Gabriel Shields Hanau

EVENTS FACILITATOR • FREELANCE • FEB 2024-NOW

Crowd control, welcoming members of public & ensuring health and safety for large scale cultural events including Festival of the Sea, GY (Swans Production) & Spilsby Night Light (Sessions House).

HANDBALLER • BEST CONNECTION (LINEAGE) •FEB 2024-NOW

Very physical tasks include stacking pallets up to 24kg in weight per box; good listening and team player skills; solid arithmetic and organisational capabilities used daily for this job in logistics.

PRODUCTION OPERATIVE • STAFFORCE (YOUNG'S) • MAY - DEC 2023

Working 12 hours shift patterns; operating precision tasks in fish processing such as pin boning and basic filleting (incl. knife training). Other tasks include picking orders requiring fast thinking and planning.

COLDSTORE OPERATIVE • MANPOWER (ICELAND) • JAN 2023 - MAY 2023

Demanding work environment including temperatures of -20 Celsius. Booking in the delivery of pallets from the coldstore to the factory and vice versa; high level coordination between myself and all line team leaders.

CULTURAL WORKER • FREELANCE • 2021 - NOW

Fulfilling a wide variety of roles including building exhibitions, transporting valuable artworks across countries and creating original performance and video art exhibited across the UK, France, Switzerland and Bulgaria. Recipient of St Hugh's Artists Respond Award 2024 & CreateNEL development fund.

BA • JUNE 2022 • HEAD-GENEVE (CH)

A bachelor degree in visual arts from one of the leading arts universities across Europe. Highlights include creating and performing original work in a professional theatre context; coordinating student-led workshops; writing an original thesis and debate for graduation.

FRENCH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE DIPLOMA • 2017 • UNIL (CH)

Acquiring not only an excellent comprehension of syntax, grammar, pronunciation and composition in French but going beyond the fundamentals to express original ideas with nuance.