Mark Jeffreys studied at Wimbledon College of Arts and received his MFA from University of the Arts London.
Inspired by colour fields, living landscapes, films like Solaris, he makes conceptual abstract landscapes connected to informalism, anti-structure, conformism, and paradox. He grew up in rural England and spent much of his childhood split between the Midlands and East Anglia. He currently lives and works in The Netherlands.
The red thread running through much of his work is the threat of rising sea levels due to global warming. The uncertainty of the dual terrains of land and water, and the paradoxical notion that one place in time cannot exist without the other, is a major influence in Jeffreys' work; that is, we are simultaneously above and beneath the water, at once drowning and trying to breathe.
Exhibitions
2025
Paperweights, Amsterdam, NL (apartment show)
2023
Art Diagonale V, Wels, Austria
2019
Stages of Life, Harrow Arts Centre, London, UK
2018
Somewhere in Time II, C. Y. Tung Maritime Museum, Shanghai, China
Somewhere in Time I, West Bund, Shanghai, China
2017
Otherworlds 1, 5th Base Gallery, Brick Lane, London, UK
One That Holds Everything, Crypt Gallery, St. Pancras Church, London, UK
17m2, UAL High Holborn, London, UK
Life in a Shoebox, Back Room Gallery, London, UK
Mixed Relationships, China Design Centre, London, UK
2014
Looking Sound, live visual arts & music performance, London, UK
ACME Open Studios, Robinson Road, London, UK
2012
The Big Event, Stoke Newington Library Gallery, London, UK
2010
Harvest Moon, The Troubadour, Earls Court, London, UK
Residencies
2023
Art Diagonale V, Wels, Austria
2018
ICCI Art Valley Residency, Shanghai, China
Education
MFA Fine Art
University of the Arts London (Wimbledon College of Art), UK (Grade: Distinction)
BA (Hons) Fine Art
De Montfort University, UK
Awards
University of the Arts London Vice Chancellor's Scholarship
Curatorial / Volunteering
2016 - 2019
Windows 71: Co-ordinated exhibitions in a shop window in north London that helped new and under-represented artists gain exposure.
Artwork held in private collections around the world.