Mark creates complex sculptures featuring animals, horsemen, and vessels. Influenced by archaeology his sculptures resemble ancient ritual artefacts.
He describes his work as ‘Natural-History’; in which themes of deep time, loss and conflict are combined with animal form, and symbolic natural materials.
He says ‘‘My work is a meditation on the fragility of life, and the tragedy of obsolete power.’
Referencing shamanism, horses and other animals are built from the inside out, starting with a skeleton and often including internal organs. The unsettling anatomical look resembles a cyborg or a creature in the stages of reanimation.
A recent series of sculptures; the Horsemen and Memory Vessels, refer to the First World War; commenting on the dangers of Imperialism, and the forces of unrestricted competition which remain dangerous.
His Nightjar Project explores the poetics of camouflage, each bird is made feather by feather out of newspaper.
Mark leading a session at CYZ
