The Art Gallery as Art – New Impressions Series

Posted on March 22, 2015 Under London Dada

In collaboration with Derby artist Jack Halford, Michael St.Mark’s 2012 concept of positing the UK’s major galleries are also art in themselves, as a means of Democratizing Art TM; is here further broadened to include frottage impressions of the exterior gallery walls, using acrylic paint and oil pastels on artist paper in A3 & A4 sizes. Linkback to The Art Gallery as Art from 2013.

The first series in this new conceptual direction for the frottage technique ( details & history here ), was created using the north wall of the Hayward Gallery, South Bank on Wednesday 18th March 2015. (Documentary photos below.)

* Note. No damage to the wall surface occured and no residual paint marks were left as a result of creating these Works

Top; Jack Halford at Hayward Gallery with Impressions Nos 1-3 & mid-creation of HGI No 5 ( all acrylics )
Above; Michael St. Mark creating Hayward Gallery Impressions No 6 ( oil pastel ) YouTube docu video to follow

THE WORKS

HG Impression No 6 & Impression No 3 ( of a triptych of acrylic impressions ( see top page) )

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Further frottage Works ( using oil pastels through artists’ paper ) in the Art Gallery as Art series, using the exterior walls of Tate Modern, Tate Britain and Saatchi galleries. ( Blurred effect created by each of the the rough external wall textures of the galleries is actual and not a focusing error. )