Meet The Team
The dot-art Schools programme has been developed by dot-art, a Liverpool based arts organisation which has been supporting artists and developing innovative and creative visual arts projects and initiatives since 2006. In 2012 we were approached by a Liverpool school who asked if we could develop a way to showcase the art work of talented school children in the same way we do professional artists. Since then we have been using our skills, experience and expertise to give the young people of the region access to an exciting public platform for their creative output, and a taste of the way the art world works.
The team includes three staff and an invited panel of judges who help shortlist and select the winning artwork entries.
Meet The Team
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Lucy Byrne
Managing Director
dot-art was founded by Lucy Byrne in 2006. An Art History graduate from the University of Liverpool, Lucy has a wealth of experience in planning, developing and implementing a wide range of visual art projects, coupled with an extensive contact network of artists and partners across the North West.
About The Panel
Our judging panel of respected arts professionals reviews literally hundreds of entries online and shortlists the top three entries from each school. Following a public vote for the shortlisted entries, the entry with most votes from each school wins a place in the annual exhibition. Our guest judge then selects the overall winners and runners up at the exhibition and announces them at the prize giving ceremony.
Judging Panel
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Adele Darlington
Guest Judge
Adele Darlington has over 20 years of experience as a primary school teacher in the UK and is now a popular author and art consultant helping schools, trusts, teacher training providers and education partnerships devise and deliver high quality art and design experiences in their settings. As well as working in schools, Adele delivers keynote speeches, workshops and seminars at education conferences, sharing her passion for art in the primary school.
During lockdown, Adele helped 100s of schools, teachers and children through the creation of her ‘outdoor art boards’ which were shared freely on her social media pages. The boards gave suggestions for art activities to carry out for home learning and are still widely used today. To date, they have been downloaded over 29,000 times!
As well as writing the book 100 ideas for Primary Teachers: Art published by Bloomsbury, Adele is a regular contributor to Teach Primary magazine, is working on her second book title Primary Art in Action and her own primary art curriculum.
