About
Award winning filmmaker, Dee Honeybun, lives in London and works across documentary, moving image, and community participation. She is currently working with poets Julia Bird and Mike Sims on a collaborative film-poem project, and has recently finished a short documentary with artist Ian Byers exploring his most recent works in clay.
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:
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.
Speak Machine 2017; Dee worked in collaboration with Forest Poets (the E17 based poetry collective) and The Pumphouse Museum (devoted to the technology, transport and industrial history of Walthamstow and the Lea Valley) on a participatory project which brought together industrial heritage, poetry, and stop-motion animation
Margaret Gardiner | Vapour Glaze Ceramics; a commissioned film for vapour glaze ceramic maker Margaret Gardiner. Over several weeks Dee followed Margaret as she decorated, glazed and fired her hand thrown porcelain ceramics. The 25-minute film gives an insight into Margaret’s history, how she developed her passion for working with clay and her making processes.
Alongside commissioned and participatory projects, her personal practice explores a continuing preoccupation with communication.
Creative Educator
Dee works as an artist educator using animation/filmmaking and the visual arts. She has many years experience planning and delivering workshops and projects to engage participants in the creative 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
Dee photographs studio ceramics at Contemporary Ceramics Centre, a retail gallery for the Craft Potters Association, for exhibitions, promotional material, and social media. She specializes in Ceramics and contemporary craft and can be commissioned for photography and filmmaking.
Rates
For commissions and inquiries please email dee.honeybun@gmail.com
Education
Arts Award Advisor
MA Ceramics – Cardiff Institute of Higher Education
BA(Hons) Three Dimensional Design – West Surrey College of Art & Design
Recent Exhibitions/Events
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
2018 | Miniature Sets | 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.
Award winning filmmaker, Dee Honeybun, lives in London and works across documentary, moving image, and community participation. She is currently working with poets Julia Bird and Mike Sims on a collaborative film-poem project, and has recently finished a short documentary with artist Ian Byers exploring his most recent works in clay.
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:
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.
Speak Machine 2017; Dee worked in collaboration with Forest Poets (the E17 based poetry collective) and The Pumphouse Museum (devoted to the technology, transport and industrial history of Walthamstow and the Lea Valley) on a participatory project which brought together industrial heritage, poetry, and stop-motion animation
Margaret Gardiner | Vapour Glaze Ceramics; a commissioned film for vapour glaze ceramic maker Margaret Gardiner. Over several weeks Dee followed Margaret as she decorated, glazed and fired her hand thrown porcelain ceramics. The 25-minute film gives an insight into Margaret’s history, how she developed her passion for working with clay and her making processes.
Alongside commissioned and participatory projects, her personal practice explores a continuing preoccupation with communication.
Creative Educator
Dee works as an artist educator using animation/filmmaking and the visual arts. She has many years experience planning and delivering workshops and projects to engage participants in the creative 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
Dee photographs studio ceramics at Contemporary Ceramics Centre, a retail gallery for the Craft Potters Association, for exhibitions, promotional material, and social media. She specializes in Ceramics and contemporary craft and can be commissioned for photography and filmmaking.
Rates
For commissions and inquiries please email dee.honeybun@gmail.com
Education
Arts Award Advisor
MA Ceramics – Cardiff Institute of Higher Education
BA(Hons) Three Dimensional Design – West Surrey College of Art & Design
Recent Exhibitions/Events
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
2018 | Miniature Sets | 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.