Mark Farhall
Location: London
Website: www.markfarhall.com Mark Farhall studied MA Illustration at Central St. Martins School of Art, winning the Cecil Collins Drawing Award. Early in 2010 Mark had an Arts Council funded solo show entitled, Abstructavist Drawings, at the Fishmarket Gallery, Northampton. Two of these drawings were shortlisted for the 2010 Jerwood Drawing Prize. Mark has given drawing workshops at The Jerwood Space, London, as part of the 2010 Big Draw, and at The National Gallery, London, as part of the Bridget Riley exhibition. Mark is a nationally and internationally published artist, he lives and works in London.
'I’m very interested in using processes of working that detach me from a conscious action, that allow randomness and mistakes, so that I can produce indirectly what is too obscured to express directly. What grows visually is a record of these individual random convoluted thoughts, ideas, interpretations and how they might be connected. I use various (elaborate and obsessive) techniques when constructing these drawings, juxtapositioning assemblage, pattern-making, mirroring, and playing with illusions of three-dimensional surfaces. The processes create improvised drawings that are simultaneously, energetic, harmonious, complex, and naïve'.
Exhibitions
2011 Smashing Time, Ragged School Museum, London
2010 Jerwood Drawing prize, Jerwood Space, London
2010 Abstructavist Drawings, Fishmarket Gallery, Northampton
2009 Bicycle Bespoke, North and South Gallery, London
2008 A Journey as a Vehicle, Slaughterhouse Gallery, London (curator)
2007 The Institute of Ape Culture Review, London
2001 Final Show, (MA) Central St. Martins London, London, May
1999 Final Show, (BA) Middlesex University, London, May
Publications
Abstructavist Drawings. Paperback: 22 pages Publisher: Fishmarket Publications
(9 April 2010) ISBN-10: 095557062X ISBN-13: 978-0955570629
Too Tall For a Planet. Paperback: 22 pages Self publication 2007
Free Radicals. Paperback: 110 pages, 100 b&w illustrations
Publisher: Distributed Art Publishers, U.S. (01 August 2005)
ISBN: 097136706X EAN: 9780971367067
A Long Wave Welcome. Paperback: 18 pages Self publication 2005
An Idle Hill. Paperback: 18 pages Self publication 2005
