Mark Thompson

Joined Artfinder: Nov. 2014

Artworks for sale: 51

(2)

United Kingdom

About Mark Thompson

 
 
  • Biography
    My primary drive as an artist is to try to make sense of my place in the world. Through the caprices and inconsistencies of memory, I hope to access a kind of collective memory of place.

    I do not seek to illustrate a particular place in point of fact, but rather develop and ultimately ‘make‘ a version of the world seen through the isolation of personal memories. The mind/body distinction - the phenomena of the mind seeming to look out at the world from behind the eyes – forms the basis of my attempt to understand and record the world through my own consciousness. 

    The paintings in particular are works of memory – the slow development or exposure of a photograph being both a useful metaphor and an actuality in my practice. The filter of memory appears to retain only what is personally important, and the inevitable mix of my own history and experience fills in the gaps. Only that which remains is important – the extraneous and fleeting are not registered. The final image is therefore a remnant, the world distilled. This remembered world inevitably fades and decays, and I catch all I can before there is nothing left. This is my starting point. 

    The long stretches of time needed to make both paintings and photographs, complement the slow filtering process. My preoccupation with making photographs during the last moments of the day, for example, is part of that process; the extended moment – the un-decisive moment – allow the image to become a record of time passing. There is an inherent melancholy in this as each image is something already gone. It is the seeing of things for the last time.
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  • Education

    1993 - 1997

    The Slade School of Fine Art

  • Awards

    2004

    Villiers David Award

    Travel Scholarship

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    2002

    Galleri Ryvarden Residency

    Live and work residency at Ryvarden Lighthouse, Norway

    2002

    The Gilchrist-Fisher Award

    National landscape painting prize

    2000

    The Florence Trust Residency

    Year's residency at the Florence Trust, Highbury, London

    1998

    The Rootstein Hopkins Travel Scholarship

    Travel Scholarship - destination: Scandinavia

    1997

    The Duveen Travel Scholarship

    Destination: Iceland

    1996

    The Margaret Pulsford Book Award

    Book Award - The Slade School of Fine Art
  • Upcoming Events

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    Previous events

    Event: Platzverweis

    Dates: 15 Sep 2017 - 11 Nov 2017

    Venue: Schacher Raum für Kunst, Stuttgart, Germany

    A two man show with Marc Dittrich, It includes 12 new paintings from 2017.

    Event: The London Art Fair

    Dates: 21 Jan 2015 - 25 Jan 2015

    Venue: The Business Design Centre, London

    London's original and arguably its best Art Fair. I will be exhibited on stand G15 - bo.lee gallery.

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Education

1993 - 1997

The Slade School of Fine Art


Awards

2004

Villiers David Award

Travel Scholarship

Show more awards Hide

2002

Galleri Ryvarden Residency

Live and work residency at Ryvarden Lighthouse, Norway

2002

The Gilchrist-Fisher Award

National landscape painting prize

2000

The Florence Trust Residency

Year's residency at the Florence Trust, Highbury, London

1998

The Rootstein Hopkins Travel Scholarship

Travel Scholarship - destination: Scandinavia

1997

The Duveen Travel Scholarship

Destination: Iceland

1996

The Margaret Pulsford Book Award

Book Award - The Slade School of Fine Art

There are no upcoming events

Show previous events Hide previous events

Previous events

Event: Platzverweis

Dates: 15 Sep 2017 - 11 Nov 2017

Venue: Schacher Raum für Kunst, Stuttgart, Germany

A two man show with Marc Dittrich, It includes 12 new paintings from 2017.

Event: The London Art Fair

Dates: 21 Jan 2015 - 25 Jan 2015

Venue: The Business Design Centre, London

London's original and arguably its best Art Fair. I will be exhibited on stand G15 - bo.lee gallery.


 

Biography

My primary drive as an artist is to try to make sense of my place in the world. Through the caprices and inconsistencies of memory, I hope to access a kind of collective memory of place.

I do not seek to illustrate a particular place in point of fact, but rather develop and ultimately ‘make‘ a version of the world seen through the isolation of personal memories. The mind/body distinction - the phenomena of the mind seeming to look out at the world from behind the eyes – forms the basis of my attempt to understand and record the world through my own consciousness. 

The paintings in particular are works of memory – the slow development or exposure of a photograph being both a useful metaphor and an actuality in my practice. The filter of memory appears to retain only what is personally important, and the inevitable mix of my own history and experience fills in the gaps. Only that which remains is important – the extraneous and fleeting are not registered. The final image is therefore a remnant, the world distilled. This remembered world inevitably fades and decays, and I catch all I can before there is nothing left. This is my starting point. 

The long stretches of time needed to make both paintings and photographs, complement the slow filtering process. My preoccupation with making photographs during the last moments of the day, for example, is part of that process; the extended moment – the un-decisive moment – allow the image to become a record of time passing. There is an inherent melancholy in this as each image is something already gone. It is the seeing of things for the last time.