Meet the Team

We are a collective of artists, thinkers and doers! Our core team of four have over 90 years’ experience combined, working to meet the play and creative needs of children and young people.

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SIMBI FOLARIN

DIRECTOR/SECRETARY

I am engaged in a transformational learning journey, nurturing a shift in perspective to meet personal and professional challenges. My professional practice and personal passions are connected to the development of initiatives where individuals, groups and communities can explore their relationship with the natural world.

Creating opportunities to connect to the natural environment as fundamental in building a taste for freedom, developing creativity, resilience and resourcefulness.

FAITH PEARSON

DIRECTOR

A visual artist and professional gardener working with communities and individuals to creatively interpret the world around them.

The basic innate human instinct to create and grow is the thread that runs through all my work. I take inspiration from the resourcefulness of individuals to play with ideas.

I work with easily accessible every day, waste and natural materials to create artwork that challenges accepted structures.

 

CHANTELLE FOLARIN

DIRECTOR

I have a passion for making & creating, working across the Birmingham community and in local schools as an artist and crafter, supporting individuals to work with a range of mediums.

An all-round ideas woman, I love working with my hands; I find freedom in being self expressive through creative mediums, in particular up cycling and textiles.

JEMIMA GRAHAM

DIRECTOR

A visual artist with experience of working with families, children and young people in communities across Birmingham.

I am inspired by people and the environment and motivated to support regenerative futures for generations to come. Being part of The Glue Collective allows me to explore my creativity in more innovative and resourceful ways that connect me to the natural world.