- Creative practitioner; three years experience in textiles/experience in general art practice as well as concentrating on illustration for the past 3 years.
- Graduated 20 years ago from Camberwell with joint honours, fine art and graphic design
- Just moved up to Edinburgh from London
- Makes music, does some baking too as well as commercial work
What is important/What is his work about
- Objects are important-they secure you. Create your own space for these objects
- Content is important
- LINES ARE SO IMPORTANT, to Marcus in particular. They connect his entire practice.
- All drawings are like sculptures/buildings (metaphorically)
- He has complete confidence to make contact with a surface (maybe this has taken 20 years)
- Drawing is about life and what makes you happy, which makes good work.
- Mistakes are good, embrace them
- Knows work is finished by sticking to a timetable or schedule
- Finished work looks more like Graphics
Ideas and Practice
- Most ideas come from taking the world and re-imagining it;really random!
- LINE. Always challenge the line
- Loves MAKING. Child like play always stays with creative people. There is something wonderful about the physicality of trying to work out how to create something .
- 3D- exists in a 3D space. There isn't an edge to it, and it has as much space as it needs
Anorak Magazine
- Brief- 'Dreams'
- The cover is about reflecting what is going on in someones head, and not the obvious
- Correct space was very important, he spend hours and hours moving things by the millimetre so that it looked right
Is Illustration a good discipline?
- OF COURSE IT IS!
- The most interesting thing is what you apply it to.
- The potential of it keeps it exciting
Advice
- Draw more than ever!
- Its competitive but there is so much work out there
- If you don't put the time in, it doesn't work
- Enjoy being a creative person
- Don't take it too seriously
You need to be creative and and know your place in the world. ALWAYS THINK AND MAKE.
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