'Between Dog and Wolf'
While the saying traditionally has to do with twilight, here it is a memory of a sun beatliving cave.

 

This is a place I grew up, where the edge of the jungle (or ‘bush’ as it isreferred to), is kept well clear of ones residence as within the jungle the sun cannot shine. This is an island with no memory of a past, where culture is the only home and nature isan unknown that stings and bites, infects and suffocates. It is a nature that seldomdelivers on promises where for the sightseer the success of days is measured only onsafe return.

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Artist Bio:

Born in Trinidad, for Marcus beauty, the sublime and surface laid the foundation for hisartistic perspective. He moved to London to study for an MFA at Chelsea College of Artand studied for his BFA in Montreal at Concordia University.Marcus has a focus on formalism and materiality and how that interfaces with socialvalues in painting.

In his words “we have long come to understand that art can be manyother things than a painting on a wall but this isn’t in that universe. This is a universeremoved from institutional aspirations or appeal to art historical discourse where to thebody to which the work belongs it is only a finger or a chin. The rest of the body is thesocial context in which it has a life”.
This sentiment does sit right at the centre of recent art historiography, bringing what wasoutside in or platforming the unseen. This is art exploration of dual states, challenging thenotion that objects or ideas possess singular identities.

At the core of this work is perhaps a preoccupation regarding the intricacies of meaning. His images, while drawn in part from elements of his own experience, thematically touchon displacement or the eroding of the autochthonous to the repurposing of culturalcontext. His scenes evoke the perverse romanticisation of the nomad, vagabond, migrantor pilgrim sleeping rough, squatting or seeking out elemental encounters and the dualityof this as both free and disenfranchising.

The works themselves present as fragments and while it might be easy to characterisemany as landscapes he rejects the term in favour of describing them as environments orenvironmental.

Marcus lives and works in London.​