Mark Titchner

born 1973, Luton, UK | lives and works in London, UK

Mark Titchner works across a range of media including public works, sculpture, installation and video. Titchner’s modes of production vary dramatically between highly finished digitally designed pieces to meticulous hand carved sculptures. Titchner combines these disparate elements to form elaborate installations that reverberate with many voices. An extraordinary variety of messages adorn his works, scavenged from song lyrics, philosophical tracts, scientific treatises and occult religions. Describing his work as ‘a dialogue about how you receive thoughts and ideas’, Titchner’s work investigates how ideologies are formed and the problems associated with their communication and distribution to us. He has exhibited his work extensively internationally in museums, galleries and public sites. He was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2006 and took part in the Venice Biennale in 2007.

Why do you create art?
To try and understand the world just a little bit better. To reflect on why we are what we are rather than something else, maybe something better. What else is there?