Unencumbered by style or commerce, my approach to making art is resolute on focusing attention to structure and unity, the development of spatial tension, to colour, shape and placement; ultimately using all of these to express emotion. These principles guide my technique, confidently grounded in gestural abstraction, to produce works that are primarily about how I see my environment and how I feel in it.
Constant, thorough observations of my surroundings are transposed onto canvas, wood or paper using paint, ink, crayon and pencil along with sanding, scratching and scrubbing; removing then reapplying media until satisfied that each work expresses exactly what I wish it to.
represented by
Galleria de Marchi – Bologna
education
2017 Certificate of Extended Practice – Victorian College of the Arts – The University of Melbourne
1997 Graduate Diploma in Visual and Performing Arts – RMIT University, Melbourne
1984-1988 Diploma of Arts – Victoria College (Swinburne University), Melbourne
memberships and associations
National Gallery of Victoria, Heidi Museum of Modern Art, National Association for the Visual Arts, Contemporary Art Society of Victoria, Environment Education Victoria
solo exhibitions
2017 currently untitled (new small works), Tacit Contemporary Art, Abbotsford, Australia
2017 al pha bet, Pg2., Richmond, Australia
2015 island clouds / treasured maps, Pg2., Richmond, Australia
2003 nowhere else, Moor Street Art Gallery, Fitzroy, Australia
2002 life within, Moor Street Art Gallery, Fitzroy, Australia
2000 new works, Vivurtu, Westgarth, Australia
1999 lush, The Stage, Fitzroy, Australia
group exhibitions
2020 Sm’Art Fair 2020, Parc Jourdan, Aix-en-Provence, France [Postponed]
2020 20[2020], Tacit Galleries, Collingwood, Melbourne, Australia
2019 The Illusion of Reality, 2019, Galleria de Marchi, Bologna, Italy
2019 Little Treasures 2019, Galleria de Marchi, Bologna, Italy
2019 Linden Postcard Show, Linden New Art, St. Kilda, Australia
2019 small!, fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, Australia
2018 The Roi Prize (Finalist), Roi Building, Fitzroy, Australia
2018 Camberwell Art Show, Swinburne University – Hawthorn, Australia
2018 A1, Bundoora Homestead, Bundoora, Australia
2017 VCA Group Show, Besser Space, Collingwood, Australia
2016 (Finalist) Maritime Art Awards and Exhibition, The Mission to Seafarers, Docklands, Australia
2016 Small Works 2016, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Australia
2016 40 x 40 2016, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Australia
2014 Life Aquatic 20 x 20 Exhibition, Stockyard Gallery, Foster, Australia
2006 – 2011 Linden Postcard Show, Linden Gallery, St Kilda, Australia
2006, 2007 9 x 5 Walker Street Gallery, Dandenong, Australia
2006, 2007 (Finalist) He who…Art Prize, Walker Street Gallery, Dandenong, Australia
2003 Group Show, Moor Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Australia
2001 fruition, Montsalvat, Eltham, Australia
1998 Faith Works, NGV, Melbourne, Australia
1997, 1998, 2000 Artists Advent St John’s, Southgate, Australia
career history
Mark is an experienced graphic designer and illustrator, lecturer in visual and performance art education and currently working as a visual and performing arts practitioner based in Northcote, Victoria, Australia.
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