Mark Leckey lives in London, UK. Leckey uses a variety of media – including film, sculpture, sound and performance
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Leckey has an ongoing fascination with the affective power of images, music and technology, and often uses reconfigured archival footage in his work.
Mark Leckey has assembled a film using archival material from television shows, advertisements and music, to create a record of all the significant events of his life from the 1970s until the 1990s. For Liverpool Biennial 2016, Dream English Kid is presented in an environment that contains new sculptural works connected to material in the film. It is shown at the Blade Factory.
Leckey has had solo exhibitions at many major international galleries and museums including MoMA PS1, New York, USA (2016); Secession, Vienna, Austria (2015); Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (2015); WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, Belgium (2014); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA (2013); the Serpentine Gallery, London, UK (2011); Le Consortium, Dijon, France (2007); and Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland (2003). He has an exhibition on currently at Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, UK (2016).
Mark Leckey at Liverpool Biennial 2016
Dream English Kid 1964 – 1999 AD, 2015
Single channel 4:3 projection with 5.1 surround sound
Exhibited at the Blade Factory, Camp and Furnace
SOX Lamps, 2014
Sodium lamps
Exhibited at the Blade Factory, Camp and Furnace
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Mark Leckey, Dream English Kid, 1964 – 1999 AD, 2015. Photo courtesy of the artist and Cabinet London. -
Mark Leckey, Dream English Kid, 1964 – 1999 AD, 2015. Photo courtesy of the artist and Cabinet London.
Mark Leckey: Dream English Kid on Tour
How has the digital age changed the way we conceptualise of our past and memories? Mark Leckey’s ‘autobiographical’ film Dream English Kid 1964 – 1999 AD was inspired by found footage of Eric’s club in Liverpool, where the artist attended a Joy Division gig in his youth. The film comprises material from TV shows, adverts and YouTube videos, actualising half-forgotten memories to create a record of significant events in the artist’s life. Following showings in galleries around the world, Dream English Kid and Leckey’s career-defining work Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore are back in the North West for an exhibition at The Turnpike in Leigh, Greater Manchester throughout summer 2017.
Film by Carl Davies, FACT Video Production Services
Encounters at Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre
Featuring interactive sculptures, film and immersive soundscapes, Encounters brings together works by leading international artists presented at Liverpool Biennial 2016 to Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre in Greater Manchester. Mark Leckey’s Dream English Kid 1964 – 1999 AD is the artist’s attempt to retrace the significant events of his life through archival footage on the internet. In the Sculpture Centre, visitors can discover sculptural and sound ‘portals’ by Céline Condorelli, an artwork by Audrey Cottin waiting to be activated through collaboration, and Rita McBride’s sculptural memories of buildings consumed by time. Encounters is on view until 9 September 2017.
Part of the Liverpool Biennial touring programme, which brings artworks by international artists presents at the 2016 Biennial to six art organisations in the North of England.
Film by Carl Davies, FACT Video Production Services