Sydney, NSW, Australia
Mark Titmarsh (born 1955, Ingham, Australia) is a visual artist working in painting, video and writi...
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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 painti...
University of Technology, Sydney 2005-2009
PhD Sydney, Australia
Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney 1990–1993
Master of Visual Arts in Painting Sydney, Australia
St. Martin’s College of Art 1979–1980
and London, England
University of New South Wales 1981-1983
Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts Sydney, Australia
University of Queensland 1973–1976
Bachelor of Laws Brisbane, Australia