For as long as I can remember I have drawn and created things. The ability to touch someone's life-perhaps on the other side of the planet and of a completely different culture- is of profound importance to me.
I am generally a sociopolitical artist who also has a fondness for history. I like to merge these three elements and then fuse them to my favoured genre of painting or sculpture (Neo expressionism) to illustrate the joys and pitfalls of this distorted world we live in.
Artist Statement
For as long as I an remember I have drawn and created things. The ability to touch someone's life-perhaps on the other side of the planet and of a completely different culture- is of profound importance to me. I am generally a sociopolitical artist who also has a fondness for history. I like to merge these three elements and then fuse them to my favoured form of painting or sculpture (Neo expressionism) to illustrate the joys and pitfalls of this distorted world we live in.
Education
Tasmanian school of art
BFA
- ceramics, 2d studies, drawing 1. Painting
1983
- 1983
Did not complete degree
Skills
Sculpture
Painting
Drawing
Ceramics
Interests
Politics
History
Social issues
Press
VOL-UP2 magazine
September
2020
Featured article in VOL-UP2. A Paris online publication for the fringe community with 600,000 followers
Outsiderartist magazine USA Featured artist
September
2019
Two page spread in Outsiderartist magazine.
Exhibitions
Let's rescue the future
October
2020
Gallery Jan Wallmark, Stockholm
Paintings and sculptures.
Three hot artists
September
2020
Seoul, South Korea
Group show with Hunt Slonem and Enrico Embroli, hosted by Paul Lee and the Lilac gallery New York at Gallery AB, Seoul, South Korea
Long way from home
October
2019
Copenhagen Denmark
Solo show at SPC kunstrum, Fredriksburg, Copenhagen.
Marc Rayner solo show
June
2019
Tokyo, Japan
Solo exhibition of small paintings.
BAMA Art fair
April
2019
Seoul, South Korea
Represented by Paul Lee and the Lilac gallery NewYork
Gallery Jan Wallmark
February
2019
Gallery Jan Wallmark, Stockholm
Paintings and sculptures
Outsider looking in
March
2017
Gallery Jan wallmark
A collection of 75 small paintings and sculptures
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"Life and death in Mexico"
I have never been to Mexico, but I love it anyway. The spirit of the people and the history of that part of the world are intriguing to say the least. Two of my favourite artists are Mexicans, Frida kahlo and Diego Rivera. I know Mexico has it's problems, but if I stop a dream for a moment I can get lost in the romance of it's past.
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Cynthia's dance moves triggered an early snow"
A colour fest against the gloom and darkness of Sweden in late autumn. We have no snow here yet and until we do we are stuck with short gloomy days.
We all know about rain dances performed by the North American indigenous tribes. How we could do with a snow dance, I thought.
I am lucky I can always paint colour into my day and so I did. Combining colour with the idea of a snow dance.
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The pagan alter
1600 years of monotheism have removed most traces of pagan religion, sadly. I find the stories attached to pagan religions extremely interesting-though highly unlikely- still the cultures that came with them or more accurately created them were so colourful and full of creativity. This work imagines a point in time when deft hands built wonderful things from nothing.
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Back to the stoneage
I sometimes think we should examine and implement some of our ancestors ideas, especially those that relate to cohabitation.
We are racing forward with technology now and I'm not sure we have the awareness, intelligence across the entire species and overall desire to embrace these technologies. To move them forward in a responsible manner.
If in the end, we don't have the required acumen then it becomes academic. We fail, the earth shrugs it's metaphorical shoulders and moves on.... without us.
In this piece I have paired humanoid figures racing forward, into the unknown, on as yet to be invented machines, seemingly out of control.
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Commonwealth ain't so common
The rich are getting richer. Wealth is simply not attainable for everyone. This idea is fools gold. Sadly the notion that being super wealthy is somehow a good thing is becoming more and more common. Look at our past and you'll see our future. As long as we chase this paradigm we are doomed.
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The anger management bureau
No matter how we feel about criminals and crime generally, most of us long for the day when prisons are no longer necessary. As it stands, in some countries prisons are simply, privatised, low cost factories. Producing goods for corporations that blatantly use the services of these institutions and therefore stimulate the system to find more cheap labour. Unfortunately the source is never ending it seems. With criminal "justice" systems geared to make sure the disenfranchised and low income earners are more likely to enter this desperate world and rarely leave it.
