​​Marie-Louise Plum, b.1981 | Interdisciplinary artist, writer and mudlark. I work with museums, arts organisations and institutions including Royal Museums Greenwich, Thames Festival Trust, London's Roman Amphitheatre, St. Paul's Cathedral, London Museum, National Gallery, Royal College of Art and Queen Mary University.

As an artist, writer, and mudlark, I look to the past to make sense of the present, and, possibly, predict the future.
 

My artistic practice is so intertwined with my activities as a river-scavenging mudlark, that it is impossible to treat them as separate entities. One informs the other, and writing tumbles with both.

I'm an all-rounder; I paint, print, collage and draw, I write, make videos and collect. I enjoy blurring the boundaries between traditional and contemporary methods to create provocative works exploring what it is to be human, searching for identity and a sense of place and belonging.

Through images and words I invite audiences to engage with a world they might be familiar with, but are yet to identify. Most importantly, I am asking the viewer to see, think, and consider - what looks different here? What's being said, silently?

I am particularly interested in signs, symbols and subconscious narratives - especially within the realm of dreams and reality. My works often incorporates found items, digital images and field recordings.

Most of my projects develop into long term, conceptual bodies of work, taking an initial idea across disciplines, to find resolution in an organic way through process.

2021 - 2025

Artist Educator and Speaker

Working in heritage and arts sector, various venues including Cutty Sark, National Maritime Museum, St. Paul's Cathedral.

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2021

Greenwich in 50 Objects

Mudlarking and social history seminar

National Maritime Museum London, UK

2020

Freedom to Express

Series of workshops aimed at SEND children

Free Space Project London, UK

2018

'Fr-iction'

Guest lecturer, Visual Comms PHD group

Royal College of Art London, UK

Guest lecturer, Creative Arts & Mental Health

Queen Mary University London, UK

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2016

Diagnostic Portraiture

Drawing workshop for Daily Life Ltd

Vestry House Museum London, UK

Mental Fight Club

Panel guest, ReThink Psychiatry

The Dragon Café London, UK

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2014

39 Hoe Street

Drawing workshops for

The Big Draw London, UK

2013

Mental Health in the Media

Guest Lecturer, Faculty of Media and Communication

Bournemouth University

2010

Scottish Mental Health Arts & Film Festival

Illustration workshop

Glasgow, UK