Who are the guides around here?
We’re glad you asked. We’re two creatives with two very different stories, but both passionate about the joy, beauty and wellbeing benefits that creativity can bring
Polly Brown
Polly is a creative adventurer with a degree in 3D design from MMU. With over 17 years’ experience teaching art in secondary schools and art galleries she likes the experimental unknown.
Over the last two decades, Polly has taught printmaking, life drawing, ceramics, textile design, 3D design and Photography - to name but a few subjects. She’s massively passionate about helping kids of all ages to tap into their creativity and express themselves through art making.
Outside of school, Polly loves pushing her own creativity and has recently done a year long screen printing course at Spike Island in Bristol, and mixed media technique sessions with Priscilla Jones and Jennifer Collier. She’s a big fan of creating mini art journals with her own family too.
Career highlights
Pulling an all nighter in a Selfridges window on Oxford St, London. Building a display of my work and secretly trying on couture gowns.
A couple of bonus fun facts
She likes to paint in the rain, enjoys the occasional rave and loves chucking heavy weights around in the cross fit gym.
Kerry Harrison
Kerry is a creative explorer with a passion for fusing creativity, wellbeing and emerging technology.
In 2018, after 18 years as an advertising creative, Kerry co-founded the award-winning agency Tiny Giant and moved into exploring the creative opportunities of artificial intelligence.
Over the course of three years, she helped create the world’s first AI gin crafted an AI Queen’s speech for Wired Magazine and brought the award-winning Cheltenham Science Festival AI curator to life.
Kerry has a PGCE in Primary Education and more recently studied Art Making for Wellbeing at St Martin’s, UAL, Facilitating Writing for Wellbeing with WEA and became a qualified yoga instructor.
She’s now enjoying exploring the wellbeing benefits of art – and teaching others how to play in the AI art space.
Career highlights
Making and sampling AI cocktails for a range of tech events. As you can imagine, it was hell!
A couple of bonus fun facts
Kerry is a yoga teacher, meditates every day and has been known to hug trees while running.