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Anne-Marie CreamerProfile page
Senior Lecturer
Central Saint Martins
- Senior LecturerCentral Saint Martins
- University of the Arts London, Art Program, Central Saint Martins,, Granary Building, 1 Granary Square,, London, London, N1C 4AA, United Kingdom
BIO
Anne-Marie Creamer is a Senior Lecturer for the Art Programme at Central Saint Martins (CSM) and co-leads the innovative social prescribing hub Making Better with Alex Schady (Programme Director) and Elizabeth Wright (Reader and KE Pathway Leader). Creamer is also a patient-researcher, interested in lived experience as knowledge. She is part of the PPIP board for the Bone Cancer Trust and is contributing to Research Together: Patients Guiding the Future of Science in 2025, both helping clinical researchers understand the perspective of citizens experiencing healthcare and public health. As a champion for integrating art and health, Creamer has convened communities of practice at UAL (previously including the HEARD research hub) and aims to develop and support innovative practices within this emerging field at UAL.
As a visual artist based in London, Creamer's work spans film, animation, drawing, and writing. She explores encounters with overlooked, forgotten histories, delving into how art works can be a kind of “spectral conjuring” creating space for ethical remembering, and inspiring societal change. Following her keynote lecture Bittersweet Belonging: An Impossible Return (University of Gloucestershire in 2022), Routledge’s forthcoming Home, Place, and Belonging Through Arts-Based Research (2025). Her latest project (in research and development), Ghost-Bodies, examines spinal neuroanatomy and numbness, using lived experience to reimagine embodiment and spatial perception.
Creamer’s 2022 solo exhibition at the Sir John Soane’s Museum, Dear Friend, I Can No Longer Hear Your Voice, reconstructed Eliza Soane’s lost bed-chamber, blending CGI animation, photogrammetry, sound, voice, and song to reclaim Eliza’s presence. Co-produced with Animate Projects. The project also included events on death, grief, and creative approaches to memorialising (moderated by the Director of the Wellcome Collection) and artists' strategies in working with historical figures and archives (with Michelle Williams-Gammaker). The exhibition drew nearly 28,000 visitors (more online due to Covid restrictions), was reviewed in Art Monthly and other UK press, and deepened public understanding of a well-loved museum as a site of personal grief and loss.
Creamer studied at Middlesex University and the Royal College of Art. Her early career included impactful roles in London's 1990s artist-led scene and contributions to international galleries and publications. Her accolades include the Derek Hill Scholarship in Drawing at the British School at Rome and residencies and exhibitions at prominent arts institutions worldwide.
UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS LONDON APPOINTMENTS
- Senior LecturerCentral Saint Martins, Art Program, London, UK1 Aug 2021 - present
- Diploma in Professional Practice Pathway Leader, Art ProgrammeUniversity of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins, UG Art programme, London, United Kingdom1 Nov 2016 - 21 Jul 2023
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- External ExaminerNanyang Academy of Fine Arts, fine art, Singapore, Singapore1 Sep 2016 - 5 Jun 2018
- External ExaminerLoughborough University, fine art, Loughborough, United Kingdom1 Sep 2015 - 6 Jun 2018
- 0.5 Acting Lecturer, MFA,University of the Arts London, MFA, Wimbledon College of Art & Design, London, United Kingdom1 Sep 2015 - 16 Nov 2016
- Acting Course Director, MA Drawing,University of London, Wimbledon College of Art & Design, London, United Kingdom5 Jan 2014 - 10 Apr 2014
- Associate LecturerUniversity of the Arts London, Ba Drawing, Camberwell College of Art and Design, London, United Kingdom1 Sep 2008 - 16 Nov 2016
- Associate LecturerNorwich University of the Arts, Fine Art, Norwich, United Kingdom4 Apr 1997 - 14 Oct 2008
- Associate LecturerPlymouth University, Fine Art, Exeter College of Art, Plymouth, United Kingdom7 Sep 1997 - 7 Jul 2001
NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Derek Hill ScholarshipBritish School at Rome, fine art, Rome, Italy1 Sep 2012 - 31 Dec 2012
- Adjunct Programmer of Events & EducationParasol Unit Foundation for Art, London, UK2 Mar 2008 - 30 Nov 2011
- Evelyn Williams Drawing FellowshipUniversity of the West of England, art, Bristol, United Kingdom1 Sep 2003 - 1 Sep 2004
- ConsultantArts Council England, London Arts Board (on setting up the organization ArtQuest), London, United Kingdom5 Apr 1999 - 31 Jul 2001
- Member of the Select Committee on Visual Arts Advisory panelArts Council England, Visual Arts, London, United Kingdom1 Feb 1995 - 30 Nov 1999
- Head of EventsCubitt Gallery, `London, United Kingdom1 Mar 1994 - 1 Sep 1999
- Exhibition CommitteeCubit Gallery, London, United Kingdom11 Jan 1994 - 31 Jul 1996
DEGREES
- MA RCA PaintingRoyal College of Art, London, United Kingdom11 Sep 1988 - 31 Jul 1990
- Ba (Hons) Fine ArtMiddlesex Polytechnic, London, UK29 Sep 1985 - 10 Jul 1988
CERTIFICATIONS
- EURORDIS Open Academy x Erdera Fellow, 2026 - in Scientific Innovation & Translational ResearchEuropean Organisation for Rare Diseases, Paris, France28 May 2026 - presentThis programme, supported by #ERDERA & #EUHorizon, equipping 40 participants/ Fellows globally each year, supported by expert speakers and clinical researchers, from across Europe. The topics covered include: history of genetics, bioethics, diagnostics, new technologies in gene therapy and drug repurposing.
- Fellow of the Higher Education AcademyHigher Education Academy, York, United Kingdom1 Jul 2012 - presentFellow of the Higher Education Academy
POSTGRADUATE TRAINING
- Postgraduate Certificate Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication (PgCert)University of the Arts London, CLTAD, London, UK25 Sep 2011 - 15 Jul 2012Academic Practice in Art, DesignOther
STAFF/STUDENT
- Staff