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MARE is an ongoing experiment, a leap of faith in world building and alternative education

It is the execution of an idea first seeded in Stockholm over 10 years ago whilst I was running an experimental art space  - Konstapoteket.
This seed then germinated during the last Conjuring Creativity conference in London when I was considering how I might facilitate knowledge sharing and practice within Art, Esotericism and Ecology.

These seminar workshops are the first step towards forging a forked path, encouraged by initiatives including TOMA (The Other MA) and Open School East, sourcing deep inspiration from organisations such as Dartington Trust and Schumacher College, alongside other grass roots groups I’ve been involved with  along the way.
This initiative is born of an awareness that we need places where enquiring academic discussion and research can co-exist alongside less orthodox theory and hands-on practice.  The investigation of magick and esotericism occurs through a lens of ecological kinship communicated through art practices, specifically when considering contemporary art as a meta discipline.  

One of the main motivations behind this model is a need to reconcile cosmological ecologies, and the other biological entities we share the planet with, on a material and spiritual plane. With a knowledge that artists/creators and educators are often at the frontline of paradigm shifts - there have already been instances such as the forest school movement, started in Sweden which has recently been adopted in the UK,  and the emergence of university courses in Art & Ecology,
I feel that that in general these courses are often simply not financially viable for many, and therefore that running high quality one off workshops and courses affords opportunity to bring this current into our communities,  


The 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. This is underpinned by an inherent desire to foster space for post-colonial, post-capitalist learning which incorporates both contemporary methodology and discourse, while equally revering and resonating with esoteric and indigenous wisdom traditions.
The nomadic art school seeks to create  space to re-concile lost knowledges  supressed during the supposed 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 series of seminars and workshops, and eventually longer courses.  

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  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 Ceartesian hegemony of radical pedagogy and interspirit connectivity.