About
Dee Honeybun is a London based artist and educator working with digital moving-image and photography. Practice-based research examines moving images in the cityscape, specifically those in retail fashion and apparel shop windows to explore sets of relations between networked images, the built environment, and the body. Collaboration is part of Honeybun’s approach, most recently working with a movement practitioner.
The origins of her research into surface, object and the body can be traced back to her MA in Ceramics. An interest in thresholds, surface and the body led to works that explored sites of connection. At the time, this manifested as universal objects such as door handles, door jambs, thresholds… Text made its way into her practice with tag lines from magazines. When she started working with film, the sites of connection became the body.
History
An introduction to the process of making films came when working as an assistant animator, following graduation with an MA Ceramics from Cardiff Metropolitan University. Several years later, as a creative practitioner in schools, a collaborative project working with stop-motion animation soon became the first of many film-led projects. Then in 2013 experiments with editing led to new explorations with moving image and sound. Dee was awarded winning film, Experimental Category, Walthamstow International Film Festival 2014.
Recent films include:
Transitional States | Art Licks Weekend
Papertrail | with poets Mike Sims and Julia Bird | A collaborative film/poem project
Ian Byers | The Tension Of Materials; a commissioned film for artist Ian Byers. This film was made with the intention of shining a light on a body of new work by Ian Byers. Ian was filmed and interviewed at EVE Gallery, Edenbridge, Kent. The work on display brings together various modes of expression; drawing, printing, found objects, ceramic sculptural form, and a crude sensual use of clay.
Creative Educator
Dee has many years experience as an artist educator using animation/filmmaking and the visual arts, planning and delivering workshops and projects to engage participants in the creativity process, stimulate curiosity and inspire learning. Dee builds projects in a collaborative way taking into account different learning styles. Experience is broad and includes working with early years, schools, young people with special educational needs, family learning and community groups alongside planning and delivering out-reach work with museums and public bodies.
Photography
Alongside working in education, Dee has extensive gallery experience. She is currently the in-house photographer for a central London ceramics gallery, working part-time as part of a small team. Over the years Dee has had direct involvement with the many aspects of running a gallery.
Education
Arts Award Advisor
2018/2020 – MRes Artists Moving Image – Central St. Martins (Distinction)
1994/1995 – MA Ceramics – Cardiff Institute of Higher Education
1982/1986 – BA(Hons) Three Dimensional Design – West Surrey College of Art & Design
Recent Exhibitions/Events
2019 | Papertrail | Opening event and screening | The Horse Hospital, London,
2019 | Transitional States, Art Licks Weekend | London
2019 | Tate exchange | Central St. Martins
2018 | Friday Lates, The Wallace Collection. Screening ‘Probably, maybe, not really, whatever’ with artists from the 2017/2018 LUX Critical Forum.
2017/2018 | LUX Critical Forum member
2017/2018 | Ian Byers | The Tension Of Materials | Creative Documentary
2017 | Screening ‘Probably, maybe, not really, whatever’ | Films About Places, an evening of artists’ short films, at the West Hampstead Community Centre.
2017 | Margaret Gardiner Vapour Glaze Ceramics Film.
2017 | Speak Machine | Video and Poetry | Participatory project with Forest Poets and The Pumphouse Museum Walthamstow.
2016 March – Sporta’ability’ Screening at Vestry House Museum, Walthamstow
2015 July – Sport’ability’ at the Walthamstow Garden Party.
2015 May – Probably,May be, Not Really, Whetever (2014) screened at Empire, Walthamstow.
2015 May – Probably, May be, Not Really, Whatever (2014) – screened at the BFI, London.
2015 May – Probably. maybe, Not Really, Whatever (2014) – Winning film in Experimental at the Walthamstow International Film Festival.
2015 May – Lega’say’ and Horizons – Rectory Roxy – as part of the E17 Art Trail.
2015 May – Sport’Ability – Ceremony and screening – Whitefields Schools and Centre.
2014 – Probably, Maybe, Not Really, Whatever 2014 – Digital HD moving image video
2013 – We Have Therefore Decided – Flicks, The Jetlag bar, London
2013 – We Have Therefore Decided – Digital HD moving image video
2013 – Absolutely Me – Digital HD moving image video
2012/2013 – Lega’say’ A community project to record stories of 2012
2011 – Community Walk, Springhead Park, Kent
2009 – Close Knit, The Changing Room Gallery, London
2009 – In Situ, E17 Arts Trail, Walthamstow, London
2008 – Momento, E17 Arts Trail, Walthamstow, London
Recent Teaching/Other employment
2017/2019 | PHSE Workshops Yrs7-9
2018/2019 | KS2/KS3 | After School Club
2018 | PHSE The Fundamentals of Money – Five one hour workshops engaging pupils in filmmaking, creating short information films.
2017 | ‘The Art of Visuals at St. James’ Park’ Mall Galleries – Lead artist. Borrowing ideas and techniques from photography, participants captured the diverse faces of St. James’ Park, from its flora and fauna to the abstract elements that make it such a unique shared space.
2017 | Photography – Margaret Gardiner
2017 | The Science of Behaviour (T-Shirts and the Self) – Five one hour workshops engaging pupils in creative activities exploring aspects of identity
2017 | Stop motion workshop | KS2/KS3 | After school club
2017 | Photography – Jo Almyer
2016 | Back To Our Futures – An intensive creative project exploring Transition with pupils from a primary school in west London. Collaborating with Sarah Phillis and Femi Oyeniran for Future Creative, Deal.
2016/2015 – Craft Potters Association – Photographing studio ceramics master classes www.craftpottersassoc.co.uk/professional-development/
2016 – Artsmart Arts Award with year 5 students Eastside Educational Trust
2015 – Verse Vs Verse Eastside Educational Trust. Delivering stop motion sessions with Year 5 students from three primary schools.
2015 – Verse Vs Verse Eastside Educational Trust. Co-designing the over arching structure for Verse Vs Verse Autumn 2015 – Launched in September 2014, Verse vs. Verse takes 500 children on a 3-year journey of discovery through reading. 2015 introduces stop motion animation to the students in year 5 https://verservsverse.wordpress.com/
2014 to 2015 – Sportability. A participatory project using the creative process and sporting activities to uncover and celebrate personal abilities. Recording oral histories and using stop motion animation to make a short film. Screening Autumn 2015.
2015 – Eastside Educational Trust – Adobe Youth Voices Mentor.
2013 – Stop motion animation workshops with young people with special needs.
2012 – Arts Awards; running stop motion animation workshops and filmmaking workshops.
2012 – Filmnation; working with young people from a Kent school to make a short film inspired by the Olympic Values.
2011 to 2012 – Future Creative; Heritage 100 Museums Project, Southampton.
2010 to 2011 – Future Creative, Kent. Creative Practitioner; Artist/Filmaker working with schools and the community.
2008 to 2011 – A New Direction, London. Creative Practitioner; Artist/Filmaker working with schools.
2007 to 2012 – Waltham Forest Borough Council. Artist/Filmaker working with schools and the community.
Dee Honeybun is a London based artist and educator working with digital moving-image and photography. Practice-based research examines moving images in the cityscape, specifically those in retail fashion and apparel shop windows to explore sets of relations between networked images, the built environment, and the body. Collaboration is part of Honeybun’s approach, most recently working with a movement practitioner.
The origins of her research into surface, object and the body can be traced back to her MA in Ceramics. An interest in thresholds, surface and the body led to works that explored sites of connection. At the time, this manifested as universal objects such as door handles, door jambs, thresholds… Text made its way into her practice with tag lines from magazines. When she started working with film, the sites of connection became the body.
History
An introduction to the process of making films came when working as an assistant animator, following graduation with an MA Ceramics from Cardiff Metropolitan University. Several years later, as a creative practitioner in schools, a collaborative project working with stop-motion animation soon became the first of many film-led projects. Then in 2013 experiments with editing led to new explorations with moving image and sound. Dee was awarded winning film, Experimental Category, Walthamstow International Film Festival 2014.
Recent films include:
Transitional States | Art Licks Weekend
Papertrail | with poets Mike Sims and Julia Bird | A collaborative film/poem project
Ian Byers | The Tension Of Materials; a commissioned film for artist Ian Byers. This film was made with the intention of shining a light on a body of new work by Ian Byers. Ian was filmed and interviewed at EVE Gallery, Edenbridge, Kent. The work on display brings together various modes of expression; drawing, printing, found objects, ceramic sculptural form, and a crude sensual use of clay.
Creative Educator
Dee has many years experience as an artist educator using animation/filmmaking and the visual arts, planning and delivering workshops and projects to engage participants in the creativity process, stimulate curiosity and inspire learning. Dee builds projects in a collaborative way taking into account different learning styles. Experience is broad and includes working with early years, schools, young people with special educational needs, family learning and community groups alongside planning and delivering out-reach work with museums and public bodies.
Photography
Alongside working in education, Dee has extensive gallery experience. She is currently the in-house photographer for a central London ceramics gallery, working part-time as part of a small team. Over the years Dee has had direct involvement with the many aspects of running a gallery.
Education
Arts Award Advisor
2018/2020 – MRes Artists Moving Image – Central St. Martins (Distinction)
1994/1995 – MA Ceramics – Cardiff Institute of Higher Education
1982/1986 – BA(Hons) Three Dimensional Design – West Surrey College of Art & Design
Recent Exhibitions/Events
2019 | Papertrail | Opening event and screening | The Horse Hospital, London,
2019 | Transitional States, Art Licks Weekend | London
2019 | Tate exchange | Central St. Martins
2018 | Friday Lates, The Wallace Collection. Screening ‘Probably, maybe, not really, whatever’ with artists from the 2017/2018 LUX Critical Forum.
2017/2018 | LUX Critical Forum member
2017/2018 | Ian Byers | The Tension Of Materials | Creative Documentary
2017 | Screening ‘Probably, maybe, not really, whatever’ | Films About Places, an evening of artists’ short films, at the West Hampstead Community Centre.
2017 | Margaret Gardiner Vapour Glaze Ceramics Film.
2017 | Speak Machine | Video and Poetry | Participatory project with Forest Poets and The Pumphouse Museum Walthamstow.
2016 March – Sporta’ability’ Screening at Vestry House Museum, Walthamstow
2015 July – Sport’ability’ at the Walthamstow Garden Party.
2015 May – Probably,May be, Not Really, Whetever (2014) screened at Empire, Walthamstow.
2015 May – Probably, May be, Not Really, Whatever (2014) – screened at the BFI, London.
2015 May – Probably. maybe, Not Really, Whatever (2014) – Winning film in Experimental at the Walthamstow International Film Festival.
2015 May – Lega’say’ and Horizons – Rectory Roxy – as part of the E17 Art Trail.
2015 May – Sport’Ability – Ceremony and screening – Whitefields Schools and Centre.
2014 – Probably, Maybe, Not Really, Whatever 2014 – Digital HD moving image video
2013 – We Have Therefore Decided – Flicks, The Jetlag bar, London
2013 – We Have Therefore Decided – Digital HD moving image video
2013 – Absolutely Me – Digital HD moving image video
2012/2013 – Lega’say’ A community project to record stories of 2012
2011 – Community Walk, Springhead Park, Kent
2009 – Close Knit, The Changing Room Gallery, London
2009 – In Situ, E17 Arts Trail, Walthamstow, London
2008 – Momento, E17 Arts Trail, Walthamstow, London
Recent Teaching/Other employment
2017/2019 | PHSE Workshops Yrs7-9
2018/2019 | KS2/KS3 | After School Club
2018 | PHSE The Fundamentals of Money – Five one hour workshops engaging pupils in filmmaking, creating short information films.
2017 | ‘The Art of Visuals at St. James’ Park’ Mall Galleries – Lead artist. Borrowing ideas and techniques from photography, participants captured the diverse faces of St. James’ Park, from its flora and fauna to the abstract elements that make it such a unique shared space.
2017 | Photography – Margaret Gardiner
2017 | The Science of Behaviour (T-Shirts and the Self) – Five one hour workshops engaging pupils in creative activities exploring aspects of identity
2017 | Stop motion workshop | KS2/KS3 | After school club
2017 | Photography – Jo Almyer
2016 | Back To Our Futures – An intensive creative project exploring Transition with pupils from a primary school in west London. Collaborating with Sarah Phillis and Femi Oyeniran for Future Creative, Deal.
2016/2015 – Craft Potters Association – Photographing studio ceramics master classes www.craftpottersassoc.co.uk/professional-development/
2016 – Artsmart Arts Award with year 5 students Eastside Educational Trust
2015 – Verse Vs Verse Eastside Educational Trust. Delivering stop motion sessions with Year 5 students from three primary schools.
2015 – Verse Vs Verse Eastside Educational Trust. Co-designing the over arching structure for Verse Vs Verse Autumn 2015 – Launched in September 2014, Verse vs. Verse takes 500 children on a 3-year journey of discovery through reading. 2015 introduces stop motion animation to the students in year 5 https://verservsverse.wordpress.com/
2014 to 2015 – Sportability. A participatory project using the creative process and sporting activities to uncover and celebrate personal abilities. Recording oral histories and using stop motion animation to make a short film. Screening Autumn 2015.
2015 – Eastside Educational Trust – Adobe Youth Voices Mentor.
2013 – Stop motion animation workshops with young people with special needs.
2012 – Arts Awards; running stop motion animation workshops and filmmaking workshops.
2012 – Filmnation; working with young people from a Kent school to make a short film inspired by the Olympic Values.
2011 to 2012 – Future Creative; Heritage 100 Museums Project, Southampton.
2010 to 2011 – Future Creative, Kent. Creative Practitioner; Artist/Filmaker working with schools and the community.
2008 to 2011 – A New Direction, London. Creative Practitioner; Artist/Filmaker working with schools.
2007 to 2012 – Waltham Forest Borough Council. Artist/Filmaker working with schools and the community.