MARIE THERESA CRICK MA, MRES
Surrey/London ◾ mariecrick@hotmail.co.uk ◾ 07743073426 ◾ Linkedin www.mtcdigitalcreative.co.uk
PHOTOGRAPHER & FILMMAKER
ARTIST | PHD RESEARCHER | EDUCATOR | FACILITATOR | SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER
Investigational, dynamic, engaging and learner-centric creative practitioner and facilitator of experimental and innovative learning, creating spaces for horizontal and collaborative thinking through practical and theoretical experience in photography, film, writing, fine art and theory. Teaching experience began in 2004 and spans eighteen years.
Effective communicator, positively supporting innovation and inclusion while elevating, broadening, and inspiring learners through the exploration of visual storytelling through practice-based activity in analogue and digital formats. Brings extensive experience as a digital media practitioner; creator of both ‘captivating’ and critical theoretical disruptions of content that engages learners and stimulates new thinking. Researcher capable of the deep dive of experimental writing, film and photography as practice whilst decolonising and creating collaborative dissident spaces to think what it is to know.
Education
MPhil/PhD Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths University | 2022 – 2026
My research positions a ‘Feminine-to-Come’, a radical within but ‘not yet’, to offer potentials to reorientate what was transmitted, in forms of ‘shame’ within the Irish Catholic mother and daughter relation, to the present by the displacement of women from the Republic of Ireland to London, in the late 1950s. Thus, seeking to illuminate ‘the livediness’ in the Irish Catholic maternal imagination through a methodology that flows through a re-reading of Luce Irigaray’s shared air, my film practice of watery filmic bodies of breath and movement in collective embodied research spaces, to inhabit a reorientation of ‘fixed’ archives of the Irish State and Catholicism.
I continue to participate in and lead workshops in the special subjects of the Masters in Contemporary Art Theory, leading workshops exploring the hydro-feminine through the poetics of filmic breath, on the second year BA module in Feminist and Queer Technoscience and open workshops for all undergrad students.
Through being a core member of the research collective Counterfield, I have co-facilitated and facilitated workshops which think through my own practice as a filmmaker but also film as a mode to think as it entwines with philosophy.
MRES Visual Cultures, (Distinction) Goldsmiths University | 2021 – 2022
MA Contemporary Art Theory (Merit), Goldsmiths University | 2008 – 2010
BA (Hons) Fine Art (2.1), Kent Institute of Art and Design | 2003 – 2006
Art Foundation, Reigate Art School | 2002 - 2003
Professional Experience
WESTMINSTER SCHOOL | London| Website SEPT 2022 – PRESENT
ART TECHNICIAN PART-TIME / WORKSHOP LEADER
Advanced technical support in Fine Arts and Contemporary Art Theory
Oversee department administration, including budget management
Plan and curate year-round exhibitions and a large-scale summer show
MTC DIGITAL CREATIVE | London/Surrey| Website MAY 2019 – PRESENT
PHOTOGRAPHER, VIDEOGRAPHER, EDUCATOR AND FACILIATOR (PART – TIME)
Founded and built creative service, creating content and teaching for charities, corporate brands, schools and individuals. Commissions include curating and delivering creative corporate and community courses, event photography, marketing films and advising on online marketing channels.
Provides tutoring for private clients, from children to senior learners on contemporary art theory, critical theory, philosophy, technical skills and theory in Adobe, Photography and Film.
‘Thinking With’ seminars – Venice Biennale, Documenta Fifteen, Frieze London
Tailor-made courses for companies – Visual Storytelling, Writing, Photography (Beginners/Advanced) and Film
GCSE and A Level, Foundation, Undergraduate and Postgraduate Teaching – Group and 1 to 1
Event photography and film for schools (including Notting Hill Prep), corporate companies (including Deutsche Bank), charities (including Delight) and private clients. Full list
Social Media management for clients
CATERHAM SCHOOL | Surrey | Website JUL 2006 – MAY 2019
IMAGE AND DIGITAL CONTENT MANAGER / TEACHING | Mar 2018 – May 2019
Management and development of digital marketing through implementing social media strategy, safeguarding guidelines, paid and organic plans, website growth and usability, supervision and support of social media teams and awareness of Google Analytics and SEO. Educated children and young adults in digital media and Adobe programmes.
Curriculum and co-curricular sessions from concept to delivery for Pre-Prep, Prep and Senior Pupils in Film, Photography, Fine Art and Graphic Design
SCHOOL PHOTOGRAPHER AND VIDEOGRAPHER / TEACHING | Jul 2012 – Mar 2018 (Sep 2012 – Jul 2016 Designer)
Created engaging marketing films, digital content and graphic design from concept to completion for the website, social media channels, print and other platforms, such as an Apple iBook, which supported the school in becoming Apple Accredited.
Initiated and built local community partnerships culminating in planning and leadership of a Film Festival attended by 300 people, which included the school and wider community, and film professionals from Channel 4 to documentary filmmakers for ITV and Sky
Tailored teaching expertise to offer inspiring 1-1, group teaching and courses in digital media, including the running of an annual school-wide BBC News Report
RESIDENT DEPUTY HEAD OF GIRLS’ BOARDING / WORKSHOP LEADER | Dec 2012 – Nov 2014
Extensive experience in residential care of senior schoolgirls and managing staff and logistics to ensure the smooth running of a boarding house. Supported the pastoral care of girls and boys aged from 11-18.
Facilitated evening and weekend fine art workshops
Contemporary Art and Theory lectures for Senior boarders
ART AND DESIGN TECHNICIAN AND PHOTOGRAPHER / TEACHING | Jul 2006 – Jul 2012 (Photographer from Jan 2010)
Delivered creative support to teachers and pupils through expert knowledge of Fine Art. Oversaw department administration, including budget management.
Planned and curated year-round exhibitions and a large-scale summer show
Curated and led film clubs, workshops, seminars and holiday schools
Seminar sessions in contemporary art for staff and parents
Internships
Press & Marketing, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London | 2011 - 2012
Event & Marketing, Zoo Art Enterprises, London | 2009
Gallery Management, Sebastian + Barquet, London | 2009
Research Courses and Schools
London Critical Theory Summer School, Birkbeck University | 2021, 2022, 2023
Architectural Association Summer School | 2021
Introduction to Photographic Histories, Photographers’ Gallery | 2021
Art in the Age of Black Girl Magic: Photography & Documentary, Photographers’ Gallery | 2020
Short Course: The Black Image in London Galleries, Black Blossoms, led by Michael Ohajuru | 2020
Digital Marketing Channels Intermediate, Chartered Institute of Marketing | 2020
10 Years of African Odysseys Course: Black Films and White Power, BFI | 2018
Social Media Strategy, Chartered Institute of Marketing | 2018
Anthropology of Spaces, Place and the Built Environment, Goldsmiths University | 2018
Adobe Premiere Pro Masterclass and Adobe After Effects Course, Certitec | 2017
Adobe Photoshop Advanced, ACA + Exam, Illustrator, Adobe InDesign Masterclass Certificate, Certitec | 2016
Experimental Printmaking, St Martins | 2016
Curated and Led Workshops, Courses, Research Events
Graduate Diploma Core Course Histories of Art LAB Workshop, ‘The Feminine-to-Come and Filmic Breath of the Irish Catholic Maternal’, Goldsmiths, University of London | February 2024
Research café - My research in conversation with Esmeralda Valencia Lindstrom's exhibition A Wet Archive, Women’s Art Library in Special Collections and Archives, Goldsmiths, University of London | December 2023
Embodied Research and Movement Workshop ‘Feminine-to-Come’ in the Irish Catholic Maternal and the Poetics of Filmic Breath, ‘Réidhleán’, BA Feminist and Queer Technoscience Module, Goldsmiths, University of London | 4 December 2023
Communal lunch, Thinking the Futures of Counterfield, Goldsmiths, University of London | November 2023
Thinking With 40th EVA International, Ireland’s Biennial, interactive online session for creatives | October 2023
‘The Feminine-to-Come and the Poetics of Filmic Breath’ collaborative embodied research event, Goldsmiths | October 2023
Writing Residency, Counterfield, Brighton | September 2023
Art, Nature, Creative Writing and Poetry Course (6 Weeks), Behind the Scenes Film Course (6 Weeks) and Photography Course (6 Weeks), Legal and General | 2023
Avery Gordon, “Work of Writing” workshop | Goldsmiths Summer 2023
Christina Sharpe, in The Wake reading group, online | 2022
Counterfield workshops – Indeterminate Transmissions, Filmic Bodies and Bodies of Motion | 2022
Film screening - Filmic Breath – Hydro Feminine, Choreo Archive, your archive re-making, Skewed Gallery | 3-7 Nov 2022
Informal ‘check-ins’ and writing practice workshops, PhD students | 2022 to present
Thinking With Frieze London, Documenta Fifteen, Venice Biennale, interactive online session for creatives | 2022
A Thousand Plateaus reading group with MA students, in-person and online |2022
Visual Storytelling Course (6 Weeks), Legal and General | 2022 – present
Mini Film, Photo and Art Theory Course, Advanced Photography Course (6 Weeks), Photography for Beginners Course (6 Weeks), Legal and General | 2021 - present
Created and facilitate ‘Galleries Community Group’, Online and in-person events | 2021 - present
Creative Courses for businesses and general public, online | 2020
One to one A level Film, Photography, Art and Theory sessions, 2019 | present
Teaching art, film and photography lessons, Nagydobronyi Református Líceum hivatalos oldala in Ukraine | 2013 - 2014
GCSE and Year 6 English and Film lessons, Caterham Senior, Prep School | 2012 – 2019
Undergraduate one to one Contemporary Art and Theory sessions |2011 – present
Film and Photography clubs, workshops, seminars, holiday schools, Caterham Senior, Prep School | 2006 – 2019
BA (Hons) tutorials and groups with peers, KIAD | 2004 – 2006
interviews, publications, collectives and participation
Film Society Collective | 2023 - present
Core member of Counterfield (research collective), Goldsmiths, University of London | 2022 – present
Student Rep for PhD/MRes Visual Cultures Students, Goldsmiths, University of London | 2022 - present
BISR Guilt Group, Birkbeck University of London | 2021 – present
Workshops -Stefano Harney and Tina M. Campt, Advanced Practices, Forensic Architecture, Goldsmiths | 2021 - 2022
LS London Society of the New Lacanian School Saturday sessions 2020 - present
Within London – London Artists Interviews, Ep 1 | 2021
Market Tales a Geopolyphony, Geographies, Goldsmiths University of London| 2012
Chair of community book groups, (focus on feminist and speculative sci-fiction) 2012 – present
Co-editor of the Caterhamian publication and photographer for the publications | 2010 - 2019
Group exhibition ‘Fragments’, University of Kent | 2005