The Folkestone Academy & Linda Jane James

The Year 9 students explored different ways to interpret the ‘World of Work'. They wanted to be inventive and playful with ideas that might suggest new ways of working in the future. They wanted to produce work that would be exciting and inspire young people to engage with the world of work. They worked with surrealism and traditional collage cut-and paste methods, initially to create imaginary characters with curious job titles, transforming these further into a digital format, learning new skills in photo manipulation.

Linda is a practising fine artist with an eclectic and broad range of skills in photography, drawing, collage, painting through to mixed media installations. Often using found materials and found situations she uses an awareness of different ways of thinking to help students become enquirers into what it means to be a creative and independent learner. Using her experience as artist-in-residence in corporate settings, Linda helps mentor young people to develop an understanding of the workplace and gives guidance on developing business opportunities.