Arts Council England's Lets Create Strategy - a-n The Artists Information Company

Venue: England
Location: East Midlands

What hasn’t changed with Arts Council England’s’ new ‘Lets Create’ strategy is their inclusivity and diversity. They’re isn’t any. They remain a wholly inclusive organisation of graduate arts administrators delivering their funding to a wide range of graduate artists and graduate art administrators to the benefit of University Business Plans. Leaving divergent thinking real artists excluded from their funding by their elitist condescending Higher Education biased group think. You can have any culture, art, artist you like as long as it’s a read-write Higher Education convergent thinking one. These outcomes will no doubt be further grown through the implementation of Governments’ levelling up agenda supporting initiatives across the Midlands and the North. With ACE funding used to insert regional university graduates into Arts Culture deficit Midlands and Northern areas to pollute then supplant their existing arts culture by inculcating their convergent thinking University approved artists, art and culture. Rather than organically growing the arts and culture already there. To who’s benefit is this colonisation, a sort of HE University Arts Culture Convergent thinking Gentrification that makes the University sector richer, existing divergent art, artists and England’s culture poorer?

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marcus clarke

“My life’s work in puppetry, children’s television and art creation has all been about connecting with the inner child”. When Marcus Clarke was 14 yrs of age his Step Father worked the night shift at the local Raleigh bicycle factory and his mother was a cleaner in a Care Home. He is Neurodivergent, ADHD. A Cancer Survivor described by DDA. Care Experienced 6 yrs. Including in two National Children's Homes. See the Observer Newspaper Article. Review section about Care Experienced Achievers in which he says, “I decided early on that whatever happened to me, I wasn’t going to be a victims of it”. With regard to his art he says “I use Puppets, Puppet Making materials, tools and glues from my world of work as a Professional Puppet Maker. Puppetry performance objectives, skills and talents from my work as a Professional Puppeteer. Observations from my work as a Backstage Theatre Technician from 1974 to today and I combine these with my Fine Art skills and knowledge. Added to since my teenage years as an art student at Mansfield College of Art. I use canvases, paints and drawing materials. I include found objects, puppets, toys, photo's, antiquities. Jewelry and junk to create imaginative, aesthetic and entertaining art. Sometimes as Paintings, Collages, Assemblages, Films and Installations. My art is not particularly Academic or Analytical. I’ve previously explored the space between the street light and the kerb. Nowadays it's my own self expression drawing on my own life’s experiences and curiosity's. Informed by those of my audiences. By Culture, History, Performance, Theatre and other Artistes and Artists including Duchamp, Degas, August Sander, Gerard Garouste. I want my artwork to inspire people of all ages to be creative, to make art about what they know or don't. Drawing on their world of work, their lives, dreams. I want to encourage Teenagers who don't feel suited to read-write Higher Education, for whatever reason, to seek out other creative learning opportunities. Professional work, outlets and careers in the arts". Marcus’s day job is as a Back Stage Theatre Technician. Roady. A job he first did in local Nottingham Theatres while a schoolboy at 16 yrs of age.