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British artist Lawson Bell responds to objects, natural or man-made, that he finds.
He imagines them as something else, in effect ‘re-imaging their reality’. It’s often the passage of time, and the natural forces creating a decay, that have allowed them to slip into this new state of being.
He will often write a story to accompany the work.
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Life out of reach, jagged mountains, sharp rocks rising from forests,
Copses and stands swaying in the winds of this underworld,
Bubbled pearls born from aired waves kiss and chase through branches of kelp as startled doves,
Anemone beckon, and jewelled scree nestled in envelopes of stone,
He’d wonder beyond the mountains, depths to misted blue, shrouded white boulders on desert sands.
When he was four, he’d lie at the shore, the glass door an inch from his nose, lost in this place.
When he was five, face, eyes and all, under and in, he could see, and fish would nibble his nose.
He didn’t know it was impossible, a boy, to breathe under, he knew no different.
He told no one, where he’d rather be.
When he was six, only his feet anchored to limpet rock, his body merged.
He’d been told of mermaids at bedtime, and day-dreamed of meeting one,
‘I wonder’ he thought.
‘We’d have the best conversations,
’And with that, he slipped away, new life begun
Born in 1969, Mark grew up in rural Cornwall.
A childhood naturalist, Mark spent his formative years inthe woods that surrounded the family home. His tiny bedroom was a trove oftanks of the living, bottles and jars of the dead and dissected owl pelletsfrom the barn.
At 16, bored of preserving and pickling, Bell picked up acamera.
At 18 he travelled to London to chase the dream of aphotographer.
After a few years, with an agent and work published in Blitzand Vogue, he fell in love with sculpture, making pieces from found objectsprocured from the streets and skips of Hackney. Commissions came fromindividuals such as Alan Ayckbourn and institutions including The RoyalNational Theatre. Mark exhibited at the ICA and he created an installation atEARTH, Art of a changing world at The Royal Academy.
His career morphed to become a Creative Director. He went onto found two design agencies, Warm Rain and latterly Mark Lawson Bell Studio, underthe moniker of Plinth Creative. Their client lists citing some of the world’stop brands, from ABSOLUT, to Veuve Clicquot. They won a design award for aPringle of Scotland interior, and featured in many design books. He was theArtistic Director of ‘sketch’ in London. By all accounts the most creativecollection of restaurants and bars under one roof in Mayfair
He is now concentrating on his own work again.
He lives and works in Hastings, East Sussex.
Exhibitions:
- Casbar Gallery, London, UK
- Big Chill Art Trails, Wiltshire, UK
- Institute Of Contemporary Art, London, UK
- EARTH, Art of a changing world, The Royal Academy, London,UK
- Sketch, Mayfair, London, UK
- The Great Imagining with Gavin Turk, London, UK
- Hayward Gallery ‘My Dear Earth’
- Guernica 37, San Francisco, U.S.
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