WELCOME TO THE MENAGERIE

Hi there!
We are Artist Educators who have been running our Design, Art & Storytelling classes for children, teenagers and adults for over 10 years. Our classes for children aged 5 and up, seek to develop both creative design thinking alongside foundational art skills. We run puppet workshops that encourage making, imagination and storytelling.

Lorna Gallagher

Lorna Gallagher is an Artist Educator who works across many disciplines including animation, printmaking, paper cutting and illustration. Lorna has extensive teaching experience; as well as The Menagerie, she works freelance in many contexts from schools to museums to community engagement projects. She has over seven years experience in the primary classroom and is currently working towards Professional Recognition for expertise in the arts. Lorna is studying for a Masters of Education in Teaching the Arts at the Royal Conservatoire Scotland, where she is researching how children understand artworks and inclusion in art education.
Lorna has full GTCS registration and is registered on the PVG scheme.
You can see her current art practice and freelance art education projects here: www.lorna-love.com

Susan Roan

Susan Roan is an artist/illustrator and lecturer in Communication Design at Glasgow School of Art. She is a graduate from Glasgow School of Art and the Royal College of Art, where she studied Communication Art and Design. She was awarded a distinction in her PG Cert in Learning and Teaching from the University of the Arts, London. Her practice-based research explores historical and contemporary representations of childbirth. She was recently short-listed for the Jerwood Drawing Prize.