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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. 963; Mountaineer Retired


Mountaineer Retired
Michael St.Mark 2017

Seafront promenade, Morecambe Lancs.
Steel indicator cutout info sculpture aligned with the Lake District fells across the Bay

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*NEW Damien Hirst scandal – the more new material he presents & attempts to pass off as his own creation, the more obvious becomes, in its stead, a crude parroting of other artists’ work and thereby transparently a depressing paucity of personal creative talent, not to mention loose moral compass in terms of apparently not feeling even mildly responsible or aware of the lifelong psychological damage inflicted on many of his often highly gifted and sensitive artist victims, to whom he offers not a shred of acknowledgement, rather, instead, dismissive put-downs laced with obscenities.
Damien Hirst’s hook line & sinker plagiarism of London Dada artist Dingo’s 2008 unique conceptual Work Loggius Fishious Extraordinarious – is no less than the blatant and cynical theft of both title and the very concept that forms the essential basis upon which every exhibit in his new Venice show critically depends.

Dingo; not amused

London Dada work No. 962; An Unbelievable Venetian Treasure Delivery


An Unbelievable Venetian Treasure Delivery
Michael St.Mark 2017

Shoreditch, London E2

” It started with a fish, who thought it would ever come to this? ”

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Work 961; Shoreditch Beautification Project / Olde Shoreditch


Shoreditch Beautification Project
Michael St. Mark 2017

Just around the corner from London Dada’s Galerie 691, the ubiquitous prettying-up and gentrification of the area continues apace in preparation for more developer jackboot march involving irreplaceable character destruction > soulless high-rise monolith mayhem

After Steve Jones, greatly missed early contributor to LD

Close-up of solidified history for the record

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*NEW Damien Hirst scandal – the more new material he presents & attempts to pass off as his own creation, the more obvious becomes, in its stead, a crude parroting of other artists’ work and thereby a profound paucity of personal creative talent, not to mention loose moral compass in terms of apparently not feeling even mildly responsible or aware of the lifelong psychological damage inflicted on many of his often highly gifted and sensitive artist victims, to whom he offers not a shred of acknowledgement, rather, instead, dismissive put-downs laced with obscenities.
Damien Hirst’s hook line & sinker plagiarism of London Dada artist Dingo’s 2008 unique conceptual Work Loggius Fishious Extraordinarious – is no less than the blatant and cynical theft of both title and the very concept that forms the essential basis upon which every exhibit in this shameless talentless fraud’s Venice show critically depends.

Dingo; not amused