Morley School is an interdisciplinary art school for 21st century creators of all ages. We teach skills that help you thrive in a rapidly changing world.
Making the classroom a democratic setting where everyone feels a responsibility to contribute is a central goal of transformative pedagogy. ¹
Morley School was born out of a collaboration of an artist duo called Morley House, which began at Cambridge University in 2018. The founders, Dinara Asadulina and Christos Kakouros, are artists and educators with 15+ years of successful international experience.
Dinara Asadulina is a writer and a social entrepreneur. She completed her MPhil in Democratic Leadership and Education at Cambridge University as a Chevening and Cambridge Trust scholar. Everything she does comes from direct experiences of the everyday. The themes she explores as a writer span topics of trauma, being genuine, and existing with complex cross-national identities. She explores that through teaching art and writing online and in-person. She also dances and draws small animals, fruits, and other recurring elements when she is not writing or teaching.
Christos Kakouros is an artist and an architect working at the crossroads of visual art, literature and design. His work spans multi-disciplinary forms and themes, exploring topics of human connection, grief, loss and the joy of being alone or with others. Paintings, sculptures, books and often furniture or interiors are the result of that practice. Christos works with Dinara, a writer and an art educator, as part of their artist duo, Morley House. They also live together as a couple. He gained soft and hard skills at Cambridge University, where he completed an MPhil in Architecture.
Found Flower, 2023.