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Mark Lloyd (born 1971) is an artist who works predominantly in painting, but also in other disciplines. His work has been described in ARTiculAction Art Review November 2014 as meta-modernist, post post-modernist, and nascent.
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Career
Lloyd began his career as a graffiti artist in the mid to late 1980's using the name 'ICON'. He went on to study fine art at Falmouth School of Art and Winchester School of Art at Bachelor and Masters Level. The combination of graffiti and traditional art practice is reflected in his work today.
In 2008 Lloyd won the NIACE (National Institute of Adult Continuing Education) European Adult Learner of the Year Award, about which he stated 'Learning has given me purpose'.
Lloyd was interviewed and profiled for the Saatchi Gallery New Sensations in 2012.
In 2013 Lloyd's work was selected for a group show with Banksy. Also a group exhibition with Sir Anthony Caro
During 2014 Lloyd's work was shown at Agora Gallery as part of The Chelsea International Fine Art Competition in New York Later in this year Mark was awarded the 'Awakening' Mural Project, a permanent community mural which can still be viewed today on Romedia Lane, Bournemouth today.
Lloyd's work was shown as part of the ArtVenice Biennale 3 Selected Artist List in 2015. Plus selected for the Venezia Open Art.
Work
Philosophy, science and science fiction are all key ideologies that underpin the work of artist Mark Lloyd, whose paintings cast a gaze at ideas of consumption, the search for God, dystopia, evolution and human advancement in the age of technology. Themes include transhumanism/posthumanism, the wonders of catastrophes of modern technology, the human soul or spirit, and the loss and rediscovery of God. The circle or sphere motif that appears in Lloyds work serves as a visual symbolic vehicle representing mystery and the unknown in an age of expanding technology.
Lloyd's work generally takes the form of large mixed media paintings, but his work has also manifested in photography, printmaking, drawing, installation art, sculpture and digital imagery. Religious imagery features heavily Lloyd's new work. Lloyd co-opts the Hindu practice of Antiyesti, using pigment made from the ash of burnt artwork, as well as oil, acrylic, spray paint, marker, enamel and resin in this new series of twelve large artworks-in-progress entitled 'Eternal Singularity'.