Madeline Churchill

About

I am an artist educator from the UK who has been teaching Art in an international context for the last ten years. My teaching practice is an extension of my creative aspirations which means introducing young people to the limitless opportunities made available through artmaking. Working across media from painting, drawing and sculpture to installation, textiles and digital media, I seek to draw out an individual’s intrinsic potential by stretching their boundaries and providing them with the tools, knowledge and encouragement to realise their vision.

As I reach the halfway point of the MEd Creative Education course, my interests include intrinsic motivation and creative flow within multi-cultural contexts and more specifically, the mindset shift from collectivism to individualism. My recent action research project focussed on how the removal of external motivators can influence abstract mark-making in response to music, which revealed the importance of choice within a supportive learning environment to nurture engagement with the creative process.

As the course continues, I intend to pursue these areas of research alongside the influence of their cultural context. By drawing links between the varied elements unique to international teaching, I hope to reach new conclusions about the broader contribution of artmaking and creative practice on education.