MARK WALLINGER

The consistently original painter, sculptor and video artist Mark Wallinger has created some of the most subtly intelligent and irre verent work from the UK in the last twenty-five years. Studying in London at the Chelsea School of Art (1978 - 81) and Goldsmiths Co llege (1983 - 5), his early work questioned the traditions and values of British society and its class system, best represented by h is employment of images of racehorses. Painted in a photo-realist style, these works explored issues of ownership, inheritance and p edigree,...[Read more]