Mark Elliot-Ranken

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Mark Elliot-Ranken Mark Elliott-Ranken artist
Galapagos
acrylic on canvas
180 x 220 cm
unframed
Mark Elliot-Ranken Fugitive Memories
Fugitive Memories
acrylic on canvas
150 x 150 cm
unframed
Mark Elliot-Ranken The Green Space
The Green Space
acrylic on canvas
153 x 200 cm
unframed
Mark Elliot-Ranken Random Acts Installation
Random Acts Installation
acrylic on canvas
180 x 90 x 5 cm
unframed

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Mark Elliot-Ranken

Mark Elliot-Ranken

Mark Elliot-Ranken Biography

AN ESSAY ON HOW I WORK (and live)

Dr. M. K. Elliot-Ranken

I do not start any work these days with much of a fixed idea, just notions and internal rumors.  Always in front of the canvas no matter the size I find the point is to act, a slash across the middle, always the middle no poncing around the edges like a swimmer putting one’s toe in to see if it’s too cold just in and take the consequences.  The consequences are not that bad no matter what you do its only canvas and coloured muds after all. The meaning of it, the art is in the act. The failure to act and be the verb condemns one to the wilderness of names and pronouns a desolate place, an all too known place a space of bourgeois respectability and timidity.  Art is after all, dangerous.

What then am I searching for?  Language but not that which we use in our workaday lives. No this is the language of creativity. Possibly what Carl Jung described as a system of signs and symbols to navigate the subconscious. It is also more of a creole than a systemized language weak on structure, strong on adaptability and vocabulary and always in a state of becoming something new.  We all have it but too often this creative language is lost in the process of growing up and the regimentation of education, a system that has surely lost its way.

I find that I’m getting fiercer about these things as I age, perhaps the only positive about this arcane and not especially enlightening process called ‘growing old’ no matter what they say about the fifties’ being the new middle age, is its bunkum! One is less likely to put up with stuff (and people as well) that wastes one’s time because one does not have all that much of the latter left to waste. Best be getting on with the verb of life not to mention ‘Art’. Because it remains the chance encounter of immense significance of oneself with oneself … to know oneself.

Mark Elliot-Ranken Resumé

Exhibitions and Projects

 

2019: Currently represented at Graphis Art Sydney, Art Act Artarmon, Disorder Gallery Darlinghust and Art Forum Singapore

2018: Artist in residence Albany at the Vancouver Art Centre WA, Exhibitor Group Exhibition ‘Concerning Peace’ Maitland Regional Art Gallery, spoken word poetry at various venues

2017: Collaborative Installation, University of Sydney for the Students Union, Collaborative Installation, The The Sawmiller’s Prize North Sydney, Collaborative performance installation, Woolongong Nocturne Arts Festival,  Collaborative Installation, Bayside Art Prize   

2016: Group Exhibition Dank St. Gallery

2015: Art on the Greenway Commission

2013: Kaleidoscope Exhibition, Kaleidoscope Gallery & Out of Hand Exhibition, Depot Gallery.

2012: Two person exhibition Krisie Cotter Gallery Cqmperdown

2012:“Be Here Now” two person Exhibition, Fire Gallery Enmore, work on exhibition at Graphis Art & Design & Kaleidoscope Gallery Sydney, Art Forum Gallery, Singapore and ASW, Newcastle

2012; Three person Exhibition Dank St Gallery, Waterloo

2011; Transitions Two person Exhibition, ASW, Newcastle 2010; PhD graduating Exhibition; ‘Nomad Strategy: Reduction’ Newcastle University Gallery Gallaghan Campus, Newcastle

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