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Artist: Marc Wilson
The Last Stand. Brean Down I, Somerset, England. 2012
By Marc Wilson
Located in London, GB
The Last Stand. Brean Down I, Somerset, England. 2012
by Marc Wilson
Edition of 15 only, signed by the artist.
Marc Wilson
Exhibitions, talks:
2019 Memory and Light festival, Kaunuas 2022, Lithuania.
2018 Permanent collection - Holocaust Exhibition & learning centre, Huddersfield.
2018 Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Group show.
2017 Oriel Colwyn gallery, Wales. Solo show.
2016 Bonhoga gallery, Shetland. Solo show.
2015 Romania photo festival
2015 Athens Photo Festival - Benaki Museum - Main exhibition
2014 Peacock Visual Arts Aberdeen. Solo show.
2013-2014 The Royal Armouries Museum Leeds. Solo show.
2013 Anise Gallery - London. Solo show.
2013 The Royal Armouries Museum Fort Nelson, Portsmouth. Solo show.
2013 The Affordable Art Fair Eyestorm New York & London
2013 Terry O'Neill Award Lucy Bell gallery, St Leonards
2013 Terry O'Neill Award The Strand gallery, London
2010 Landscape One, The Lucy Bell Gallery, Group show
2006 Association of Photographers, London. Group show.
2006 Association of Photographers, London, Sublime. Group show.
2005 New York contemporary art fair. Group show.
2005 Photo2005, Affordable art fair. Group show.
2004 Fluid gallery, Grenoble, France, Solo show.
2003 Greenpeace Save or delete exhibition, London. Group show
2002 Victoria and Albert Museum, Dislocation
2001 Art 2001, London, Group show.
2000 Focal Point gallery, Southend, Solo show
1999 Now Showing Gallery, London. Solo show
1996 The Photographers Gallery, London. Group show
1996 Instituto Europeo del Design, Milan. Group show
1996 The Back Hill Gallery, Clerkenwell. London. Solo show.
Selected Awards / Publications / Reviews / Talks
2019 Kaunas Pilnas Kulturos - interview (radio and print)
2019 Holland America ship Guest lecturer, Japan.
2018 The Wiener library for Holocaust and Genocide research - talk
2017 The Army and Navy Club, London - talk
2016 Natural History Museum - talk
2016 Radio Resonance conversation
2016 Digital camera Magazine
2016 Professional Photography Magazine
2015 Source
2015 The Telegraph
2015 The Times
2015 The Daily Mail
2015 Wired
2015 Colin Pantall book review
2015 Dezeen
2014 Vice
2014 The Daily Mail
2014 Grafik
2014 Architects Journal
2014 Raw View Magazine
2014 Design Observer / Places Journal
2014 The Guardian Online
2104 Radio 2 talk show - Jeremy Vine
2014 BBC In Pictures
2014 Culture 24
2014 Photoforum - talk
2012 Wayne Ford The Last Stand
2013 Terry O'Neil Award
2013 Photomonitor The Last Stand
2012 aCurator magazine
2006 PDN Photo Annual
2000 Published in British Journal of Photography
1995 Published in British Journal of Photography
Education:
Ma Photography LCP (1999)
Ba Photography LCP (1996)
BSc Sociology Edinburgh University (1992)
The Last Stand – Review by Colin Pantell, 2015.
There is something quite compelling about finding old war defences on the British coastline. Without even looking for them, you stumble on bunkers, radar stations and old radio bases, curious constructions that were never quite put to their fullest possible use and have been left to decay in the face of the sea and the salt and the wind.
These sea defences are the subject of Marc Wilson's book, The Last Stand: Northern Europe, in which he travels around Europe photographing the sea defences of Britain, Belgium, Denmark, Norway and France.
It's large format work and it's quite beautiful (Paul Virilio's Bunker Archaeology may be the most recognised photography of sea defences but that's a different kind of book) . Everything is shot in subdued diffused light, the pre-dawn it looks like much of the time, and the way in which the different defences merge and crumble into the landscape of which they are now part.
At Sainte-Margtuerite-sur-Mer in Normandy, the grey brutalism of bunkers meets with the brutalism of crumbling cliffs, the plates of concrete mirroriing the tectonic plates of a shifting earth. On the pebble beaches, the shards of blackened concrete look like the remains of ancient megaliths, while on the grey sand stretches the slabs look almost soft and malleable.
The Scandanavian defences take on a pagan look. At Vorupor in Denmark, a radar receiver is buried into what looks like peat bog, while on the beach the batteries (which could fire 495 kilogramme projectiles) look like the remains of particularly malevolent beetles.
At Haugesund in Norway, the batteries are folded into the basalt rock formations. The top of one bunker peeks out from a pile of shattered rock like the top of some strange helmet, the opening a visor from which some mysterious being looks out upon the world.
The most attractive patterns are made by tank walls, the one-kilometre wall at Newburgh, Scotland being a particularly fine example, while the anti-submarine barrier in the Firth of Forth is known as 'the dragons' teeth' for good reason.
The English sea defences are curious and range from old gun...
Category
2010s Modern Marc Wilson Art
Materials
C Print, Color
The Last Stand. Sainte-Marguerite-sur-mer, Upper Normandy, France. 2012
By Marc Wilson
Located in London, GB
The Last Stand. Sainte-Marguerite-sur-mer, Upper Normandy, France. 2012
by Marc Wilson
Edition of 15 only, signed by the artist.
Marc Wilson
Exhibitions, talks:
2019 Memory and Light festival, Kaunuas 2022, Lithuania.
2018 Permanent collection - Holocaust Exhibition & learning centre, Huddersfield.
2018 Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Group show.
2017 Oriel Colwyn gallery, Wales. Solo show.
2016 Bonhoga gallery, Shetland. Solo show.
2015 Romania photo festival
2015 Athens Photo Festival - Benaki Museum - Main exhibition
2014 Peacock Visual Arts Aberdeen. Solo show.
2013-2014 The Royal Armouries Museum Leeds. Solo show.
2013 Anise Gallery - London. Solo show.
2013 The Royal Armouries Museum Fort Nelson, Portsmouth. Solo show.
2013 The Affordable Art Fair Eyestorm New York & London
2013 Terry O'Neill Award Lucy Bell gallery, St Leonards
2013 Terry O'Neill Award The Strand gallery, London
2010 Landscape One, The Lucy Bell Gallery, Group show
2006 Association of Photographers, London. Group show.
2006 Association of Photographers, London, Sublime. Group show.
2005 New York contemporary art fair. Group show.
2005 Photo2005, Affordable art fair. Group show.
2004 Fluid gallery, Grenoble, France, Solo show.
2003 Greenpeace Save or delete exhibition, London. Group show
2002 Victoria and Albert Museum, Dislocation
2001 Art 2001, London, Group show.
2000 Focal Point gallery, Southend, Solo show
1999 Now Showing Gallery, London. Solo show
1996 The Photographers Gallery, London. Group show
1996 Instituto Europeo del Design, Milan. Group show
1996 The Back Hill Gallery, Clerkenwell. London. Solo show.
Selected Awards / Publications / Reviews / Talks
2019 Kaunas Pilnas Kulturos - interview (radio and print)
2019 Holland America ship Guest lecturer, Japan.
2018 The Wiener library for Holocaust and Genocide research - talk
2017 The Army and Navy Club, London - talk
2016 Natural History Museum - talk
2016 Radio Resonance conversation
2016 Digital camera Magazine
2016 Professional Photography Magazine
2015 Source
2015 The Telegraph
2015 The Times
2015 The Daily Mail
2015 Wired
2015 Colin Pantall book review
2015 Dezeen
2014 Vice
2014 The Daily Mail
2014 Grafik
2014 Architects Journal
2014 Raw View Magazine
2014 Design Observer / Places Journal
2014 The Guardian Online
2104 Radio 2 talk show - Jeremy Vine
2014 BBC In Pictures
2014 Culture 24
2014 Photoforum - talk
2012 Wayne Ford The Last Stand
2013 Terry O'Neil Award
2013 Photomonitor The Last Stand
2012 aCurator magazine
2006 PDN Photo Annual
2000 Published in British Journal of Photography
1995 Published in British Journal of Photography
Education:
Ma Photography LCP (1999)
Ba Photography LCP (1996)
BSc Sociology Edinburgh University (1992)
The Last Stand – Review by Colin Pantell, 2015.
There is something quite compelling about finding old war defences on the British coastline. Without even looking for them, you stumble on bunkers, radar stations and old radio bases, curious constructions that were never quite put to their fullest possible use and have been left to decay in the face of the sea and the salt and the wind.
These sea defences are the subject of Marc Wilson's book, The Last Stand: Northern Europe, in which he travels around Europe photographing the sea defences of Britain, Belgium, Denmark, Norway and France.
It's large format work and it's quite beautiful (Paul Virilio's Bunker Archaeology may be the most recognised photography of sea defences but that's a different kind of book) . Everything is shot in subdued diffused light, the pre-dawn it looks like much of the time, and the way in which the different defences merge and crumble into the landscape of which they are now part.
At Sainte-Margtuerite-sur-Mer in Normandy, the grey brutalism of bunkers meets with the brutalism of crumbling cliffs, the plates of concrete mirroriing the tectonic plates of a shifting earth. On the pebble beaches, the shards of blackened concrete look like the remains of ancient megaliths, while on the grey sand stretches the slabs look almost soft and malleable.
The Scandanavian defences take on a pagan look. At Vorupor in Denmark, a radar receiver is buried into what looks like peat bog, while on the beach the batteries (which could fire 495 kilogramme projectiles) look like the remains of particularly malevolent beetles.
At Haugesund in Norway, the batteries are folded into the basalt rock formations. The top of one bunker peeks out from a pile of shattered rock like the top of some strange helmet, the opening a visor from which some mysterious being looks out upon the world.
The most attractive patterns are made by tank walls, the one-kilometre wall at Newburgh, Scotland being a particularly fine example, while the anti-submarine barrier in the Firth of Forth is known as 'the dragons' teeth' for good reason.
The English sea defences are curious and range from old gun placements on the white cliffs between Dover and Folkestone and the defences at Studland Bay in Dorset, the bay where the full-scale rehearsal for D-Day took place.
The Last Stand is as multi-layered as the landscapes which it features; there's historical detail wrapped folded over into a chronotopia of functional brutalism, mixed with local touches that feeds into the geological, panoramic and tactical.
All the boxes are ticked in Robert Adams traditional landscape list: there's geography, autobiography, and metaphor. But on top of that, Wilson gives us a politicised view of landscape and power that ties back to survey photography of Timothy O'Sullivan and the work of Mitch Epstein.
Layered into that is an Arcadian vision. With its focus on Northern Europe it's a dystopian Arcadia; there is a pagan feel to Wilson's pictures, a syncretic vision where geology, flora, climate and war find a single expression. And it's beautiful.
Exhibitions, talks:
2019 Memory and Light festival, Kaunuas 2022, Lithuania.
2018 Permanent collection - Holocaust Exhibition & learning centre, Huddersfield.
2018 Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Group show.
2017 Oriel Colwyn gallery, Wales. Solo show.
2016 Bonhoga gallery, Shetland. Solo show.
2015 Romania photo festival
2015 Athens Photo Festival - Benaki Museum - Main exhibition
2014 Peacock Visual Arts Aberdeen. Solo show.
2013-2014 The Royal Armouries Museum Leeds. Solo show.
2013 Anise Gallery - London. Solo show.
2013 The Royal Armouries Museum Fort Nelson, Portsmouth. Solo show.
2013 The Affordable Art Fair Eyestorm New York & London
2013 Terry O'Neill Award Lucy Bell gallery, St Leonards
2013 Terry O'Neill Award The Strand gallery, London
2010 Landscape One, The Lucy Bell Gallery, Group show
2006 Association of Photographers, London. Group show.
2006 Association of Photographers, London, Sublime. Group show.
2005 New York contemporary art fair. Group show.
2005 Photo2005, Affordable art fair. Group show.
2004 Fluid gallery, Grenoble, France, Solo show.
2003 Greenpeace Save or delete exhibition, London. Group show
2002 Victoria and Albert Museum, Dislocation
2001 Art 2001, London, Group show.
2000 Focal Point gallery, Southend, Solo show
1999 Now Showing Gallery, London. Solo show
1996 The Photographers Gallery, London. Group show
1996 Instituto Europeo del Design, Milan. Group show
1996 The Back Hill Gallery, Clerkenwell. London. Solo show.
Selected Awards / Publications / Reviews / Talks
2019 Kaunas Pilnas Kulturos - interview (radio and print)
2019 Holland America ship Guest lecturer, Japan.
2018 The Wiener library for Holocaust and Genocide research - talk
2017 The Army and Navy Club, London - talk
2016 Natural History Museum - talk
2016 Radio Resonance conversation
2016 Digital camera Magazine
2016 Professional Photography Magazine
2015 Source
2015 The Telegraph
2015 The Times
2015 The Daily Mail
2015 Wired
2015 Colin Pantall book review
2015 Dezeen
2014 Vice
2014 The Daily Mail
2014 Grafik
2014 Architects Journal
2014 Raw View Magazine
2014 Design Observer / Places Journal
2014 The Guardian Online
2104 Radio 2 talk show - Jeremy Vine
2014 BBC In Pictures
2014 Culture 24
2014 Photoforum - talk
2012 Wayne Ford The Last Stand
2013 Terry O'Neil Award
2013 Photomonitor The Last Stand
2012 aCurator magazine
2006 PDN Photo Annual
2000 Published in British Journal of Photography
1995 Published in British Journal of Photography
About the project :
Photographed between 2010 and 2014, The Last Stand aims to reflect the histories and stories military conflict and the memories held in the landscape itself. The series is made up of 86 images and is documents some of the physical remnants of the Second World War on the coastlines of the British Isles and Northern Europe, focusing on military defence structures that remain and their place in the shifting landscape that surrounds them. Many of these locations are no longer in sight, either subsumed or submerged by the changing sands and waters or by more human intervention. At the same time others have re-emerged from their shrouds. Over the four years 23,000 miles were travelled to 143 locations to capture these images along the coastlines of the UK, The Channel Islands, Northern & Western France, Denmark, Belgium and Norway.
seren serenity calm meditative reflection meditation calmness sea ocean mist...
Category
2010s Modern Marc Wilson Art
Materials
C Print, Color
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