The Transmittance Of Pity Falsely Perceived As Love Through A One-Way Mirror

By Mark Sheeky

£8,000.00

Oil and white gold leaf on MDF panel

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Most of my ideas appear in an instant ‘flash’; a clear image of the final painting, which I hurry to scribble down. I then spend a huge amount of work trying to match this image and feeling, always focused on the initial orb-of-thought and feeling that was that idea. Perhaps most artworks are made this way. I spend so much time wrestling with the result, bending it towards that initial idea. The initial flash for this idea, I can clearly say, appeared during a TV debate involving politicians David Cameron and Nick Clegg; then rivals, and soon to be part of the coalition government.

The painting is about changing views of masculinity. Attitudes to gender have changed radically in the last decade, and this painting glimpsed or even presaged this revolution. The painting is full of gender symbols: the moon, the horn, the rose, the V-shape.

On a technical level, making this painting involved creating a computer model of an artificial room. This adds a level of detachment and unreality; an important (but not consciously intentional) part of the painting. Like any artwork, the only way to know its unique feeling and idea is by experiencing the art itself. I, as the artist, am subservient to this feeling. I add something here, something there, to evoke a feeling that can’t be put into words, but this description at least gives a guide to my ideas and aims.

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Weight 6.5 kg
Dimensions 735 × 65 × 496 cm

Mark Sheeky

Mark Sheeky (b. 1972) is a multi-disciplinary artist and polymath from the North of England. His career began designing and developing computer games for the Amiga computer, then PC games, publishing over 50 titles by 2006.

In 2008 he became a full time artist, an oil painter in the surrealist/fantastical genre, and has one painting in the U.K. National Art Collection, and one artwork in the Nietzsche-Dokumentationszentrum, Naumberg. Art awards include The Grosvenor Museum’s 8th Open Art Award, The Barracks Trust Award, and The Jobling Gowler Art Award.

Though primarily a painter detailed oil works, his visual art oeuvre includes hundreds of watercolour and ink illustrations, digital work, paintings in acrylic, and a wide gamut of media. His painting can include sculpted frames, cabinets, or other elements of craft including plaster casting, gilding, work in clay, plastics or contemporary materials.

A meticulous record keeper; as of 2024 Sheeky has produced over 1,400 works of well documented visual art.

After early experiments in synthesizer music, Sheeky’s first music release was Arcangel in 2000, the CD soundtrack to his first Windows PC game. Second release Synaesthesia was released by REV Records in 2001. Since then, all of his music remains self-published and, perhaps uniquely, created using software of his own design. This software, Prometheus, which began development in 2001. Each algorithm, from the sample playback, to filters and reverb algorithms has been personally developed for this bespoke music workstation.

Early releases were electronic instrumental music influenced by computer game music. In 2009 he collaborated with vocalist Tor James Faulkner to produce two albums of synth-pop songs. A self-taught pianist, Sheeky began to perform in art venues from 2015, collaborating with visual artist Sabine Kussmaul and poet Tim Watson to produce the piano-based album The Anatomy of Emotions, and performing a few experimental piano sonatas in local venues. From circa 2020, Sheeky’s music became increasingly vocal orientated in the art-rock/art-pop genre.

As of 2024, Sheeky has published 70 music releases, 39 of which are original albums; 4 with Deborah Edgeley as part of contemporary lieder duo, ‘Fall in Green’.

From 2015 to 2018 Sheeky was producer and host of weekly arts radio programme ArtsLab, for community station RedShift Radio. The show’s groundbreaking format involved listeners creating new content for each episode. After leaving RedShift, the format was translated to YouTube for two years as ArtSwarm.

Published books include the novella The Many Beautiful Worlds of Death (2015), the art treatise 21st Century Surrealism (2018), and several illustrated works including a contemporary set of illustrations for William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.

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