About Jim Elliott
I am a community artist and proud of it.
I specialise in facilitation, workshops, collaboration and fun.
I have worked with all kinds of people to create all kinds of things.
Across Wales and England I have led projects in hospitals, prisons, pupil referral units, day centres, toddler groups, youth clubs, museums, support groups, arts centres, theatres, madrasas, residential care homes, night shelters, mental health services, festivals, young farmer’s clubs, universities, challenging behaviour units – and hundreds of mainstream primary and secondary schools.
My approach is largely the same with each group I meet: treat people as individual human beings and find out how best to serve their creativity.
I enable people to use live-action film to make drama, documentary and digital story telling.
With groups, I love working with stop-motion animation, often using clay, paper, toys, models and other “real” objects. I love the instant results this way of working yields, but on longer projects I can facilitate drawn and computer-generated animation.
As part of film-making, I lead workshops in scriptwriting, using Photoshop, sound recording, music composition and recording, sound effects, editing, visual effects and graphic design.
I have run all of the above activities as stand-alone workshops.
I am well used to documenting and continuously evaluating my work.
I have been learning Welsh for several years and although far from fluent, I often make and edit Welsh language films, animations and radio programmes.
