Xaverine Bates
Starting her life full of music, Xaverine learnt the piano from an early age as well as singing and becoming an accomplished cellist. Having studied Anthropology & Philosophy, she worked and travelled in Poland, Israel, Egypt, Nepal, Greece, Tanzania and India and lived and worked as a teacher in Mexico for 2 years. She qualified as a primary school teacher on the Fast-Track teaching scheme and worked as Art Coordinator at a local primary school where she lead art workshops such as the Virtual Herbarium project, an art-internet project which linked local children in St. Leonards with those in Talimi Haq school for street children in Kolkata, India. She co-founded the Kids' Factory with Naima Nouidjem, a not-for-profit organisation offering free art workshops to children from black & minority ethnic backgrounds & low-income families in Hastings & St. Leonards. Xaverine has lived in St. Leonards for five years and is studying Fine Art at Hastings College as well as working with the English as an Additional Language service as a teacher of primary children. Xaverine is committed to educating children in the wealth of knowledge and understanding available through the arts as well as sustaining a vibrant and diverse community which celebrates tolerance, understanding and peaceful communication.
Exhibition of her Paintings