'Orbital' (2001)
Lithograph with spot varnish on paper
Edition of 150
Signed and numbered by the artist
(23" x 30")
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six foot person and work to scale
Mark Francis
1962
Born in Northern Ireland Francis now works and lives in London.
Mark Francis first became known in the early 90s for his seductive paintings of magnified cells and microbes. Since then he has exhibited widely both in the UK and abroad, playing a part in the recent boom in British art. While he has always remained slightly distanced from the brasher core of young British artists, he has nevertheless been a regular participant in landmark British painting exhibitions over the last decade.
Francis makes paintings that are based on scientific images of microbiology - such as bacteria and cells - and produces the final works with a perfectly smooth wet-on-wet style. His paintings are usually monochromatic descriptions of cellular clusters, scattered within the parameters of large-scale canvases. The individual cells are softly painted and seem to float just beneath the picture plane. This softness removes the stronger clinical connotations, allowing the paintings to become highly tactile objects as well as powerful abstract images. The paintings draw out the consequent ambiguity of enlarging such a tiny area of space, to the point where the scale makes the pictorial elements artificial and dominating.
Francis' work is held in several permanent collections including the Saatchi Collection and the Tate and has exhibited international.
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