"uncovering" 2007 Sculpture

Mark Titmarsh (born 1955, Ingham, Australia) is a visual artist working in painting, video and writing. His paintings and filmwork are currently held in public collections across Australia, and in private collections in Europe and the United States. In the1980s he established an international reputation as an experimental filmmaker exhibiting in Europe, North America and South America winning awards at Ann Arbor and Montreal International Festivals. In Australia he was a significant contributor to the development of the postmodern debate in the visual arts in his role as co-editor of the Visual Arts magazine, On the Beach and as a new image painter. In the 1990s he co-founded the Sydney based artists group Art Hotline that exhibited ephemeral works in non-gallery everyday sites. He also edited a book documenting their activities between 1992 and 1995. Much of this work could be described as post-painting objects in that they take the form of 3 dimensional constructions that refer specifically to the conceptual aspects of painting. His screen based work included video and experimental websites that were exhibited in Multimedia Arts Asia Pacific in 2000. His current work executed under the rubric of "˜expanded painting' is painting about painting or painting that dissimulates into objects, videos and texts. Recent work has included paintings on industrial materials, environments of fluorescent string and video works for mobile phones. In early 2006 he was a cofounder of the artist run space, Loose Projects. Mark is currently a tenured, part time lecturer in the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, where he has taught Image Making and Screen Media Production in the Visual Communication Program since 1999. Prior to taking up these appointments, he was a lecturer at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney where he has taught Theory and History of Art Production, Studio Theory, Electronic and Temporal Arts, and Painting, lecturer in the School of Visual and Performing Arts, University of Western Sydney. Previously, he taught Drawing (Visual Research Illustration) in the Design School, University of Western Sydney; the College of Fine Art, University of New South Wales; and the National Art School. Additionally, Mark has taught Video, Filmmaking, Art History and Theory, and Mass Media and Popular Culture.