BODY and PLACE 2022

Led by tutors Martin Morris and Josh Armitage in the grounds of Owlpen Manor, a private 200 acre estate in the Cotswolds, Gloucestershire.

2022 Participating Artists

Julie Beech, Poppy Field, Hannah Leighton-Boyce, Anna Chapman Parker, Diana Terry, Ines Teles, Abi Spendlove, Lisa Vandy, Alice Wilson, Alison Wilding.


2022 Selection Panel

Participating artists were selected by theCoLAB Director Claire Mander and a panel of experts in the field of drawing including Mary Doyle, Drawing Room; Ketty Gottardo, Courtauld Institute of Art; Roger Malbert, writer and curator, author of books on contemporary drawing; Nina Wisnia, artist and Patron of the Arts.


2022 Tutors

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.

Martin & Josh teaching methods over 4 intense days has unleashed an energy and authenticity in my expression as an artist that I didn’t know was in there. I don’t think I can go backwards from here, and I intend to incorporate this in my architectural practice.

- Julie Beech

My practice will be revolutionized by this experience in that I will start being more confident and courageous.

- Diana Terry