About
Mark Jeffreys
b. Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK
The definition of space and environment is important to my work. The environment is important to me. Landscapes are a multitude of interconnected spaces. I'm sensitive to the environment that surrounds me, and it becomes part of me.
My landscape includes my internal landscape, my thoughts and actions in relation to my environment. Through this lens I recover remnants of being somewhere, seen through a haze of past encounters with spaces places and feelings.
I respond to this by painting it in an expanded format; that is, paintings that sometimes become sculptures, digital animation, or a mixture of other things. But always paintings at the heart of it all. By challenging assumptions related to painting I find space to simultaneously explore ideas about what landscapes are.
I live in the Netherlands which brings its own influences into my work as I consider the ever-present proximity of water and the strange feeling that wherever I stand, a least in the area of Amsterdam, I'm likely standing below sea level and should be underwater.
This is climate anxiety, which my work in part provides an outlet for.
CV
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 - Art Diagonale, Austria
2019 - Stages of Life, Harrow Arts Centre, London
2018 - Somewhere in Time II, C. Y. Tung Maritime Museum, Shanghai
2018 - Somewhere in Time I, West Bund, Shanghai
2018 - MFA Graduate Show, Wimbledon College of Arts
2017 - Otherworlds 1, 5th Base Gallery, Brick Lane, London
2017 - One That Holds Everything, Crypt Gallery, St. Pancras Church, London
2017 - 17m2, UAL High Holborn, London
2017 - Life in a Shoebox, Back Room Gallery, London
2017 - Mixed Relationships, China Design Centre, London
2015 - Looking Sound, live visual arts & music performance, London
2014 - ACME Open Studios, Robinson Road, London
2012 - The Big Event, Stoke Newington Library Gallery, London
2010 - Harvest Moon, The Troubadour, Earls Court, London
Residencies
July-August 2023 - Art Diagonale V, Austria
December 2018 – ICCI Art Valley Residency, Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
Education
2016-2018 - MFA Fine Art, University of the Arts London
(Wimbledon College of Art. Grade: Distinction)
2000-2003 - BA (Hons) Fine Art, Oxford and Cherwell Valley College, Banbury
(De Montfort University)
1999-2000 - Foundation Diploma in Art & Design, College of West Anglia
Awards
University of the Arts London Vice Chancellor's Scholarship
Curatorial / Volunteering
2016 - 2019 - Window 71
An exhibition space in north London helping new artists gain exposure.
Work held in private collections around the world.
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