Mark Maxwell

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Mark Maxwell is a British artist and designer. He works in various media including painting, video and installation.

[edit] Life and work

Born in Withington, Manchester in 1966, he studied art and design at Salford College and later Suffolk College.
In 1987 he was an assistant to artist/musician Brian Eno on live events involving the creation of set and lighting elements to live concert performances.
In 1992 worked with designer Carl Hahn on the design of the 'History of the Pop Video' at the Museum of the Moving Image (MOMI) London
and in 1995 worked with Jonathan Park and Mark Fisher at Fisher Park Design Consultancy, projects included the Voodoo Lounge Tour
- The Rolling Stones. In 1998 he collaborated with Jonathan Park (now Studio Park Consultancy) on several projects including the illumination of churches in Poplar, East London, England, for the Lansbury festival, set and projection design for Roger Waters Tours (In the Flesh),
Amnesty International concert (Radiohead) and designs for the 2002 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony.
A site specific sculpture was created for the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) utilising aluminium, etched glass and slow colour changing LED's.
In 2003 Mark created the video contents and the set design for pop group Feeder, the tour - 'Comfort in Sound'.
Later in 2003 Mark was asked to design 'experiences' for Madame Tussauds. Set design, concepts, video creation and lighting were created for several projects including the 'Hulk Experience' (Hulk) and in 2004 the 'Spiderman Experience' (Spiderman).
Marks' artworks have been exhibited in many galleries and are in various collections including Barclays Bank plc, the National Australia Bank plc, Liberty Reinsurance and Britel Fund.
In October 2006 The Artsdepot Gallery in North London invited Mark to exhibit his work in their first artist solo show.
His exhibited works included videos of metals undergoing electrolytic processes entitled 'Element', a video entitled 'Gethsemane' referencing the poem by Rudyard Kipling about Christ and the soldiers on the front line in the Great War and a large sculptural wall relief in braille entitled 'Three words'...