BODY and PLACE 2027
07 - 11 June 2027
In 2027, BODY and PLACE will return 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.
2027 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.
2027 Tutor
2027’s BODY and PLACE residency will be 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
“What made this residency different for me was the way it approached the body through both visual observation and sensory experience, and how this was connected to the natural landscape. It encouraged me to think about our own bodies in relation to the environment around us and to explore drawing more than through observation but also as a process to explore movement, sensation and sound. Rather than focusing solely on representation, the residency opened up ways of drawing that were rooted in embodied experience and connection to the landscape, which I found both enriching and inspiring.”
- Vanessa da Silva
“I found myself thriving in a mindset detached from an outcome-oriented focus. This offered a vital liberation – not only for the hand, body, and mind moving the line on paper, but also from the demand for surface aesthetics or conventionally presentable results. While the insights from these exercises will undoubtedly unfold over time, the immersive, process-led nature of the experience has already left a lasting impression.”
- Gudrun Krebitz