Loraine Morgan-Brinkhurst MBE Co-Creator
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2003 when I was introduced to Kevin Whitney by Ged Roddy MBE and I was inspired by
Kevin’s artistic talents." Loraine Morgan-Brinkhurst MBE, Olympic Arts Project co-creator |
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| Loraine
is a former Mayor of Bath and received her MBE in the Queens Birthday Honours of 2010. She
has many years experience in organising events for charities and businesses. Loraine has a wealth of experience in all aspects of Marketing, Promotions, Events & Project Management & also Sponsorship sourcing, she has worked with many organisations, businesses and charities over the last twenty years and runs an events & promotions company in Bath. Loraine was named winner of the 2008 Bath Business Women’s Association Community Award for commitment and support to Charities and the Community as well as her creation of the Olympic Arts Project. She was named winner of the 'Community Worker of 2008' in the Bath Chronicle 2008 awards and a runner up in the Bath Chronicle 2008/2009 & 2010 'Woman of the Year' awards. In 2003 Loraine was introduced to Olympic artist Kevin Whitney by Ged Roddy MBE Director of Sport at Team Bath, Loraine was impressed with Kevin's artwork and interested to hear about the Mural he created with 50 Bath school children in 1995 when Bath hosted the European Youth Olympics, the mural can still be seen today in Bath Sports Centre. Kevin said he would like to run art workshops and Loraine taking this on board created the Olympic arts project, enabling Kevin with sponsorship to run Olympic themed art workshops in schools and the community. Loraine and her team at Morgan-Brinkhurst Consultancy do all the administration and organisation linked to the project and when they receive sponsorship they arrange the art workshops for Kevin to run. Loraine said " In 2003 when I was introduced to Kevin Whitney by Ged Roddy MBE and I was inspired by Kevin’s artistic talents. I came up with a unique concept whereby Kevin could use his artistic impressions within the schools giving children and young people the opportunity to work alongside a world renowned artist who has been linked to the Olympic games. The workshops would include not only the chance to create Olympic themed paintings and murals but also gave the young people the chance to understand and learn about the Olympics, sport and Greek Mythology, together with meeting successful and inspirational Olympic athletes. We are grateful to our Olympic athlete ambassadors namely Jason Gardener MBE, Mark Foster, Sam Weale and Paralympic Gold Medallist Steve Brunt MBE for their support and enthusiasm and who share their time with us and the young people. Over the last 7 years the project has evolved from not only taking place in Bath (which was the original concept) but now takes place across the UK including exhibitions in participating Cities and Towns. We were excited and privileged to also exhibit in City Hall in London courtesy of the Mayor of London. In 2008 Kevin attended the Beijing Olympics and we were invited in Oct 2008 to visit China and are now looking at linking schools and businesses in the UK with schools and businesses in China to promote this already unique and successful project”. In 2010 Loraine welcomed to the team artists Tim Vyner who attended the Beijing Olympics in his role as an artist and Christine Clare MacCarthy who is also an exceptional artist and painted Super Ted in the 1980's and pictures for Watership Down. |
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