Working with artists: Mudlarks
“We all have ideas. They come to us at odd moments of the day, often when we are not thinking directly about the problem in hand. Ideas for most people are not an issue. The issue is how we translate those ideas into form.”
Simon McBurney
Mudlarks is Complicité’s first ever dedicated programme to identifying and supporting outstanding artists, often at the early stage of their career. We want to help push back the pressures of target driven activity and rebel against the urge to define something as soon as it is conceived. Our aim is for the programme to provide artists with the freedom to follow their fascinations, and go to the hinterland of their idea.
Mudlarks provides artists who share elements of Complicité’s practice such as ensemble work, working across multiple disciplines, and across borders, with the tools they need to interrogate an idea and find a shape or form that truly serves the work.
Mudlarks encompasses a series of programmes including Mudlarks International Residency, Supported by Complicité, Developed with Complicité and Mudlarks: Young Devisers. All of these strands have internationalism and environmental sustainability at their heart.
While we don’t issue specific call-outs for Mudlarks artists, we are interested in meeting artists whose work has a focus on environmental sustainability and/or internationalism. We aim to hold slots for a handful of informal artist chats each month and are particularly interested in meeting artists from underrepresented groups, artists based in Gloucestershire and artists who are exploring and embedding accessibility into their practice.
If you would like to enquire about a chat or to invite us to see your work, please email rima@complicite.org – we’d love to know a bit more about what you do and why you feel your practice aligns with ours. We are a small team and are limited in how much work we’re able to see, but we will get to as much as we can.
© Ali Wright
