MARE 

A NOMADIC ART SCHOOL

MARE is an experiment, a leap of faith,  the execution of an idea first seeded in Stockholm nearly 10 years ago after I had been running an experimental art space  - Konstapoteket out of my  atelier.  This seed was then germinated during the last Conjuring Creativity conference in London when I was considering what I could really bring to the table regarding facilitation around Art, Esotericism and Ecology.

This is an attempt at forging a forked path, encouraged by initiatives such as TOMA (The Other MA) and Open School East, sourcing deep inspiration from Dartington and Schumacher College alongside an awareness that we need places where deep academic discussion and research can co-exist alongside non orthadox theory and practice regarding magick and esotericism. 

It might take time to germinate fully, but it feels that, considering the time we are living through,  this idea has to come into being now.

This urge to facilitate and strengthen knowledge in these areas is birthed out of over 25 years personal experience of teaching and facilitating art, working with all ages and backgrounds, often outside of the academy.  With an inherent desire to foster space for post colonial, post capitalist learning, one which incorporates a combination of contemporary methodology and discourse in equal reverance with esoteric and magical/indigenous wisdoms.
To create a space where as artists we can re-concile lost knowledges supressed during the suposed time of Dis-enchantment.

M.AR.E has at it’s core an intention to recognise, honour and work with the entanglements of Magick, Art & Ecology through a serious of seminars and workshops, and eventual longer course.  

There is no academic goal or product outcome, rather a hope to activate and facilitate individuals to realise the potential they are capable of through their art making, and how this in turn has the potential to facilitate re-alignment, re-conciliation and co-creativity with our other than human beings and the planet.

Recognising the strength in authoring our own narrative, alongside the inherent truth in Myth when HIStory has failed us,  this school strives to practice a non patriachal, non cartesian hegemony of radical pedagogy and interspirit connectivity.


ABOUT THE FOUNDER  

Geraldine Hudson 


With a vocational background in socially engaged and therapeutic arts practice (working often with those on the margins of society) alongside early environmental activist work and involvement in ‘counter culture’, I had always kept my own art practice quite separate from my teaching work.

During my printmaking M.A  (20 years ago)  I started looking at states/philosophy of the wild, transgressions and individual freedoms in relation to the apparant human severeance from ‘nature’  ...  and after a a series of exhibitions  called ‘human nature’  which examined certain European cultural historys in line with contemporary alienation. I soon began researching the land enclosures and the English Witch Trials which coincided with me rediscovering my own esoteric practice. 

Living in Stockholm at the time enabled me to finally weave together these  3 strands of my self together.  I was lucky enough to meet some amazingly dedicated and inspirational artists working with magic/k, esotericism and spirituality, which gave me the courage to start Conjuring Creativity (a series of conference events addressing art and esotericism) 

It was after holding the last Conjuring Creativity in London and being asked by attendees what was coming next, that I decided now is the time to take a leap of faith and assimilate my own practices into my role as an artist educator.   

If you’d like to know more abut my own art practice then please visit

https://linktr.ee/enidlareg


I welcome all dialogue and possible collaboration from any interested minds, artists, esotericists, ecologists, psychologists .... anyone else interested in this path,  and can be contacted via ghuds004@gold.ac.uk or conjuringcreativity@gmail.com



M.AR.E workshops are either taught/facilitated by myself, at times with other practitioners who are all exerts in their individual field.

The longer school course includes different guest tutors/practitioners