About
Welcome to my site and thanks for dropping by.
I'm Mark Jeffreys, a British artist living in the Netherlands.
I grew up in small villages in the English countryside. By my early twenties I had found my way to London, a very different landscape to what I was used to growing up. City life and village life are very different and there is a stark contrast between the urban and rural, each space a different type of landscape, each still a repurposing of the environment. My thinking and therefore my personal landscape is a reflection of my surroundings, past and present. A place at once within and around, it inhabits and surrounds.
I work with a mix of materials but most often paint on paper or canvas. I enjoy using oils the most; they have a depth of colour that is fun to explore as a vital part of the image-making process. I sometimes also create digital variants of paintings using computer software for further experimentation. By challenging assumptions related to painting I find a space to simultaneously explore ideas about what landscape is.
CV
Group Exhibitions
2023 - Art Diagonale, Austria
2019 - Stages of Life, Harrow Arts Centre, London
2018 - Somewhere in Time II, C. Y. Tung Maritime Museum, Shanghai
2018 - Somewhere in Time I, West Bund, Shanghai
2018 - MFA Graduate Show, Wimbledon College of Arts
2017 - Otherworlds 1, 5th Base Gallery, Brick Lane, London
2017 - One That Holds Everything, Crypt Gallery, St. Pancras Church, London
2017 - 17m2, UAL High Holborn, London
2017 - Life in a Shoebox, Back Room Gallery, London
2017 - Mixed Relationships, China Design Centre, London
2015 - Looking Sound, live visual arts & music performance, London
2014 - ACME Open Studios, Robinson Road, London
2012 - The Big Event, Stoke Newington Library Gallery, London
2010 - Harvest Moon, The Troubadour, Earls Court, London
Residencies
July-August 2023 - Art Diagonale V, Austria
December 2018 – ICCI Art Valley Residency, Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
Curatorial
2016 - 2019 - Curator, Window 71: an exhibition space in a ground floor shop window, north London, UK
Education
2016-2018 - MFA Fine Art, University of the Arts London
(Wimbledon College of Art. Grade: Distinction)
2000-2003 - BA (Hons) Fine Art, Oxford and Cherwell Valley College, Banbury
(De Montfort University)
1999-2000 - Foundation Diploma in Art & Design, College of West Anglia
Awards
University of the Arts London Vice Chancellor's Scholarship
Work held in private collections around the world.
