(click image for more details)You Suffer (from the 'All in the name of...' series), 2008
plan print on paper
A0
The Death of Peter Fechter, 2007
14.8cm x 21cm
S Mark Gubb works across many of the available artistic media. His ideas tend to define in which one he feels his work can best be realised. For him, the making of the work and its dissemination within a wider – and the most appropriate – context are part of the same package.
Gubb's subjects are drawn from the social and political culture he grew up within; an equal fascination with things he finds both great and terrible about the world in which we live. This often takes the form of a re-evaluation and re-interpretation of contemporary culture and history, and increasingly extends to using 'non-arts' audiences in either the production of or as part of the final audience for the work.
By drawing on such recognisable things, he is using them, equally, as pointers
to the works' meaning and an acknowledgement that all he knows is all he knows, until he knows something else; offering an opinion and holding it up for others to engage with:
'By default, to make an impact in any given sphere, that sphere has to engage with you, and by being engaged with, you are, immediately no longer on the outside of that sphere or power structure.'1
Paul Stone, 2008
1. S Mark Gubb, 'Great Expectations', interview with Gordon Dalton, Axis dialogue online journal, Issue 1, December 2005 - March 2006
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