Mark Baldwin Obe

Mark Baldwin is a dancer and multi media artist specialising in Painting and it's relationship to Choreography. Former Artistic Director Rambert Dance Company London from 2002-2018. He was born in the British Colony of Fiji. As a young child his Fijian mother took him with her to the ballet which she loved. At Art School he fell in love with the American Abstract Expressionists and the work they were doing with the great American choreographer Merce Cunningham and the composer John Cage.
The scholarship he won in his first year at art school paid for the extensive training he undertook to become a highly trained dancer.
Today Mark Baldwin makes lush often paired down paintings. They take the viewer into a world of a shapes which to him represent the human body, curving or bending into the picture space. The paintings go beyond the body evoking moods, gardens, sunlight and stories. He works between London and Silves in the Algarve Portugal. The paintings exist in time and space changing with the light. They represent a life time of work. The struggle for perfection and musicality, they carry memories and experiences pulled from the black hole of creativity. Presently he is Academic Visitor University of Cambridge in the Department...

St. Kentigern College Auckland New Zealand. Suva Grammar School Suva Fiji. Pakuranga College, Auckland New Zealand.
Elam School Of Fine Arts Auckland University New Zealand.
Founder Limbs Dance Company, New Zealand Ballet, EMMA Dance Company UK, Rambert, Mark Baldwin Dance Company, Rambert Artistic Director 2002-2018, Mark Baldwin Studios. Inala world tour. Has choreographed for the Staats Oper Berlin, Royal Ballet, Royal New Zealand Ballet, Phoenix Dance Company, Australian Dance Theatre, Rambert, Scottish Ballet, Resident choreographer Sadler's Wells, Mark Baldwin Dance Company, Cisne Negro Brazil, Dance Company of Argentina, Saarbrucken Staatstheatre, Amsterdam. Recent workshops in Colombia, China, Turkey. Film and TV, Pointe Blank, Frankenstein, The Wedding, Echo, Labyrinth, So You Think You Can Dance. BBC The Space The Creation (still live Rambert's take on Haydn's the Creation). Currently Academic Visitor in the department of Psychology University of Cambridge 2022, 23

Embodied Knowledge at Bermondsey Project Space January-February 2019.
www.markbaldwinstudios.co.uk
Extensive workshops in China to accompany Inala.
Mark Baldwin OBE Saatchi online.
Instagram@markphillipbaldwin
Melody Space Elmhurst Ballet School, Messiah Eliot Smith Dance. Melody Space for The Willows School Academy Trust, a school for social, emotional mental health children 2001-2023.