Born in Trinidad, for Marcus beauty, the sublime and surface laid the foundation for his artistic perspective. He moved to London to study for an MFA at Chelsea College of Art and studied for his BFA in Montreal at Concordia University.

Marcus has a focus on formalism and materiality and how that interfaces with social
values in painting. In his words “we have long come to understand that art can be many other things than a painting on a wall but this isn’t in that universe.

This is a universe removed from institutional aspirations or appeal to art historical discourse where to the body to which the work belongs it is only a finger or a chin.
The rest of the body is the social context in which it has a life”.

This sentiment does sit right at the centre of recent art historiography, bringing what was outside in or platforming the unseen. This is art exploration of dual states, challenging the notion 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 touch on displacement or the eroding of the autochthonous to the repurposing of cultural context.

His scenes evoke the perverse romanticisation of the nomad, vagabond, migrant or pilgrim sleeping rough, squatting or seeking out elemental encounters and the duality of this as both free and disenfranchising.

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

Marcus lives and works in London.