Mark Croxford
Mark Croxford’s work refers to the texture and vitality of the rural landscape. His wall-based constructions, made mainly of found or second life materials, hint of growing up in the inner city but don’t recall a specific place or time – more a displaced memory that evokes a sense of past and habitation.
His use of two and a half dimensions allows his work to straddle preconceived norms, and engages his sculptures in physical space while still pointing to the metaphysical.
Mark’s vibrant constructions take as their starting point a confident handling of line, an element which is most commonly associated with two-dimensional work.
Here, however, the linear is made three-dimensional. Combined with strong colour, these graphic outlines become sculptures which celebrate the interplay between colour and form.
There is no mistaking the pleasure Mark takes in the interplay of forms & colours. Colours pulse and patterns drift over surfaces. Shapes assert themselves only to be dissolved again in the immateriality of colour.
