MARIE-LOUISE PLUM PAINT + COLLAGE / ANALOGUE + DIGITAL
Selected Exhibitions
2020
#VirtualVisions for the William Blake Festival
2018
Moore Plum - Paintings, Music & Things, Stash Gallery at Vout-O-Reenee's,
London.
Imitation Solero - group exhibition curated by Broken Grey Wires, The Soup Kitchen, Manchester.
2017
Suburban English Magick - solo exhibition, live painting & audio installation, CCCA, Coventry.
2016
Silver Linings - group exhibition, curated by The Unseen Emporium/Victoria Tischler, Koppel Project, London, UK.
One Bare Foot Square - group exhibition, curated by Uncooked Culture, Amsterdam Outsider Art Museum, Netherlands.
What Goes On In the Mind - Mental Spaghetti/AIMS group exhibition, Town Hall Gallery, Oxford, UK.
The Mind Machine - Mental Spaghetti group exhibition, Menier Gallery, London, UK.
2015
Mental Spaghetti Roadshow - group exhibition, Studio 3 Arts, London, UK.
2014
New Folk Visionaries - Pack of Wolves group exhibition, E17 Art Trail, London, UK.
2012 - 2013
Once Upon Again - Pack of Wolves group exhibition, Winns Gallery, London, and Milkwood Gallery, Cardiff.
2011
H A P P Y L A N D – Sole exhibiting artist at Postcards Festival, Jacksons Lane Theatre, London, UK
2010
Space Made Live - Small Media Large curated group exhibition for West End Festival, Category 'A' Bank Repository, Glasgow, UK.
Selected Performances
2015-2016
Roving Diagnostic Unit - Performance tour with Bobby Baker and Daily Life Ltd, Shuffle Festival, London, UK, and, William Morris Gallery, London, UK.
2014
The Lights Are On - Live painting and recorded audio performance, group exhibition, Fox Court, London, UK.
2014
Running With Wolves - masked performance tour, Pack of Wolves group exhibition, Stockholm Fringe Festival.
2010
Mask! - Masked performance and installation, curated by Sarah Ruff, The Old Police Station, London, UK.
Selected Workshops & Teaching
2021
Greenwich in 50 Objects - presentation on mudlarking and social history for the National Maritime Museum.
2020
Freedom to Express – series of workshops aimed at SEND children, Free Space Project, London, UK
2018
Royal College of Art – Guest lecturer, 'Fr-iction' Visual Comms PHD group
Queen Mary University - Guest lecturer, Creative Arts & Mental Health
2016
Workshop Residency – series of drawing, printing, crafting workshops, Free Space Project, London, UK
William Morris Gallery 'Late' - performance for Daily Life Ltd, William Morris Gallery, London, UK
''Diagnostic Portrait of a...' - drawing workshop for Daily Life Ltd, Vestry House Museum, London, UK
The Dragon Café/Mental Fight Club – Panel guest, ReThink Psychiatry
2014
39 Hoe Street - drawing workshops for The Big Draw, London
2013
Bournemouth University – Guest lecturer, 'Mental Health in the Media'
Running with Wolves - Mask-making workshop, Stockholm Fringe Festival, Netherlands.
2010
Scottish Mental Health Arts & Film Festival – Illustration workshop, Edinburgh, Scotland
Published Work
My work has been published in Caterpillar Magazine, Thrill Murray Colouring Book, Middleboop Magazine, Forest Fringe, Big Team Scribble, 69 Love Songs Illustrated.
Selected Press
Painting of the Month, Le Document | Chris Tosic/ Harry Pye
Interview, Obras De Arte, Brazil | Juliana Vannucchi
'Creating Happy': About Mental Spaghetti | Laura Barton, The Guardian
The Mind Machine, exhibition Review | Judith McNicol, Raw Vision
The Mind Machine, exhibition Review | Colin Hambrook, Disability Arts Online
What Goes On In the Mind, exhibition Preview | Oxford Mail
What Goes On In the Mind, exhibition Review | The Oxford Times
I use traditional and futuristic methods to create images, words and video that provoke uncertain yet recognisable feelings.
My practice is informed and inspired by looking to the past to see into the future: I search for answers by collecting information, disseminating, making sense and order. My work is an ongoing quest for truth.
I employ a multi-disciplinary approach, using found images, film, poetry, prose, field recordings as well as traditional painting and print to produce narrative, suggestive art pieces.
Of particular interest is human behaviour, responses to trauma, loss and letting go, sense of self, and, of place.
Through my work I invite the viewer in to a world they might already recognise, but subconsciously shy away from.
For press release and full CV including public engagement and curation projects please send a request by email.