Marcus
Clarke Artist 
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Left Marcus and Ron. The Puppet Person Artist, Art Collective.
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Exploring Multiple Identities by combining
Fine Art and Puppetry.
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When Marcus Clarke
was 14 yrs of age his Step Father worked the
night shift at the local Raleigh bicycle
factory and his mother was a cleaner in a
Care Home. "Wouldn't it be nice
if we were older. Then we wouldn't have to
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 Six Cherry Blossoms |
 Money - Bitcoin the Currency |
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Fairy Stories for Lost Child Hoods Visual Art Exhibition 2022 13th January to 25th February. More information here |
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Hangings. 2022 Selected Long List Visual Art Open. 2022 Fairy Stories for Lost Child Hoods at Mansfield Library Gallery. more 2020 Selected to Stage1. Visual Art Open. 2019 Selected to Stage1. Visual Art Open. 2017 Pre-Selected Mall Gallery. Royal Society of Marine Artists. Title Faded Beach Hut. 2017 Fisher-Patterson Gallery Gt.Yarmouth, MO Sheringham Museum. RSM Sheringham Art Exhibition - Refreshing Seaside Memories. More 2017 Floor One Gallery Nottingham RSM Sheringham Art Exhibition - Refreshing Seaside Memories. 2015 First Floor Gallery Central Library, Nottingham. The DogHorseCoat Art Exhibition and Homeless in the Puppetised City. More 2015 Surface Gallery International Postcard Show. Two works. Naval rule and Poster. 2014 The National Open Art Competition 2014 Shortlisted 2014 Homeless in the Puppetised City Art Exhibition One man show Nottingham. 13x works and Video more 2014 Surface Gallery International Postcard Show 1xPostcard Work 2013 Surface Gallery International Postcard Show 1xPostcard Work 2012 FAB Fringe Arts Bath 2012. Mis-in-Formation. 3x works exhibited. Curator Diane Ali 2011 Nottingham Castle Gallery Annual Open 2011 1x Intervention and 1x exhibited work plus Video Film made. 2011 Surface Gallery Nottingham 'Salon des Refuse's' 2x works exhibited. 2010 4 Puppetised Jackets Project and Art Exhibition. Broad Marsh Centre. more 1977 Mansfield College of Art, now Vision West Notts College. Various. |
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Artifacts Marcus's Collage and Assemblage Modern Day, Medieval Style Reliquaries as Art 2014-2019  |
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 2017 Nail Fairy IX above 2018 Title:The Tooth Fairy right |
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 2018 Title: Windrush Orphans This Artwork Draws on an experience the artist, Marcus Clarke, had as a child while in the National Children's Home (NCH) Orphanage, Princess Alice, Birmingham, England. |
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2018 Title: You're Not Going Nowhere. West Bridgford 1971. The Middle Class Marriage Trap. 2018 Title: Howdy Stranger Influenced by the experience of being a foreigner and Marcus's childhood years in Canada. (right) |
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This series of
artworks created 2014-19 draw on older art forms like
Medieval Reliquary, Well Dressing, Religious Iconography
and other Sacred Art but also on Mankind’s eternal human
need to share things, Keepsakes, Mementos, Souvenirs,
Heirlooms, Memorials and Memories. Each work is built or
made up around one central character, thing, object, with
ideas and reactions radiating out of it in various degrees
and volumes to create an illuminating and emotive flow
that's then frozen in a visual artwork.Right Title: NCH Sheringham Front Door. Marcus entered National Children's Home Orphanage, Hooks Hill, Sheringham, England at 4yrs of age.
Top Left Title: Orphelia Rabbit Drowned. Drowning is a birth, rebirth risk.
Title - Death Defying Evel
Title - Super
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Title:M&S Prawn
Sandwich - Relic of a Memorable Meal. Below right. Series: Food - Suppers |
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Title: Klee Angel and Elfie Pixie  |
Title: Football Man |
Above Title: Dainty Deities - Mouse, Bear. Above Right Title: Stuck
RSM Sheringham Art Exhibition
Marcus Clarke's Art Exhibition of 2017 - Called: RSM Sheringham - Refreshing Seaside Memories.
Click the image below for more information about that.
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Sheringham's Norfolk - Coastal Keepsakes - Objet
d'Art - approx 16x10cm Beachcombed and Found Norfolk Objects with Antique Jewellery and Puppet Making materials, Vacuum sealed.     |
Artists Background Born in the East End of London. Emigrated to Canada as a Baby, returned to England and NCH Orphananages before being settled in Nottinghamshire where he now lives. Marcus Clarke is primarily known as a Puppeteer for Film and Television, he is Bookaboo in the Multi BAFTA and other award winning EMMY Nominated Amazon Studio's/CBC Canada Kids TV Series, Bookaboo.
He is also a Puppet Maker and his partnership company, Hands Up Puppets made the UK Channel 5's Milkshake Monkey Puppet and RTE's Ogri Puppet, which featured on Ireland's National Postage Stamp. His work from Little Shop of Horrors, The Storyteller, Dappledown Farm, A Star Wars Story:Hans Solo to Milkshake Monkey and his handiwork has been on our screens for over 30 years. More and Short Stories.
Left, Good Wishes. Right Beautiful Quantum Theory
'Reading into it' Shortlisted
for NOA 2014.Marcus successfully experimented with a strand of work called 'Art Writing'. He has been BAFTA nominated for his short form composition and script editing work. Now he either incorporates this text, dialogue, conversation into the artworks themselves or into the label element of them.
(far left) Space Dog from The DogHorse Coat Art Exhibition.
(Oct 2016) Other ArtworksI found this signed picture of my White Rabbit on eBay and bought it. It's of Crabtree Rabbit (Puppet) who starred in BBC's Tricky Business Children's TV Programme of 1989 . It's signed by me, as I was the Puppeteer and voice of this puppet character and I remember signing this one as the Biro didn't work, but that's it. We also made this Puppet. When I thought about it, this signed photo and all those years ago, I realised that this signed picture was a relic of me and of that time. A different world of beliefs, emotions, ideas and ambitions. So I decided to give it the New Art Enshrinement treatment and here it is. A Treasured Relic I call 'Tricky Relic'. (Far right)
Having created one relic from an old signed Puppet Photograph of mine I decided to wholly create another from scratch and from the same year, 1989, when I was also the Puppeteer and Voice of Dapple the Horse in TVAM's Dappledown Farm Kids TV Series. A Puppet we also made. Adopting the aspect of the Medieval Mind but utilising modern technology, I found an old photograph, printed it and signed it and then, New Art Enshrined it, as something to revere, to Treasure. I call it 'Dapple Relic'. (I await the Pilgrims).
Experiments with Celebrations 2015
Events and Greetings Cards to create Memento's, Relics as Artworks.
Experiments with Nature and Vacuum forming 2015
The Treasure Tree, The Dancing Tree, Heart Nose Tree and Crown Tree.
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  The Ever Changing
Faces of the Gladstone Hotel Series 2015.Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario. Canada.  |
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2015 Puppetised Postcards project (above) adds
to Marcus's Puppetisation practice ideas and techniques
drawn from traditional Reliquary and Well Dressing,
utilising modern Vacuum Sealing technology to suggest a
frozen moment in time. Memory. In 2014 Marcus had a major exhibition called Homeless in the Puppetised City in Nottingham which was restaged at The Floor 1, Exhibition Space, Nottingham City Central Library and over the whole of February 2015.
It included old and new works created under the banner, The DogHorse Coat giving the Exhibition its title. Upper right DogHorse Coat is titled 'Space Dogs'.
This was followed up in 2017 with another exhibition of completely new works.
2012/13 4 Puppetised Jackets a Fashion Creation/Puppetry Arts project was undertaken to, Create and Exhibit Men's Fashion Jackets. see below
Title. Helena my Love.
(Right) 2015
Iconic Portraiture style. Materials used.
Photo of Helena Smee on Cardboard with Jewellery and Acrylic Gems lastly Vacuum Sealed in Poly Bag and hung by string with wooden clothes line clips.
Title. Marcus Clarke Self Portrait 4.
Pencil, graphite pen, charcoal on paper with shirt, foam, faux fur and sculpted and cast styrene eyeball. Button, hairgrips, feathers and shoelace on Foam Board.
The DOGHORSE COAT Exhibition held over February 2015.At the Floor 1, Exhibition Space, Central Library Nottingham.
Pet Dog Coats are given a Modern yet Medieval and Heraldic twist. With personal commentary.
Above Puppetised Dog Coat is titled
OEillet rouget, longe langue.
See the Exhibition page The DogHorse Coat Art Exhibition
Homeless
in the Puppetised City a landmark Exhibition, one man show, in the
City of Nottingham held Easter 2014. 12x new large canvas
based Puppetised works of Nottingham City Buildings are
stared at by a lonely homeless Puppet child in an
instillation style exhibition that includes video
composite playouts. There are also accompanying and
complementing family Building image based Puppetising
activity workshops. All very well received and reviewed.Completed Puppetised works featured in Nottingham Arts Magazine Left Lion in the run up to the Exhibition
Printed itemCatalogue for iPad Free eBook
Exhibition Page
Facebook Page
Press Release
Homeless in the Puppetised
City Workshop. An accompanying family building Puppetisation workshop developed tested and delivered to excellent evaluation.
See Educational
Marcus initially returns to Contemporary Art in
2010 with these Puppetised works and founds
PuppetTVGraffiti.
Some British Art Show 7 Venues for 2011 are Puppetised.
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Puppetised Sculpture. Reliquario di Pinocchio (2012 right) A rare puppetised object. A fragment of the true nose of Pinocchio in it's original Reliquary. More  (2012 Left) Taps Remembrance. |
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 Some Quotes. "interesting juxtaposition, an eclectic mishmash, a concentration of tropes". "Gesamtkunstwerk". Anon "A local artist, making a mark regionally, nationally and internationally". Peter Knott. ACE. "I've never worried about being found out. I know I'm not a fraud." Marcus Clarke |
Some PressF- ACT Magazine Canberra Australia 2017 Fusion:5 Inspirational pieces of Artwork from Marcus Clarke feature
RSM Sheringham Art Exhibition 2017 Fisher-Patterson Gallery GT.Yarmouth
The front Cover of June/July 2011 Nottingham Culture Magazine 'LeftLion' Created by Marcus Clarke. (far right)
Nottingham Post Feb 2015
DogHorse Coat Art Exhibition Feature. (right)Left Lion feb 2015 DogHorse Coat Art Exhibition Feature
Inside is an interview with Marcus Clarke. Interview
LeftLion Shoot Video
Previous LeftLion Article. Previous
InTouch Magazine interview
BBC Articles and Radio Interviews. BBC
Childhood Short Stories page
Surface GalleryInternational Postcard Show
2016 The Ascania to Canada (right)
At the International Postcard Show 2016
"As a child in 1957 I emigrated to Canada from my birthplace in London, England, on this Ship. It was absolutely full of Hungarian Refugees from the Uprising. Many slept out on the open deck."
2015 Two works including, The Naval Rule. (Art Writing).
2014 Right Black Spot. (Art Writing).
2013 Below. Titled, The Surface Gallery Bug.
Many Artists have done
a Self Portrait and I wanted to do one too. 2013 I
got out all of my Puppetised Pictures to show a
Magazine Editor. I saw the opportunity to grab a
photo of myself with my Pictures. Helena (below)
obliged. More
4 Puppetised Jacket's Project page
It's Puppetised Fashion
SS Norway HMS Barham Puppetised Train 1
Thank You for Visiting.
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