation in Haringey and its artists, the students fostered a greater connection to the borough.
Haringey Creates provides partnership opportunities between schools and local artists and art organisations.
