This Artwork, one of x12 at Marcus’s current Art Exhibition at Mansfield Library Gallery called Fairy Stories for Lost Child Hoods was part inspired by a chance seeing of a Poster for ‘Sinderella’ outside the Cambridge Theatre in the West End some years ago. It was their Christmas Panto. The title character and another, Baron Hard On, made it clear that this was going to be an adult Farce filled with double entendre and that despite the French phrasing, clearly it would have little middle class so called sophistication and be more working class, ooh no misses. So lots to sniff at. It made me smile. That was in Seven Dials. So when I came to create this Cinderella Fairy Story Artwork the Construction suggested a radiating Glory from which contrasting colours emit in a 60’s bright palette and in both thick paint (new for me) and coloured Doll Dresses laid out in Collage style. I’m insinuating abundant accessible 60’s fashion, that which followed the more exclusive Haute Couture of the 50’s to frame Cinderella as working class and timeless. Likewise, Cakes and Sweets play in to the idea of cheap luxury and the battle some make to keep ‘slim, young and beautiful’ by avoiding them. The Doll is surrounded by a Theatrical quick changing curtain and is indeed naked beneath it, although to reveal it would simply reveal two Glory style eyes. One in Gold and another in Silver. The whole idea of Cinderella in this story is about a poor girl achieving wealth and status because of her Beauty. So I’ve tried to put it all in this Artwork but in a light fun way, it’s Cinderella along with many other Sins.
The overall exhibition’s viewpoint is from that of experiencing Fairy Stories only as an adult. Something many of us have done that have not had conventional childhoods, had particularly poor ones or because the Fairy Story telling childhood convention was simply not in our childhood culture. Marcus’s own childhood didn’t include them and so his first experience of Children’s Fairy Stories was while presenting children’s television. He’s now shared this experience and developed ideas about presenting Fairy Stories from this unconventional, new perspective with among others, inmates in the Prison Network. This heralds a new direction for the artist away from Capture and Vacuum Sealing moving towards a more Painterly and Abstract style without losing the Assemblage and Reliquary influences that have become a bedrock of his Arts Practice.
And with the Cinderella artwork (60x40cm Acrylic on Canvas) created for his Fairy Stories for Lost Child Hoods Art Exhibition at the Mansfield Library Gallery he again experimented with applying the artwork to some real world Teen+ Culture items. To see if it might work as art and within those cultures but also to see if he could increase engagement with his art and the overall exhibition.
Here also in the link is the Cinderella artwork’s making of video for the Fairy Stories for Lost Child Hoods Art Exhibition, Spoken Word is The Hanky Pank Players, Grimm’s Fairy Tales 1960 RCA Vinyl LP Marcus has added some Synth Rythm’s he composed in early 80’s style. He jest loved the wacky style of the spoken word, Milliganesk. More information on the Video and the Musical Journey around his time at Mansfield College of art is in the Video information and at the actual exhibition. On until the 25th Feb 2022.
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