BODY and PLACE 2025
09 - 13 June 2025
In 2025, BODY and PLACE returned to Owlpen Manor, a private 200 acre estate in the Cotswolds, Gloucestershire for four days of exploratory workshops led by tutor Martin Morris featuring model Silvina Pierina
2025 BODY and PLACE drawing residency
The residency offers an opportunity for artists of all disciplines, including sculptors, and at all stages of their careers, including those who do not normally or regularly draw from the figure, to work under the guidance of skillful and passionate tutors in extraordinary surroundings. Open to artists nationally and internationally, and students enrolled in post-graduate study from MA level and above.
2025 BODY and PLACE Residency Recipients
Henny Acloque, Claye Bowler, Adam Chodzko, Daisy Collingridge, Emma Cousin, Adam Dant, Lela Harris, Jane Hayes Greenwood, Caitlin Hazell and Emilie Taylor
2025 Selection Panel
Participating artists were selected by theCOLAB director Claire Mander and a panel of experts in the field of drawing including ; Sarah Dwyer, artist; Luce Garrigues, London Art Week; Ketty Gottardo, Courtauld Institute of Art; Roger Malbert, writer and curator; Chris Stephens, Director of the Holburne Museum and Holly Stevenson, artist.
2025 Tutor
2025’s BODY and PLACE residency was led by tutor Martin Morris featuring model Silvina Pierina.
Martin Morris is a renowned as an innovative and effective educator in the field of drawing. He is a skilled draughtsman, animator and proponent of new technologies. He leads courses at art colleges including Kingston, the Royal College of Art and Farnham, as well as creative agencies Ogilvy and Mather. He collaborates with the Drawing Room in London, RISD USA and has facilitated cultural exchanges with the Fine Art Animation Course at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna. Morris formulated the BODY and PLACE residency programme in collaboration with theCOLAB in 2019.
His practice and research focuses on drawing and pedagogy through drawing, exploring its utility as a way of developing creative insight within educational and creative industries. Core interests are the history and processes inherent in drawing and methods of using them to ignite creative insight in the individual and the group.
Image credit Alice Hendy
“The residency was an incredibly nourishing, brain busting and exciting week in absolutely stunning setting with a beautiful bunch of artists. The tuition was really engaging yet challenging at the same time. It took me out of my comfort zone and helped me to connect to the landscape and the body in a totally new way.”
- Lela Harris
“I think the greatest impact will be the inspiration I gained from the residency, in terms of approach to drawing and the passion and drive of the other artists.”
- Caitlin Hazell