Centre for Creative Explorations

Introducing our for 2024 💥 check out her profile on the CCE website. Nazneen has been developing a project in collaboration with our young creatives and we are now preparing to share in September! Watch this space for updates!

The Digital Futures exploration is now up on the CCE website - link in bio - where you can view all aspects of the creative research undertaken with artist in residence and Maud, Enam and Ava. This was our first residency that used dance, movement and film as a medium to explore current issues We are looking forward to sharing the thoughts and findings of this research with our SLT in the summer term and discussing what Digital Futures look like in the context of our school and how we support young people in navigating this unknown terrain.

It was such a privilege to be able to support the and Visualise report and discuss the findings at last weeks launch event. It makes for stark reading and vital for anyone connected to the arts and art education to reflect on where we are and how we can move forward. If you haven’t already do check it out.

are busy setting up for our final Digital Futures exhibition tomorrow! 4.30-6.30pm with a Q and A at 5.50pm. Here’s a sneak peak!

Final exhibition for our Digital Futures project with in collaboration with students from HGAED. Exploring young peoples relationship with social media and the internet through dance movement and installation. Come along next Tuesday to the South London Gallery, see poster for details. RSVP if you want to join us!

Digital Futures our 2023 artist residency with is drawing to a close. The final film is being edited and we are looking forward to sharing with you all later this month Thanks to the brilliant Maud, Ava and Enam who have collaborated on this project over the year.

New year treat to have this paper published in with the wonderful Seeders group, a cross institutional practice research group. Loved the experience of writing collaboratively with Ana Vicente Molly Pardoe Ben McDonnell Mareia Ludevid Llop Jonathan Martin and Sara Otolani.

Incredible last session with our yr13 youth ambassadors celebrating all their creative achievements with the Authoring Your Own Stories project. Such a fantastic opportunity, we are so proud of you all!! Thank you Sandra for approaching the CCE to work with our amazing young creative activists!

Just three more days to apply for the CCE artist in residence! See the website for the exciting past projects!

Wonderful trip to see our birds made in collaboration with and to explore the rest Studio Lenca’s work. Conversations around migration, belonging, privilege, materials and even ballet hopefully will inspire the next generation of creatives. But a kiln would help even more! So the birds are being sold to raise funds for a kiln for our school. They are selling fast so get yours now! 💥

'Flock' is a collaboration between Studio Lenca and Harris Girls Academy, located in Peckham.

In exchange for a £100 donation, you will receive a unique hand printed bird made by a student at the school in collaboration with Studio Lenca. All funds donated will go to the school's Art Department.

50 birds are available.

The school is fundraising to buy a kiln and increase access to the arts for all. Free arts provision was transformative for Studio Lenca as a student and teacher.

This project addresses the theme of migration using the metaphor of a flock of birds.

Students from the school have contributed by hand printing birds, and the kinetic sculpture they create will mimic a moving flock. The complex, harmonious and choreographic energy of the birds acts a celebration of unity and different forms of knowledge.

A flock of birds is formed through an embodied relationship between nature and culture. Information and belonging creates movement 'in-formation'. Something experienced by the artist within his own Latinx community.

Please note:
The bird print you receive will be unique and signed by the artist. It will differ from the image pictured. The print will be flat mounted onto 150gsm Canford paper in bright green.

Shipping costs include packaging and transaction fees. All prints will be shipped at the end of the exhibition (4th November, 2023).

Very proud of our A level artists and their participation in the Authoring Your sown Stories project, a funded opportunity to work with . They have received training to become youth ambassadors exploring themes of civic identity and belonging. They lead creative workshops with young people of Black and Asian heritage who attend youth clubs across Lewisham, Lambeth and Southwark to explore these themes and the importance of community. Well done Natasha, Moshood, Ling, Yezi and Cameron!

Farewell Amsterdam! Great day spent sketching the architecture then and we especially enjoyed the rocking horse sculpture by Marcel Wanders. Now we journey back!

Incredible workshop and visit to the very poignant considering the similar age Anne and of our students. Incredibly moving experience.

What an incredible treat to have come in to lead a workshop with our students exploring themes of migration. Very excited to see how our flock of birds will be incorporated into your next exhibition! Thanks .l.i.v.e.r_t_h for guiding us through the process it was so much fun! together

Very proud of our yr13 artist researchers who led creative sessions exploring themes from the need for fantasy films in 2023, challenging ideas of the traditional hero, social media and its impact on childhood and raising awareness around ocean pollution. Various methods were used such as collage, origami, drawing, blind drawings and water pouring! Thanks to everyone who came to support, it’s always exciting to be part of and speaking to our local community.

Fantastic first workshop led by Maud, Enam, Ava and discussing our Digital Futures project, leading a conversation around feelings about our future selves

Come and find out about our latest creative research project Digital Futures - today unit 8 in the Bussey Building!

We are excited to be part of the again this year, sharing our creative research practices with the local community. This year exploring with come and join us in the community hub, unit 8 in the Bussey building to help celebrate the work by our young artists

Always looking for new hanging solutions, and the meat hook might be the next trick! Thanks for the inspiration 💥

Then to explore the Beatriz Milhazes before a trip to the beach to do sand drawings 😊

How AMAZING to visit today with our budding yr9 creatives. Hearing about Jose’s thought process, the layers of materials and meaning and the opportunity to be part of a future art work! It was truly fabulous. Now off to the Turner!

Looking forward my last talk of the academic year tomorrow, and discussing all things CCE! Always a joy to share the incredible creative research by the inspirational young people at wish me luck!

Come and work with us and help develop an inspirational textiles course! Job details on the school website, any questions ask!

Looking forward to planning the first of two teacher CPD sessions today with sharing the anti-racist check lists at the next teacher event. If you are curious to start an anti racist journey in the classroom, or want to explore your ideas further in collaboration with others go to their website to book a place.

Lovely day to see exhibition, an artists who inspires our young creatives at with beautiful reminders of our shared humanity and the power of the arts to communicate complex issues with poetic simplicity. Also wonderful to learn about Mary Watts and her incredible legacy of designing a church for and with the local community. A really special place. Go if you get the chance!

Exploring identity and self portraiture through installation. Love the energy created in this session, playing and thinking with materials is always a winner. Also love the disruption of the usual classroom 😁

Support the teachers, support the dire need for better funding, stop the cuts, the increasing class sizes, the diminishing of support staff, the lack of resources, and therefore the subsequent inequality that will shape the future of so many of our young people.

We are looking for a two day a week art technician to join our wonderful team, please check out the Harris careers website to apply or DM for a link!