Curious Minds

Profile of a Practitioner - Paul Gent

Paul Gent, one of the practitioners who attended the Market Place event, specialises in drawing, painting, cartoon, and murals in Cultural and Community Cohesion projects. Based in Liverpool, Paul has worked extensively with children from many different backgrounds in the UK, and also in India, Palestine, Rwanda and Kosovo. By allowing new ideas and suggestions from all pupils and staff, each project results in a ‘hands on’, organically driven process

 

Paul recently ran a consultation project to mark Holocaust week.  Collaborating with primary schools and a poet, the process covered Humanities, History, Literature and Art in one exciting creative package. At the exhibition, teachers who viewed the work went on to plan a similar project with secondary schools. Paul has also worked with young people to develop a visual resource challenging attitudes towards crime. The school children decided to produce a 'crime awareness top trumps game'. The game has since been used as a stimulus for drama projects that help schools empower young people to make the right decisions.