PHOTOGRAPHERS

Mark Wilcox

Liverpool-born artist, Mark Willcox, creates complex, visually discordant photographic artworks that convey an expressive response to the dissonance and chaos of contemporary urban life.

His current practice continues to investigate the possibilities for abstraction by using cameras in an experimental way. Described as a fusion of expressionism with photo-realism, his work is as rooted in the qualities of painting as much as it is in photography.

His work is motivated by the sight impairment he sustained in a sporting injury, which causes the disorientation he sometimes feels in busy cityscapes and owes much to concepts of complexity and simplicity that are inherent in Chaos Theory. His creative process does not follow the accepted notion of what photography is, but explores transformational qualities that can be achieved in the photographic capture of light, to create the unusual from everyday circumstances that might be felt but not necessarily seen.

He has exhibited in critically acclaimed group and solo exhibitions, most notably: Liverpool International Artists and Kings X Fire in 2008, Rush Hour in 2009 and most recently, Liverpool Urban, exhibited at 30 locations across the Merseyrail station network from November 2010 to April 2011. His work hangs in public, private and corporate collections in the UK, Europe and Asia.

For more information on Mark Wilcox’s PROJECTion: http://www.look2011.co.uk/whats-on/projection/

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