Mark Leckey
born 1964
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Biography
Mark Leckey (born 1964) is a British contemporary artist, working with collage art, music and video. His found object art and found footage pieces span several videos, most notably Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (1999) and Industrial Light and Magic (2008), for which he won the 2008 Turner Prize.
His work has been widely exhibited internationally, including solo exhibitions at Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, in 2008 and at Le Consortium, Dijon, in 2007. His performances have been presented in New York City at the Museum of Modern Art, Abrons Arts Center; at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, both in 2009; and at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, in 2008. His works are held in the collections of the Tate and the Centre Pompidou.
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Mark Leckey: 'I wallow in the mire of nostalgia'
Turner Prize winning artist Mark Leckey returns to Liverpool to talk about his video work Dream English Kid
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Push and Pull
In 1963 Allan Kaprow created the performance environment Push and Pull: A Furniture Comedy for Hans Hoffmann, for which he ...
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Britishistory: Talk it Up!
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Turner Prize Artist Talk: Mark Leckey
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Turner Prize Exhibition Talk: Dan Fox
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Turner Prize 2008: Fiona Bradley
Love it or hate it, the Turner Prize gets everyone talking. At this event Fiona Bradley, Director of Edinburgh's ...
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Turner Prize Artist Talk: Mark Leckey
With wit and originality Mark Leckey combines sculpture, film, sound and performance to communicate his fascination with underground music and ...
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British Art Talks: Music: Ryan Gander, Mark Leckey and Daria Martin
This panel discussion explores the contemporary relationship between art and music
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Objects That Speak for Themselves
Since the birth of humans as sentient beings, we have believed in the animistic nature of things – of plants ...
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Mark Leckey born 1964 and Florian Hecker born 1975Untitled 2011, later Hecker Leckey Sound Voice Chimera
Case study on Mark Leckey and Florian Hecker's Untitled 2011, later known as Hecker Leckey Sound Voice Chimera, part ...
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Why artists make good curators
How do artists approach the challenge of curation? As well as showing some of his recent large, highly coloured sculptures ...
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The luminous view: Recent Artists's Film and Video in Britain 2008-13
Tate Britain is staging an ambitious survey of artists' film and video which reflects the extraordinary blossoming and diversity of ...
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The art of noise
Almost 100 years ago, shortly before the outbreak of the First World War, the Italian Futurist Luigi Russolo proposed the ...
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