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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. 789; Tory Runaway Car – Emergency Brake

Applying the Corbyn Brake
Michael St.Mark, 2015

A4 photo montage. Car floor control pedals & Jeremy Corbyn portrait.
Posted in the hour after he was elected leader of the Labour Party.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34232478

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Four months on – we’re surprised it took the Tories so long, but then again perhaps not – they latch on to a good term and twist it to suit their own cynical ends.
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Work No 788; Royal Record Breaker / TEPOT4

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Record Breaker / The Excruciating Passage of Time IV
c. Art Axis 2015

London Dada commemorates the record-breaking reign of HM Queen Elizabeth, 1952 – 2015; overtaking Queen Victoria
as the longest-reigning monarch in British history.

Latest in our Excruciating Passage of Time series.

Related Work from 2012. Celebrating Her Majesty’s Jubilee year.

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Work No. 787; Confessions of a Pebble Rescuer / Many call but few are chosen

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Many Call but Few are Chosen – Confessions of a Pebble Rescuer
c. Michael St.Mark 2015

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Prose-poem’  integral to the work

Saved from a fate worse than sand,
from millennia of twice-daily tide relentless and

Reducing with friction merciless til’
nought remains save innumerable anonymous particles that fill
a vast dark seabed asleep, forever still.

A hearty wee pebble in a trillion
rescued by a Dadaist, an imagination in a million
sitting high & dry on marble mantlepiece to never more
suffer indignity of age, of endless tidal bore.

Preserved, protected, frozen
in time for all eternity, to far and away outlive
its saviour’s all too mortal identity.

M. St.M
Hertfordshire, 2015

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  Three Fellow Escapees
  c. Michael St.Mark

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