Mark Walker

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Solar Scars

 SOLAR SCARS  MARK WALKER&JOHAN ANDRÉN opening: 08.03.25 – 6pm run time: 08.03.2025 –  end of MARCH adress: LAB106 showcase, Rossmarkt 23,60311 Frankfurt a.M.  “SOLAR SCARS”MARK WALKER / JOHAN ANDRÉNLab 106 presents a duo exhibition ‘Solar Scars’ from Johan Andrén and Mark Walker. Bringing together work reflecting their ongoing dialogue around the sun, permanence and the marks we leave behind. Their contrasting approaches, Mark’s meticulous spiraling and Andrén’s cast tin faces and rubbings, create a visual conversation between different cycles and rhythms. The exhibition explores how their practices converged and have evolved in dialogue since studying together from 2021, into work that is both striking and subtly unsettling.“When speaking to Mark about our little show, he mentioned that he had been thinking about planetary and solar rotations when making the spiral drawings, and how that related to the stars in the blown up rubbing that acts like a backdrop for the whole thing. He texted about vast solar systems and a sense of mortality.”(Johan Andrén) German Version “SOLAR SCARS” MARK WALKER / JOHAN ANDRÉN Lab 106 präsentiert die Duo-Ausstellung “Solar Scars” von Johan Andrén und Mark Walker. Die Ausstellung vereint Werke, die ihren fortlaufenden Dialog über die Sonne, Vergänglichkeit und die Spuren, die wir hinterlassen, reflektieren. Ihre kontrastierenden Herangehensweisen

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Spring Exhibition

I will be taking part in this years (2024) Spring Exhibition at Fotogalleriet organised by Forbundet Frie Fotografer. The exhibition is on from 24th May to 30th June and the opening is at 18:00-21:00 on the 24th of May. I am showing photos from my ‘underfoot’ series along with an updated edition of the publication ‘Beneath one’s steps’ This year’s Spring Exhibition is existential, meditative and playful. With a common interest in our fragility and our search for belonging, the artists´ explores our contemporary challenges with both subtle and clear speech, from tactile and analog processes to animated and glossy surfaces.   THE ARTISTS Øistein Sæthren Dahle Jason Havneraas, Ketil Berge & Signe Holm Maren Dagny Juell Magnus B. Bjørlo Lysbakken Katharine MacDaid Duy Nguyen Signe Rosenlund-Hauglid Ulla Schildt Mark Walker   Since 1976, the Spring Exhibition has been an important yearly event for Norwegian photographic art. During 46 years, and through almost an equal number of editions, this long-standing tradition of cyclical exhibitions has driven forward photography’s position within the Norwegian art field. Every edition continues to be a unique gathering for the photographic community.  Through the Spring Exhibition, you can witness what current tendencies occupy contemporary artists and the distinctive methodologies

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Free Education For all: it’s not too late to change your mind.

04.05.23 – 14.05.23   Free Education for All: It’s Not Too Late to Change Your Mind is this year’s graduation show from the Oslo Art Academy’s Master of Fine Arts program. It is a gathering of disparate artistic practices from a diverse group of students, many of whom are from countries outside the EU.   Our exhibition title is a response to the Norwegian government’s introduction of tuition fees for non-EU/EEA students, with few exceptions. Contrary to the government’s own political platform, the change was passed in Stortinget on November 29th, 2022. For students at KHiO, the tuition fees are estimated to be 500 000-700 000 NOK per year. This isn’t including the high cost of living in Norway, material costs, and the fees and proof of subsistence required for student residence permits. As witnessed in Denmark and Sweden, where these fees are far less, this will cut off Norway from a world of artists, especially from those of the racialized and geographic Other. Art thrives under plurality.   It has been stated that Norway is no exception to the current day’s economic hardship and that schools need to find other sources of income. We beg to differ. We don’t believe

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ARTWORKS

Underfoot

In Underfoot, the technique is used to explore a vision of the close but unknown underground.

nnausea

The works for this exhibition are from the series 'nnausea' this series started from a makeshift street weapon, used in the north of England, made by gluing two blades either side of a coin.

I am sitting alone

Each stack of plug-timers are made with a different type of plug socket. And each individual timer is different, although sometimes similar.