Flood, David Ogle, 2015

Welcome to Mark Devereux Projects

We collaborate with artists to develop and curate ambitious creative projects

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We provide critique and artist professional development support through mentoring, courses and workshops

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Mark Devereux Projects (MDP) is an independent curatorial and artist development organisation. We specialise in supporting early to mid-career artists through creative collaboration and tailored mentoring.

MDP is a small but devoted team seeking to create safer, braver spaces for artists. Our meticulous approach is founded on listening, trust, honesty and caring. We build critical but nurturing relationships with artists across a variety of artforms.

Marfa Abstraction XVIII, Gareth Kemp, 2020 (made as part of DYCP funded project, supported by Mark Devereux Projects)
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Developing Your Creative Practice fund

29/03/2023 -
29/03/2023
We’re pleased to offer our next online workshop to support artists & creatives who are planning an application to Round 17 of Arts Council England’s Developing Your Creative Practice (DYCP) programme. Taking place on Wednesday 29 March (10-11:30am) and led by Mark Devereux, this workshop will address the core questions helping you create a strong […]
Barrier (Negative Drawing), Hondartza Fraga, 2021 | Image: courtesy of the artist
Mixing It Up

Hondartza Fraga

Artist Hondartza Fraga shares the challenges of balancing a creative practice with having a family, the first piece of artwork she remembers seeing and who she turns to for advice in our next Mixing It Up feature.
Artist Professional Development for Socially Engaged Practitioners, Commissioned by Heart of Glass | Image: Stephen King
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Mentoring

One-to-one sessions are led by Mark Devereux, who draws on his extensive knowledge within curation, artist support, project management and fundraising. Mark provides impartial, considered and tailored support, offering both a critical eye and a strategic focus for artist development. 
New Worlds Are Reached By Shipwreck, Anno Mitchell, 2021 | Image: courtesy of the artist
Artist

Anno Mitchell

Over the last few years Anno Mitchell has been working on themes of shipwreck, exploring what a wreck might be, what it might mean, how it relates to our cultural and environmental history and how a shipwreck might be used as a framing idea to think about our relationship to the world. ‘Shipwreck’ as a thematic starting point allowing me to develop simultaneous concerns; what it is to be wrecked, what it is to salvage something? How can shipwreck be used as a narrative trapdoor into new worlds? How does shipwreck stand as an idea of disaster - or recovery and resilience?