Contributors: Mark Anstee
Mark attended Goldsmith’s College in the 80s’, then Central School of Speech and Drama, and completed his MA in Fine Art at the University of Brighton 1999.
He spent ten years as an actor before returning to college to concentrate on his work as a visual artist.
It was here that he started to develop his ideas on commemorative acts and temporary monuments.
Since 2000, he has exhibited widely in the UK and in Europe, having made large-scale performance drawings at:
The De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, Occupation 2006; Fabrica Gallery,Brighton, Early Redemption 2005; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Indelible 2005; and the In Flanders Fields Museum, Belgium Encounter 2003.
Other solo exhibitions include; Neons, Madder139 Gallery, London 2007; Bearskins, De Queeste Kunstkamers, Belgium 2002; Friendly Fire, Royal Armouries, Leeds 2001.
Group shows include; Pulse, New York, Next, Chicago 2008, the Drawing Room, London 2007, the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2002 & 2004 and the Royal Academy.
He has been Artist in Residence at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2005; on the Riverside Archaeological Project, Stonehenge 2007 and on HMS Bulwark 2008.
Mark has also designed for theatre, winning the Jerwood new designer award for his work at The Gate, London in 2002. He has been a collaborating artist with the theatre company Sound and Fury and has made installations for projects at the National Theatre/London, the Tron/Glasgow and the Arvon Foundation/Shropshire.
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