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Degard RCA, FRSA

Degard (born in London, 1975) is the founder of the art movement Contemporary Visionary. Degard is a contemporary visionary British 'painter of Auras'. Degard graduated from The Royal College of Art 2019. Degard is studying for a Doctorate in Fine Art in London.

Degard is the curator of the Visionary Brit Museum, the smallest gallery in London located in a heritage site in a red telephone box outside of the British Museum, which receives over 10000 visitors per month.

Degard is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Degard has written and co-written five books on contemporary visionary in art. The First Book of Aethericism (2017), Celebrities and Icons? (2018) both of which are held in the Warburg Institute, The Book of the Dark (2019) and Quintessence of Consciousness (2020) and Aura (2021)

Degard launched the Contemporary Visionary Art movement at an exhibition at The Royal College of Art, Quintessence of Consciousness, with artists including Gabriel Rico, Mark Titchner, Janet Saad Cook and Dominic Shepherd and thinkers, Dr Alan Rayner, Rupert Sheldrake and David Lorimer.

Degard has hosted a series of events at the Royal Society of Arts designed to increase the visibility of the arts called 'Art with...' series. Degard has worked with charities, The Big Issue and Anxiety UK on issues of homelessness and anxiety. Degard has been artist in residence where the work of Alan Davie is held in the UK. Degard is a trustee of The Colour Group UK.

The published essays, ‘Aetheric Energy: the Intangible Source of Human Celebrity?' outlines her thinking and Space and Art: Humanity is Spacefaring 2021  with the Astropolitics Institute is one of the first essays discussing the possibilities of art in space.

References

https://www.bigissue.org.uk/news/2018/may/10/degard-art-exhibition-10-proceeds-big-issue-foundation

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42087-018-0021-y

https://www.thersa.org/events/fellowship-events/2019/06/rsa-rawthmells-art-with...-homelessness

https://www.bigissue.org.uk/can-art-help-combat-homelessness/

https://www.colour.org.uk/art-bartholomeus-anglicus-or-anglicanus-aura-conscious/

https://vrpm.captur3d.io/view/degard/degard

https://www.hertfordartshub.org/whats-on-content-only/degards-artists-statement

Degard (n.d.). The First Book of Aethericism.