Mark Jeffreys makes conceptual abstract art inspired by colour fields and living landscapes. He views painting as a way to explore psychological landscapes and a way to create objects that have agency as relics of a space. His research orbits ideas to do with abstraction, climate anxiety, causality, and the temporal paradox that a place can exist simultaneously above and below water.
Mark grew up in the Cotswolds and Norfolk, has lived in Oxfordshire and London, and now lives in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He received a BA (Hons) Fine Art from De Montfort University and an MFA Fine Art from University of the Arts London (Wimbledon College of Art).
Exhibitions
2025
Paperweights, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (experimental 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
2013
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, Oxford and Cherwell Valley College (De Montfort University), UK
Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, College of West Anglia, UK
Awards
University of the Arts London Vice Chancellor's Scholarship
Curatorial
2016 - 2019
Window71: co-ordinated and installed exhibitions in a shop window in north London for new and under-represented artists.
Artwork held in private collections worldwide.