Anne-Marie Creamer

Biography

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.