Mark Lloyd

Philosophy, science and science fiction are all key ideologies that underpin the work of artist Mark Lloyd, whose paintings cast a gaze at ideas of consumption, the search for God, dystopia, evolution and human advancement in the age of technology.

Lloyd's works are as richly layered as his influences, synthesizing the past and future by combining Renaissance compositional theory and established oil painting methods with modern practices such as printmaking, collage and digital technology; repeating, remixing, editing and layering to create a diversity of forms from a selected principle.

Recent works have seen Lloyd re-interpret the Hindu practice of 'Antiyesti'; informed by the notion of the loss of the soul from art, the process sees Lloyd burning objects, artworks or prints of art, turning the ash into paint pigment with which he creates new paintings, thus reintroducing the aura.