Mark Croxford

Mark Croxford's work refers to the texture and vitality of the rural landscape. His wall based constructions, made mainly of found or second life materials, hint at growing up in the inner city but do not recall a specific place or time, more a displaced memory that evokes a sense of past and habitation. His use of two and a half dimensions allows the work to straddle preconceived norms, engaging his sculptures in physical space while still pointing to the metaphysical.

His constructions take as their starting point a confident handling of line, an element most commonly associated with two-dimensional work. Here the linear is made three-dimensional instead, and combined with strong colour these graphic outlines become sculptures which celebrate the interplay between colour and form. Most of the objects he makes are reliefs, which testifies to a preference for ambivalence over proscribed definitions: the painted object stands as a pragmatic equivalent for, and a challenge to, "The Painting" or "The Sculpture".

He works in Suffolk and takes part in Suffolk Open Studios. His work has been selected for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in London and for the Discerning Eye at the Mall Galleries, and he has taken part in wood carving symposiums in Estonia, at Parnu, Valga, Sagadi and Tallinn, since 1995.