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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. 957; Alien Breed


Alien Breed
Michael St.Mark 2017

Early summer Bracken fronds sprout through last year’s decaying stems to a backdrop of equally tenacious lichens. Along with the charming cockroach, bracken is one of the life forms most likely to survive another mass extinction event, as they did the previous – the one that did for the dinosaurs.
Brecon Beacons NP, S. Wales


The Alien; equipt to survive in extremis

London Dada Work No. 956; Pictures at an Abandoned Lead Mine Exhibition


Pictures at an Abandoned Lead Mine Exhibition ( diptych )
Michael St.Mark 2017

High in the Lowther Hills, SW Scotland, at a place the Scots call “Dracula’s tomb”, where the cloud is “doon on tha doorstep” once a week.
Photo Diptych, signed print edition details tf
( Photos are available to purchase individually )

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Work No 955; tHIRST


tHIRST
Portrait of a creatively dehydrated artist
Art Axis 2017

Sundry discarded empty plastic drinks bottle on bone dry woodland path; Hertfordshire

“What an ultimate art irony;  that the wealthiest artist in the world should also be about the most morally bankrupt on account of absence of any substantial personal spring of creativity having obliged him to steal from those who have the proverbial font of plenty, in order to produce the second-hand artworks that brought him that huge wealth through what is an equally corrupt art market ”

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