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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.

London Dada work 531: The Door to Romance

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The Door to Romance
c. Michael St.Mark 2011

Artist’s comment on how the opportunity for romantic involvement at first promises escape from an expansively
mundane, grey life of solitude into one of snugly ensconsed security and colour… yet all too often at the price of
subsequent steely emotional/sexual entanglements, children commitments and binding legal complications that become
as stifling and painful to endure – or more so – than the lonely world left behind.

People are happier when they’re in pain – in fact that’s why they get married ”  – Lou Reed, from the New York album

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Link to London Dada vs. Wolff Olins Olympic logo litigation. http://londondada.blog.co.uk/2011/07/27/one-year-to-the-olympics-one-year-of-litigation-11555610/

Work No. 530/530a: The Waiting Room (1 & 2)


The Waiting Room
c. Michael St. Mark 2010

Hospital room, Charring Cross Hospital, Hammersmith <scratcheadsmiley>

Care home, Hatfield Herts – a strange silence pervades.
Dada doesn’t sugar-coat or dodge issues everyone must confront

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