RM Sánchez-Camus (Marcelo) is a creative practitioner, organisation lead and developer, coach and mentor.

In 2015, he founded the Applied Live Art Studio, an action research studio that has designed a collection of projects and resources that can be viewed on website. Through his work he aims to uncover personal and social narratives while giving a space for reflection. His practice incorporates community co-authorship with a focus on co-creation, participation, psychogeography, and creative health & wellbeing.

Marcelo’s research and practice unfolds in two strands: participatory governance and cultural democracy. His focus is on working collaboratively with communities, sector support, research and organisational strategy to help improve participatory practice.  

He was Head of Delivery for Public Engagement and Learning at Imperial War Museum, co-lead on an AHRC EDI Fellowship producing research findings around inclusive access and arts policy. From this he published Socially Engaged Art in a New World Order,  Journal of Cultural Management and Cultural Policy (2023). 

His exhibition From Birth till Death: Scrolled Life Stories was nominated for Museum + Heritage Awards, Exhibition of the Year 2021. From this experience he published Community Engagement as Museum Exhibition in Engage: The International Journal of Visual Art and Gallery Education, Issue 45 on Class and Inequality (2021). His work can be found in the permanent collection of the Museum of London.

Marcelo also worked as part of a clinical team at St Christopher’s Hospice, specialising in arts and health. From this he published The Art of Dying: Aesthetics and Palliative Care in the Journal of Applied Arts & Health, Intellect Journal Vol. 2 Issue 2 (August 2011). He has created and delivers the Central Saint Martin College of Art & Design Short Course: Creative Health & Wellbeing through Artmaking since 2020.

An important strand of his practice is the building of support and exchange systems for artists, curators, activists and scholars working in creative industries. Marcelo is the co-founder of various national and international networks and collectives including: Social Art International Berlin, Social Art Network UK, Coalition of Creative Artists NYC, Lotos Collective London. 

He has organised and run various conferences and symposia including: Objects of Engagement (2008), Facing Death Creatively (2015 to 2018), Social Art Summit (2018), Social Art Assembly (2019 & 2023).