Author Archives: Michael St.Mark

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About Michael St.Mark

Conceptual / experimental multi-discipline artist, writer and photographer. Art influencer and founder of London Dada, recalling Dada's original aims and principles as envisaged by it's founder Hugo Ball. Eschews the often politically-motivated taboo on expressions of critical thought within art. Admiring Duchamp in going beyond the seemingly endless infatuation with the ' pretty picture' retinal and instead refusing to accept the standards and practices of an established corrupt art world and creatively stifling conventions that are still considered essential to attain fame and financial success: refusing to repeat himself or to develop one recognizable style to placate the commercial needs of the market.

Work No 722/3; Spirits of a Christmas Past / The Christmas Lights

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  Spirits of a Christmas Past
  c. Michael St.Mark 1991

Aldwych, London.  December 1991
Taken using Bronica MF camera with Ilford 120 Delta monochrome @ 400ASA

Award-winning photograph, now available in a signed limited edition of 25 Lightjet prints on Kodak Pro Endura
Image enlarges to 30″ x 30″ while maintaining fine detail.
Unframed; £450
Purchase details; LD Archive / shop site.

The Christmas Lights
  The Christmas Lights
  c. Art Axis 2014

Work based on a 4 hour inch-at-a time crawl que experience through 4 junctions covering about 30 miles on the M6; evening of December 22nd. To be available for purchase as signed limited edition prints in the New Year.

Work No. 721: Escape

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Escape
c. Michael St.Mark 2010

It’s that time of year again – we dream of the Costas ( not coffee )

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South Mimms, Hertfordshire, 2010. Stormcloud/weather front with passenger airplane

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Available in a signed edition of 25 lightjet fine art prints on Ilford Pearl archival paper
20″H x 24″W (unframed)
£450

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Work No. 720: Little White Lie – Big Blue Consequence

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Little White Lie – Big Blue Consequence
c. Michael St.Mark 2012

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Multi-stage digital monochrome rendering of color TV screenshot from 2012 during an outdoor broadcast interview with then Tory cabinet minister and chief whip Andrew Mitchell, in which he vehemently denies ” using the words to which I have been attributed ” – ie ” f*king plebs ” ( to describe armed protection police officers in Downing Street when they insisted he used the side exit gate like everyone else, as opposed to opening the main (vehicular) gates for the self-important minister and his bicycle & basket )

Today, 2 years on, found by a High Court libel judge to have “on the balance of probability” used the words to which he was attributed.
So from the hubris of libel to liable .. for £millions in costs and damages, when a simple honest apology to the cop
concerned would probably have caused the whole episode to blow over in a week. Deary me, these tiresome “get off my land” attituded Oxbridge fascists.

Full story here

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Available to purchase in signed limited edition of 25 lightjet prints on Kodak Pro Endura
20″H x 13″W ( unframed )
£400

Details; St.Mark@LondonDada.com

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