Artist Profile
Marc Wayland
Marc Wayland’s work Beyond the Hungry Away further develops the subjects Wayland explores through photography and printmaking. The difference between living and dying is thought of as a fragile membrane. It is that proximity to death and the corresponding vibration of the human soul that is a constantly re-occurring theme. Beyond the Hungry Away represented a continuation of his two-year investigation into portraiture of the spirit. What began as a series of portraits of dead friends developed into turning the camera on the beauty and vitality of those alive. ‘Capture the death of me and mirror it back to me lest I forget how to live’. Merely approaching that work created sufficient turbulence to disturb its material nature and give it a life beyond itself. Beyond the Hungry Away comprised of large photographic images printed on layers of fabric and exploited both natural and artificial light in the installation. Wayland studied combined arts at Brighton in the late eighties, and upon moving to London became intrigued by the sex industry and its power dynamics. He also worked as a story board artist, art director and director on a variety of music promo projects, and during subsequent years performed with Aiden Shaw’s Whatever throughout the USA and Europe. In 2002 whilst at the Royal College of Art he received the Alf Dunn Printmaking Award and the Helen Chadwick travel Award. MA Fine Art Print Making, The Royal College of Art, London. Marc has recently exhibited at Werkstatt Galerie in Berlin as part of Comet Prussia group show, an attempt to show what the Prussian state-idea has become today, purging it of nostalgia and projecting it on to a contemporary screen.
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