R.M. Sánchez-Camus Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London, England, United Kingdom

Designed and deliver the Central Saint Martins Short Course: Creative Health & Wellbeing Through Artmaking.The course shows how the arts can help meet major challenges facing health and social care including ageing, long-term conditions, loneliness and physical activity. The course also explores the difference between art as therapy and creative art therapy. Students produce works of art throughout the course.Registration is ongoing and open each term. 2.5 hours a week over 10 weeks.

London, England, United Kingdom

Social Art Publications (SAP) is an independent publishing house. SAP is dedicated to developing a portfolio of publications to cultivate, expand and promote knowledge in and about social practice.

Applied Live Art Studio (Formed by R.M. Sanchez-Camus in 2015) has over 50 individual projects, developing works that specifically reveal the life stories of marginalised groups in innovative and critical ways. The studio has been commissioned by local health trusts, councils and art charities, including notable bodies of work such as From Birth Till Death: Scrolled Life Stories (2020-2021), a social drawing project created by members of St. Christopher’s Hospice, Arts Network, Three Cs, and an Asylum Seekers Hostel. Exhibited at the Horiman Museum and shortlisted for the Museum + Heritage Award 2021. Roles include running an organisation and the social practice studio; business planning, finances, HR, line management for up to twelve staff members of the creative team, supporting and advising trustees and fostering funding relationships (including correspondence with ACE).

Head of Delivery for Participation, fka Public Engagement and Learning. Developing new 5 year strategy, new evaluative framework, new co-creation framework, refocusing programming to include participatory practice, inclusive storytelling of collections, inclusive terminology, and Pride Network. Plus ensuring smooth running of programming operations. 35 strong team.

During this period, R.M. Sánchez-Camus has worked alongside the CEO, building a new business plan for the charity that focuses on providing arts-based services across the UK. This has included diversifying income streams, having secured funding from new sources such as Artfund, Arts Council England and the Arts & Humanities Research Council as well as maintaining strategic relationships with key stakeholders. Axisweb were granted £10,000 from Artfund for the Social Art Library and £79,000 from Arts Council Project Grant for Social ARTery; Two new platforms launched with the aim to gather and build resources around hybrid/blended participatory art. R.M. Sánchez-Camus was also responsible for the restructuring and redeveloping of Job Designs, allowing all employees to become part of a holistic working team.

United Kingdom

Ensuring the organisation’s future resilience has been key to this role, having successfully received £15,000 from Arts Council for the Social Art Summit and £10,000 from Artfund for Social Art London’s online meetups, that supported creative practitioners working with communities during lockdown. Over 2,000 people per year have participated in the delivery programme, many of which have been young NEETS, adults with mental health conditions and adults and carers living with dementia.

London, United Kingdom

R.M. Sánchez-Camus managed the workshops, events and public programme, notably leading the School’s Project with four Primary Schools and the Brit School, that created intergenerational work between young people and patients around end of life care. Through these initiatives, relationships with local and national stakeholders were developed and an ongoing partnership with Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design was established, providing two students to work on placement on a yearly basis. The Arts Team was also able to secure 15K from Lewisham Council and 15K from Arts Council England Project Grant. This has allowed the presence of the arts to be increased across hospice services, with two medical sites in Sydenham and Orpington receiving valuable funds.

Various

Visiting Lecturer for various universities over 18 years. Topics included Applied Theatre, Making Performance, Staging New Writing,Scenography, Live Art, Site-specific Performance, Politics & Performance, Visual and Material Culture and more.

London, United Kingdom

Creative Producer and Commissioned Artist

World Tour

Production and install management of world tour of the contemporary circus show Urban.

Cali, Colombia

Devised and directed the contemporary circus show 'El Ensueño del Dorado' in collaboration with the final year students of Circo Para Todos.

As Creative Director and Producer of over 12 socially engaged productions, R.M. Sánchez-Camus was responsible for the programming and commissioning of new work as well as managing budgets and contracting staff and the technical team. The Collective was able to raise their profile with an effective communication and audience campaign that saw the implementation of a new Learning and Participation strategy for the Strategies for Teach Arts in Residency (STAR) programme.

During this period, Rich Mix underwent a significant period of change that saw the launch of a new building and business plan. R.M. Sánchez-Camus administered the technical development and needs of a large scale arts venue based in East London, managing the touring exhibition Brick Lane that represented work created by South Asian artists from the area. This was showcased at Lille 3000 Festival of the Arts and helped establish the organisation as a centre of excellence for local arts and culture.

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Phd, Performing Arts Research

Thesis: Applied Live Art

Master'S Degree, Scenography

Activities and Societies: Central Saint Martins College of Art & DesignThesis: Site-specific Performance

Bfa, Fine Arts

Thesis: Interactive Installation