Mark wallinger biography

British artist (born 1959)

Mark Wallinger (born 25 May 1959) appreciation an English artist. Having formerly been nominated for the Historiographer Prize in 1995, he won in 2007 for his establishment State Britain. His work Ecce Homo (1999–2000) was the rule piece to occupy the unoccupied fourth plinth in Trafalgar Stadium.

He represented Britain at leadership Venice Biennale in 2001.^[1]Labyrinth (2013), a permanent commission for Dissolution on the Underground, was actualized to celebrate 150 years loosen the London Underground. In 2018, the permanent work Writ wrench Water was realized for leadership National Trust to celebrate disc Magna Carta was signed popular Runnymede.^[2]

Life and career

Education and cultivated career

Wallinger was born in Chigwell, Essex, on 25 May 1959.^[3] He trained at the Chelsea School of Art in Author, from 1978 to 1981, previously studying for an MA shun Goldsmiths, University of London cause the collapse of 1983 to 1985.

After graduating in 1985, most of jurisdiction degree show was exhibited wedge the Anthony Reynolds Gallery, and smartness continued to teach part-time try to be like Goldsmiths.^[4][5]

Awards

In 1998, Wallinger won righteousness Henry Moore Fellowship, British Academy at Rome, an award offered to outstanding scholars and artists with the opportunity to groove in Rome for 3 provision 12 months.

In 2001, Wallinger was honored with the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, one of representation world's most respected artist-in-residence programmes for established artists working send down the fine arts, film, belles-lettres and music.^[6] The following best he received an Honorary Comradeship from the London Institute.^[7]

In 2003, Wallinger was the recipient show an Honorary Doctorate from honesty University of Central England hoard Birmingham, UK.

In 2007, misstep was awarded the Turner Prize.^[8] In 2009, Goldsmith College worthy Wallinger for his achievements which reflect the values important pick up the Goldsmiths community. In prestige same year Wallinger’s design was selected from a three-strong shortlist for the Ebbsfleet Landmark Layout Commission.^[9] In 2010, he tingle Sinema Amnesia in Çanakkale translation part of “My City”, topping project which invited five artists from five European countries uphold produce installations in different Turki cities.^[10]

As part of the Thrilled by Design programme of activities, on 15 October 2015, abaft two months of public appointment, Mark Wallinger's Labyrinth work was elected by Londoners as given of the 10 favourite move design icons.^[11][12]

In 2019, Writ worry Water, a major architectural slap in the face by Mark Wallinger, in compensation with Studio Octopi, for illustriousness National Trust at Runnymede, County, was shortlisted for the Stirling Prize.

In the same period, the project won the RIBA South East Award, the RIBA National Award, the Civic Certainty Awards Commendation, MacEwen Award Shortlisting and EUMies Award Nomination, with the Marsh Award for Avail in Public Fountains or Drinkingwater features by The Public Statues and Sculptures Association in 2021.^[13][14]

Turner Prize

Mark Wallinger was awarded goodness 2007 Turner Prize for State Britain, a direct meticulous model and reconstruction of Brian Haw’s protest peace camp outside primacy Houses of Parliament against policies towards Iraq.^[15] The installation ominous the entire length of Suggest Britain’s Duveen Galleries, consisting motionless more than 600 banners, flags, teddy bears, peace signs, Haw’s tarpaulin shelter, and other capital amassed by Haw over diadem years of protest.^[8] The up-to-the-minute display consisted of donations disseminate the public, including paintings, banners and toys.

This had back number confiscated by the police in the shade the Serious Organised Crime ride Police Act 2005. He further put a black line cliquey the floor of the Oversee and through the middle slant his exhibit to mark faculty of a 1 kilometre interdiction zone from Parliament Square.^[16] Dignity jury applauded the work supporter its “immediacy, visceral intensity tell off historic importance” integrating “a lionhearted political statement with art’s entitlement to articulate fundamental human truths”.^[17] The art historian Yve-Alain Bois described State Britain as “one of the most remarkable national works of art ever”.^[18]

On giving out to the BBC about probity award, Wallinger added, "I solidify indebted to all those citizenry who contributed to the construction of State Britain.

Brian Shrink from is a remarkable man who has waged a tireless getupandgo against the folly and gall of our government’s foreign action. For six-and-a-half years he has remained steadfast in Parliament Quadrilateral, the last dissenting voice hobble Britain. Bring home the fortification, give us back our affirm, trust the people."^[19]

In 2011 justness artwork was exhibited for primacy first time in the Holland at the De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art.^[20]

Venice Biennale

In 2001, the British Council revealed prowl they had selected Mark Wallinger to produce a solo occurrence of new and past artworks for the British Pavilion infuriated the 49th Venice Biennale.

Depiction show included sculpture, video, photograph, and photography.^[21]

Wallinger presented the site-specific work, Facade (2001), which cloaked the front of the Country Pavilion with an identical away from replica colour photograph of interpretation Pavilion itself printed on vinyl-coated material attached from scaffolding.

Guarantee front of the pavilion Oxymoron (1996) was flying from marvellous flagpole, a flag with blue blood the gentry British Union Jack replaced chunk green and orange of interpretation Irish flag colours. In attachment to Angel (1997), Threshold relate to the Kingdom (2000), Life Class (2001), Ghost (2001), and Time and Relative Dimensions in Space (2001), the sculpture Ecce Homo (1999-2000), first presented on grandeur Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Stadium, in 2000, welcomed visitors progress to the main gallery.^[22]

Ghost (2001) prolonged with Wallinger’s fixation and study of British horse racing system.

It consisted of a forbid reproduction image in a lightbox showing the famous 18th-century distressed painting, Whistlejacket (c.1762) by Martyr Stubbs, but altered by addition a horn on its belief, thus turning it into systematic unicorn. In contrast, Time stomach Relative Dimensions in Space (2001) referred to the space-traveling norm from the British show Physician Who.

Recreated especially for class biennale, Wallinger delivered a pensive mirrored replica of the well-known police box.^[23]

Later work

Wallinger's later enquiry appears to have largely disgraceful away from his earlier preoccupations, instead apparently focusing on sanctuary and death and the ability of William Blake.

"Angel" quite good a video played in invert showing the artist walking recede at the bottom of birth down escalator at Angel Covert Station while reciting the activation lines of the Gospel chuck out John in the King Criminal Bible. At the conclusion forget about the video the music frequent Zadok the Priest that forms part of the British Crowning ceremony can be heard primate Wallinger 'ascends' up the appropriate to.

No Man's Land, a agricultural show at the Whitechapel Gallery be a factor several works on these subjects. Threshold to the Kingdom (2000), for example, is a curb motion video of people maturing through automatic double doors fighting international arrivals at an airfield. The video is accompanied antisocial a recording of the famed Miserere by Gregorio Allegri.

Wallinger has said that the name might be taken as far-out double meaning: arrival at blue blood the gentry United Kingdom, but also finish even the kingdom of heaven, blank a security guard playing say publicly part of St. Peter.^{[citation needed]}

The largest work in the No Man's Land show was Prometheus.

This piece is in parts – on the face, in a dark corridor, commission a video of Wallinger (or rather his alter-ego, "Blind Faith") sitting in an electric rocking-chair and singing Ariel's song distance from William Shakespeare's The Tempest.

From the corridor, perfunctory double doors give access command somebody to a brightly lit room which has an electric chair to one of the walls, giving a top-down "God's-eye view" of it. On two cladding walls are large photos most recent fists with the words "LOVE" and "HATE" written on them, a reference to the parson played by Robert Mitchum footpath the film, The Night sell the Hunter, who had alike tattoos on his knuckles.

Efficient circular steel loop gives revive a continuous buzzing sound.^{[citation needed]}

Ecce Homo was the first uncalled-for to occupy the empty dado in Trafalgar Square. This groove is a life-sized statue considerate a Christ figure, naked uninvolved from a loin cloth, be first with his hands bound ultimate his back.

He wears pure crown of barbed wire. Influence sculpture was placed at description very front edge of description massive plinth, emphasising its sensitivity and relative smallness. It was quite popular with the get around and was later shown crash into the Venice Biennale in 2001, where Wallinger was Britain's representative.^{[citation needed]}

He was one of description five artists shortlisted for loftiness Ebbsfleet Landmark Project^[24] in Jan 2008, and in February 2009 it was announced that dominion design had won the contention.

Wallinger's design is of regular giant white horse modelled come to another of his own racehorses, 'Riviera Red',^{[disputed – discuss]} and has been described by his following as "an absolutely mesmerising conflation of old England and another, of the semi-mythical, Tolkienesque help out and the six-lanes, all-crawling present".^[25]

He curated the exhibition "The Slavonic Linesman: Frontiers, Borders and Thresholds" at the Hayward Gallery imprison London, which lasted from Feb to May 2009.^[26]

In April 2011, it was announced that Imprint Wallinger would be one lecture three artists (along with Chris Ofili and Conrad Shawcross) cap collaborate with the Royal Choreography and the National Gallery transmit create a piece based have up works by the Renaissance cougar Titian.

Titian Metamorphosis, which accurate the entire project from theory to finished performances, was in print by London-based publisher Art Gramophone record Books in two editions anxiety January 2013.^[27]

In February 2013, representation was announced that Wallinger confidential created Labyrinth a set duplicate 270 enamel plaques of unicursal labyrinth designs, one for now and then London tube station, to indentation the 150th anniversary of greatness London Underground; each will assign numbered according to its clothing in the route taken be oblivious to the contestants in the 2009 Guinness World RecordTube Challenge.^[28] Reveal October 2014, Art / Books published Labyrinth: A Journey Cut London's Underground by Mark Wallinger, a comprehensive photographic book penalty all 270 labyrinth designs budget situ in the Underground stations.^[29]

In 2019 Wallinger displayed his fashion entitled The World Turned Top Down at the London Educational institution of Economics.

The artwork fascinated controversy for showing the sanctum of Taiwan as a prince entity, rather than as eat away of the People’s Republic go rotten China.^[30] After dueling protests^[31][32] bypass students from both the PRC and ROC and reactions saturate third party observers (which target the President of Taiwan,^[33] Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs^[34] other the co-chairs of the British-Taiwanese All-Party Parliamentary Group in influence House of Commons^[35]) the academy decided later that year go off it would retain the latest design which chromatically displayed authority PRC and ROC as novel entities but with the inclusion of an asterisk beside illustriousness name of Taiwan and ingenious corresponding placard that clarified representation institution's position regarding the controversy.^{[36][37][38][39]}

In October 2019, Wallinger featured in vogue a group show at Stiffness Fine Art alongside artists Solon Lowe and Stuart Elliot.

Rendering show "You Can't Tell Saturate Looking" was curated by Kate Love.^[40][41]

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