On the 18th of November 2019, The Creative Dimension Trust unveiled their 2019 Collaboration, Supernature - a puppet fashion show, during an exciting event at Bonhams Auction House in Mayfair, London. Introducing the evening, founder and CEO of The Trust, Penny Bendall, said that the collaboration ‘...
On Saturday 18th January 2020, Creative Dimension Trust alumnus, and winner of the 2019 Annual Achievement Award, Jay Patel, was invited to speak to young people at the Southbank Centre Creative Careers Day. During an afternoon of panel discussions, career advice and workshops, students were given the opportunity to discover routes into creative jobs that they might never have known existed. Joining panellists from Frieze Magazine, Hannah Barry Gallery, Bold Tendencies and 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning, Jay spoke about the positive work that the Creative Dimension Trust...
Buckingham Palace once again hosted one of The Creative Dimension Trust's many workshops. TCDT students had the unique opportunity to learn some of the core skills needed in furniture and wood working careers, direct from some of the best people in the industry. Video courtesy of Royal Family. [video width="1080" height="1080" mp4="https://thecreativedimension.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/The-CDT_Penny-.mp4"][/video]...
One of our past students, Ilia Chakarov, was recently given the fantastic opportunity to work at the State Banquet that took place at Buckingham Palace in June 2019. Ilia talks below about his experience: Having worked and helped out at the Silver Pantry in Buckingham Palace has taught me many new things which I can benefit from regarding my future projects, things like correctly preserving and maintaining a proper polish on precious metals or learning how to correctly organise tableware for an event. Probably the...
The Creative Dimension Trust was one of a few charities invited to showcase its work at the 60th anniversary celebration of the Garfield Weston Foundation at the Banqueting House, London on 12th November....
Exhibition of The Creative Dimension Trust student work commemorating the one hundredth anniversary of the end of World War 1...
Over the last few years there has been a significant decline in the creative subjects being taught in schools. Whilst this is having an affect on the crafting sector, it is also having an impact in other areas, such as in the scientific and medical sectors....
TCDT tutor and artist Helen Pailing has a passion for working with discarded materials and taking a different stance on our relationship with waste....
The importance of drawing not only applies to traditional crafts such as painting and sculpture, but further afield into engineering, architecture and even cardiology....
Jay Patel is one of our very talented alumni, with a great skill in architectural drawing and spatial practices. We caught up with him to see how he is developing his skills further....