Blank Media Collective

Resume

Biography / Personal Statement

“Works of art always spring from those who have faced the danger, gone to the very end of an experience, to the point beyond which no human being can go.The further one dares to go, the more decent, the more personal, the more unique a life becomes.” *


Mark Devereux specialises in the use of camera-less photography, as well as using the camera as a tool to create abstract imagery. Mark’s work suggests similarities and correspondences with other more representational forms of imagery. Such correspondences evoke thoughts about cosmology, how photography has been used to reveal our universe to us and concepts of the sublime.The theme of Alchemy is significant throughout Mark’s practice, ranging from the ways in which the work is created to the connotations that it has for the viewer.


Mark Devereux is a Manchester-based artist and curator. Since graduating from BA (HONS) Photography and MA Fine Art at Staffordshire University he has been involved in a number of successful exhibitions around the country. Mark is also the founder, Director and Exhibitions Coordinator of Blank Media Collective. For further information about Mark’s practice please visit www.markdevereux.co.uk


* Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space, Beacon Press 1994, ISBN 0807064734

Exhibitions & Shows

  • Presence
  • Regional Science & Learning Centre, Keele University
  • April 2006 - Present
  • Group Show

Collection of work purchased for permanent collection

  • Angle of Refraction
  • greenroom, Manchester
  • 4 August 2010 - 4 September 2010
  • Group Show

Group exhibition curated by Blank Media Collective

  • blank expression
  • Zion Arts Centre, Manchester
  • 7 July 2007 - 15 July 2007
  • Group Show

Group exhibition curated by Blank Media Collective

  • No Such Thing
  • Custard Factory, Birmingham
  • 10 April 2007 - 13 April 2007
  • Group Show

Group exhibition curated by No Such Thing Collective

  • MAFA 2006
  • Staffordshire University
  • September 2006 - September 2006
  • Group Show

Final exhibition - MA Fine Art

  • Revive
  • Wolseley Bridge Nature Reserve
  • 11 May 2006 - 24 May 2006
  • Group Show

Site-specific Installation work

  • MAFA 2005
  • Staffordshire University
  • September 2005 - September 2005
  • Group Show

Interim exhibition - MA Fine Art

  • Figure It Out
  • Warmwalls Contemporary Art Gallery, Nantwich
  • 10 April 2005 - 21 May 2005
  • Group Show

Group exhibition

  • Seeing in a Different Light
  • Warmwalls Contemporary Art Gallery, Nantwich
  • 19 February 2005 - 9 April 2005
  • Group Show

Group exhibition

  • Alchemy
  • Central Library, Lincoln
  • 23 August 2004 - 28 August 2004
  • Solo Show

Solo exhibition

  • Staffordshire University Degree Show
  • fordshire University
  • 19 June 2004 - 24 June 2004
  • Group Show

Final exhibition - BA (HONS) Design: Photography

Experience

  • Director
  • Blank Media Collective
  • November 2006 - Present
  • Manchester

Founder and Director of Blank Media Collective

Education

  • MA Fine Art
  • Staffordshire University
  • Stoke-on-Trent
  • September 2004 - September 2006

Pass with Merit

  • BA (HONS) Design: Photography
  • Staffordshire University
  • Stoke-on-Trent
  • September 2001 - July 2004

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