Hirst's auction does not demean the art world Sep 11, 2008
There are too many sharks and the unicorns look a bit like ripoffs of Mark Wallinger, who Hirst once beat to the Turner Prize. But there is also the zebra, a truly strange and eerie curio. (guardian.co.uk)
The Fourth Plinth: could you be art? Jun 24, 2008
When Mark Wallinger unveiled Ecce Homo, his life-size sculpture of Christ cast from the body of a former art student, on the empty Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square in 1999, Antony Gormley must have had a fit. Over the past three decades, Gormley has made his name by obsessively casting his own body and exhibiting the results. (Telegraph.co.uk)
Folkestone Triennial Jun 20, 2008
Mark Wallinger has lain out a square of numbered beach pebbles on the grassy clifftop, one for each life lost on the first day of battle on the Somme. Close to a number of public benches facing Boulogne and the distant French hills, Christian Boltanski broadcasts readings of letters exchanged between lovers on the brink of war, and from a soldier longing for his family - all donated by local families. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Tree installation honours Darwin Jun 17, 2008
The work, by Tania Kovats, was selected by judges over proposals by Turner Prize winners such as Mark Wallinger. The 17 metre-long permanent installation is cut lengthways to include the roots, trunk and branches. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
A quirky festival of art inspired by ... Folkestone Jun 14, 2008
Twenty-two artists are taking part in the Triennial, including Mark Wallinger, Christian Boltanski, Tracey Emin and Jeremy Deller. Their works are sited, indoors and out, along a few miles on the coastal side of town. (Independent)
Emin leaves trail of baby clothes through Folkestone as Britart comes to seaside Jun 14, 2008
In total 22 artists including Emin, Mark Wallinger, Jeremy Deller and Nathan Coley have come up with public art that will be spread across a town which has long said goodbye to its glamorous heyday and feels faded. Emin, like all the artists, had been invited to Folkestone to get inspiration for their work. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Tracey Emin unveils bronze baby clothes artwork Jun 14, 2008
Other artists with work on show include Turner Prize winner Mark Wallinger, who has numbered 19,240 pebbles to represent each British death on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. Many of the soldiers left for France from Folkestone. (BBC News -- UK)
Turner Prize shortlist revealed May 13, 2008
Last year Mark Wallinger, the artist whose work includes dressing up as a bear, took the prize for his replica of Brian Haw's anti-war protest in Parliament Square. Bookmark with. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
The artist gets back in the saddle May 11, 2008
The Turner Prize-winner Mark Wallinger has never been afraid of courting criticism ... If Mark Wallinger triumphs in the competition to build the 2m public work of art already dubbed the 'Angel of the South' - the winner is revealed in September - anyone entering Britain on a Eurostar train will, in the future, be greeted by an enormous white stallion, 164ft high ... Mark Wallinger was born in Chigwell, Essex, in 1959 into a house in which enthusiasm for the arts was encouraged. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
What is it with Britain and gigantic art? May 10, 2008
Mark Wallinger has proposed a , Rachel Whiteread wants a on top of a mountain of recycled rubble, Christopher Le Brun has suggested a white concrete , Richard Deacon has proposed a "nest" of 26 steel polyhedrons, and Daniel Buren wants a tower of cubes with a laser beam. Take a look at the designs. (ABC Online)
Giant horse leads race for 'angel of the South' May 8, 2008
Mark Wallinger with his giant horse design ... The horse sculpture has been put forward by Mark Wallinger, last year's Turner Prize winner. (Telegraph.co.uk)
Ebbsfleet Landmark proposals revealed May 8, 2008
Mark Wallinger, who won last year's Turner prize with a painstaking reproduction of a protest against the Iraq war, is one of five artists who were asked to come up with a proposal for the 2m commission. Two other Turner prize winners are also competing: Richard Deacon, who took the prize in 1989, and Rachel Whiteread, whose work famously included a concrete cast of the inside of an entire Victorian terraced house. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Plan for Britain's biggest sculpture May 8, 2008
Mark Wallinger's shortlisted proposal for the Ebbsfleet Landmark ... The artists are Mark Wallinger, who came up with the giant horse; Rachel Whiteread, who proposes a cast house atop a mountain of recycled rubble; Richard Deacon; Christopher Le Brun, who proposes a wing and disc; and Daniel Buren. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Can you do me a quick cow's head? Mar 5, 2008
From Damien Hirst to Mark Wallinger, many major artists now rely on legions of helpers ... He admits that, over the years, some of his clients - Rachel Whiteread, Gary Hume, Gavin Turk, Keith Tyson, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Mark Wallinger - have been sensitive about publicising the fact that he makes works for them. (Guardian Unlimited)
UK TV awards honour Rowling Jan 31, 2008
Artist Andy Goldsworthy beat Turner Prize winner Mark Wallinger in the visual arts category for his work at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Poet Daljit Nagra won the Arts Council England Decibel award for his debut collection, entitled Look We Have Coming to Dover. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
An artist's film, and for once it's not dross Jan 18, 2008
In recent years any number of established artists have either turned their attention to film or made it the heart of their practice: Tracey Emin with Top Spot; Sam Taylor-Wood, who even made a promo for Elton John; Mark Wallinger; Damien Hirst, with works ranging from an adaptation of Samuel Beckett's shortest (less than a minute) play Breath, to a Benny Hill-style video for Blur's Country House. Ah, interrupts the cynic: these things may be art, but are they cinema. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Minimalist artist pioneers Tate Britain's annual commission Jan 15, 2008
Last year Mark Wallinger installed his headline-grabbing State Britain, a re-creation of Brian Haw's protest camp outside the houses of parliament, which helped the artist win last year's Turner prize. Tate Britain director Stephen Deuchar hailed Creed as an artist who questions whether there is a need for art and what impact it can have on people's lives. (Guardian Unlimited)
Changes at British Council 'appalling' Jan 12, 2008
The signatories also include artists Sir Peter Blake, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Gilbert and George, Antony Gormley, Damien Hirst, Howard Hodgkin, Anish Kapoor, Sam Taylor-Wood, Gavin Turk and Mark Wallinger. The leaders of some of Britain's most important galleries have also signed, including the Tate's Sir Nicholas Serota, Stephen Deuchar of Tate Britain, and Sir Norman Rosenthal and Charles Saumarez Smith of the Royal Academy. (Guardian Unlimited)
Letter: Dismay at British Council art cuts Jan 12, 2008
Anthony Abrahams, Shazeela Alim, Sam Bakkabulindi, Dr Wendy Baron OBE, Emmanuel Basaza, Lewis Biggs Director, Liverpool Biennial, Sir Peter Blake, Quentin Blake, Iwona Blazwick Director, Whitechapel Art Gallery, OBE, Lord Melvyn Bragg of Wigton, Ralph Brown, Jon Buck, Louisa Buck The Art Newspaper, Anthony Bukenya, David Bwambale, Richard Calvocoressi Director, Henry Moore Foundation, Jeffrey Camp RA, Sir Anthony Caro OM CBE, Eva Chadwick, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Sarah Jane Checkland, Emma... (Guardian Unlimited)
Comment: Adrian Searle Jan 9, 2008
Gormley's One and Other, a nicely awkward and impractical scheme, also makes us think of Ecce Homo, the life-cast Christ figure Mark Wallinger stood on the plinth to great effect in 1999. Tracey Emin's sculpted meerkats, peering about from the plinth, is a banal idea unworthy of the artist. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
2007 in the arts Dec 29, 2007
Speaking of prizes, Mark Wallinger won the Turner, and for once everyone was happy: a respected artist who made the most affecting and serious installation of the year, State Britain, a lovingly accurate reconstruction of Brian Haw's peace camp in Parliament Square. Elsewhere in the art world, everyone waited for overblown prices to deflate after the financial markets sagged in the United States, but for now, at least, they cling on. (Guardian Unlimited)
The winner takes it all in Turner show Dec 7, 2007
ON MONDAY night, Mark Wallinger and his bear suit joined the ranks of Turner Prize alumni, alongside Damien Hirst's pickled animals, Martin Creed's light bulb and Simon Starling's ShedBoatShed. The 2007 show has decamped to Tate Liverpool, but the others can all be seen at Tate Britain, which is housing a retrospective of the past 23 years. (Scotsman)
Fur flies as bear suit artist wins the Turner Dec 5, 2007
Fundamental truths a woman looks at Mark Wallinger's installation State Britain , a re-creation of an anti-war protest in Parliament Square, London ... It was the man in the bear suit who won it: Mark Wallinger, 48, has been awarded this year's Turner Prize, 12 years after his first nomination, when he lost to Damien Hirst ... To watch a video of Mark Wallinger discussing State Britain go to. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Sperm donor 'was happy to be a father' Dec 5, 2007
Sperm donor 'was happy to be a father' - Telegraph. Sperm donor 'was happy to be a father. (Telegraph.co.uk)
Infotainment Dec 5, 2007
Mark Wallinger, 48, from Chigwell in Essex, produced a video of himself walking around an art gallery after hours in a bear costume. He won the Turner for another work, State Britain, a meticulous re-creation. (Daily Times, Pakistan)
Unbearable: bear suit artist wins Turner prize Dec 4, 2007
British artist Mark Wallinger stands in front of his artwork Sleeper after winning the 2007 Turner Prize ... British artist Mark Wallinger today won the Turner Prize, one of the art world's most controversial awards, for a film of him parading round a Berlin gallery at night dressed as a bear. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
The bear manHow Mark Wallinger became winner of the Turner Prize Dec 4, 2007
Profile: Artist Mark Wallinger. Mark Wallinger has represented Britain at the Venice Biennale ... Mark Wallinger, winner of 2007's Turner Prize, first made the shortlist for the coveted award in 1995, but lost out to Damien Hirst. (BBC News -- UK)
Mark Wallinger wins Turner Prize Dec 4, 2007
Mark Wallinger was first nominated for the Turner Prize 12 years ago. Mark Wallinger has been named the winner of the Turner Prize for his replica of the one-man anti-war protest in Parliament Square, State Britain ... Dennis Hopper presented the award to Mark Wallinger. (BBC News -- UK)
Donor row twist hits front pages Dec 4, 2007
Several papers mull over the result of this year's Turner Prize, awarded to Mark Wallinger for his replica of an anti-war protest in Parliament Square. The Guardian is full of praise, describing State Britain as "accessible, funny, and serious". (BBC News -- UK)
Success of abstinence in cutting teen pregnancies is a 'myth' Dec 4, 2007
Success of abstinence in cutting teen pregnancies is a 'myth. By Sarah WomackLast Updated: 1:48am GMT 02/12/2006. (Yahoo News -- Birth Control)
In pictures: Turner Prize show Dec 4, 2007
This is Mark Wallinger's Sleeper - a recording of 10 nights he spent alone in Berlin's Neue Nationalgalerie dressed in a bear suit. Mark Wallinger is being tipped as a favourite to win. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
'I aborted my girl'A mother on why she went to India to abort her unborn daughter Dec 4, 2007
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Mark Wallinger Wins Britain's Turner Prize After Bear-Suit Film, Iraq Demo Dec 4, 2007
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Mark Wallinger won Britain's 2007 Turner Prize for art at a ceremony in Liverpool. Wallinger, 48, was honored for his best-known work ``State Britain,'' a reconstruction of peace campaigner Brian Haw's anti- Iraq-war protest in London's Parliament Square. (Bloomberg -- UK)
The generation of 'damaged' girls Dec 4, 2007
By Sarah Womack, Social Affairs CorrespondentLast Updated: 1:49am GMT 21/02/2007. A generation of very young girls is being psychologically damaged by inappropriate "sexy" clothing, toys and images in the media that are corrupting childhood, leading psychologists warn today. (Yahoo News -- Sex & Sexuality)
Disney sets out to make 'The Passion for kids' Dec 4, 2007
Disney sets out to make 'The Passion for kids. By Chris Hastings and Charles Laurence in New YorkLast Updated: 11:34pm GMT 05/03/2005. (Yahoo News -- 'The Passion of the Christ')
"Bear man" wins Turner Prize Dec 4, 2007
British artist Mark Wallinger stands in front of his artwork "Sleeper" after winning the 2007 Turner Prize at the Tate Liverpool gallery in Liverpool, northern England Dec. 3, 2007 ... BEIJING, Dec. 4 (Xinhuanet) -- Mark Wallinger won Britain's 2007 Turner Prize for art at a ceremony in Liverpool on Monday ... British artist Mark Wallinger (L) stands with U.S. actor Dennis Hopper after his piece "Sleeper" won the 2007 Turner Prize at the Tate Liverpool gallery in Liverpool, northern England Dec.... (Xinhuanet, China)
Wallinger takes Turner prize Dec 4, 2007
still from Sleeper by Mark Wallinger ... It was the man in the bearsuit who won it: Mark Wallinger, 48, was awarded the Turner prize last night, 12 years after he was first nominated but lost to Damien Hirst. (Guardian Unlimited)
Adrian Searle: Accessible, funny, and serious Dec 4, 2007
Mark Wallinger has rightly won the 2007 Turner prize, even though he showed his three-year old film, Sleeper, in Liverpool rather than new work ... About Mark Wallinger. (Guardian Unlimited)
Hopper to hand out UK art prize Nov 27, 2007
Zarina Bhimji, Nathan Coley, Mike Nelson and Mark Wallinger are the artists shortlisted for the prize. The Turner ceremony and exhibition has moved to Liverpool for a year as a curtain-raiser for 2008's European Capital of Culture celebrations. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
'It is like a jewel' Nov 8, 2007
Well, I see some light, but it could be a train coming," he laughs.From Christ to Beckham: previous occupants of the fourth plinthThe fourth plinthArchitect Sir Charles Barry designed the fourth plinth in the north-west corner of Trafalgar Square in 1841, to carry a statue of monarch William IV. Rows over money and over which monarch or military hero should be placed there left the plinth empty until 1999, when the Royal Society of Arts began a series of commissions for works by contemporary... (Guardian Unlimited)
Turner Prize: A grisly bear but a great show Oct 23, 2007
Mark Wallinger deserves to beat his rivals for this year's Turner Prize, even though their pieces on show in Liverpool are far better than his, says Richard Dorment ... With Zarina Bhimji, Nathan Coley, Mike Nelson and Mark Wallinger all in the running, this year's list is one of the strongest for some time. (Telegraph.co.uk)
Turner prize Oct 22, 2007
Of course, Mark Wallinger's 2000 video Threshold of the Kingdom dealt with exactly this meshing of the sacred and profane, the threshold in that case being the doors of immigration control at London City Airport ... About Mark Wallinger. (Guardian Unlimited)
Turner Prize at Tate Liverpool Oct 20, 2007
Mark Wallinger, who should be the winner, certainly seems to have lost faith in the prize. He was shortlisted for his installation State Britain, which replicated the antiwar campaign of Brian Haw, who a short while previously had been evicted from his site in Parliament Square. (Times Online)
Germaine Greer Oct 8, 2007
Because it has been decided that the work of this year's Turner prize shortlist, Zarina Bhimji, Nathan Coley, Mike Nelson and Mark Wallinger, will be exhibited and judged at Tate Liverpool, the aching void left in the London artlovers' calendar is being filled with "a snapshot of British art from the past 24 years" in the shape of a show of Turner prize winners ... About Mark Wallinger. (Guardian Unlimited)
Its Turner Prize time again Sep 29, 2007
This years Turner crop Zarina Bhimji, Nathan Coley, Mike Nelson and Mark Wallinger are a fine example of panoramic potential of the ritual ... This time its Mark Wallinger ... The fourth nominee Mike Nelson has, like Mark Wallinger, been nominated twice last time was in 2001. (Financial Times)
Turner is agony or ecstasy, say prize winners Sep 8, 2007
About Mark Wallinger. About Zarina Bhimji. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
War protest artist tipped to take Turner May 9, 2007
Politics dominated the work of all four artists - Zarina Bhimji, Nathan Coley, Mike Nelson and Mark Wallinger - shortlisted for the 25,000 award. The political themes will no doubt spark debate over the controversial prize, which has seen BritArt enfant terrible Damien Hirst win in 1995 with a pickled sheep and three years later Chris Ofili pick up the award for his work made of elephant dung. (Financial Times)
Profiles: Turner Prize nominees May 9, 2007
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Campaigner Haw comes to Tate May 9, 2007
Now former Turner Prize nominee Mark Wallinger has recreated the protestor's camp, and his banners, in the Tate. The gallery falls within a 1km zone around Parliament in which unauthorised demonstrations are prohibited. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Anti-war art on Turner shortlist May 9, 2007
Mark Wallinger recreated Haw's Parliament Square protest camp for his State Britain exhibition. Other shortlisted artists this year include photographer and film-maker Zarina Bhimji and sculptor and photographer Nathan Coley. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Political works to the fore in 'strong year' for Turner prize May 9, 2007
The four artists on the shortlist are Mark Wallinger, Mike Nelson, Zarina Bhimji and Nathan Coley ... About Mark Wallinger. (Guardian Unlimited)
Iraq protest art on Turner Prize shortlist May 8, 2007
Artist Mark Wallinger beside his installation State Britain at Tate Britain ... Mark Wallinger was last shortlisted in 1995 for an exhibition inspired by his interest in horse racing ... About Mark Wallinger. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
What a wonderful world Jan 23, 2007
Sparkling rivers, rain-free skies and not a hint of smog. if only England had looked the way Canaletto painted it. (Guardian Unlimited)
Grade promises many more South Bank Shows Jan 16, 2007
The new season includes a lost WH Auden poem set to music by Benjamin Britten as well as programmes devoted to the usual eclectic range of subjects including singer Morrissey, British artist Mark Wallinger, filmmaker Tim Burton, writer Ken Follet and Welsh actor Michael Sheen. Long-standing ITV arts grandee Melvyn Bragg, the presenter and driving force behind the programme, said he hoped Mr Grade would revitalise the ailing broadcaster after controversially swapping the chairmanship of the BBC... (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Bears against bombs Jan 16, 2007
They passed a law to ban him, but they can't keep Brian Haw out of the Tate: his five-year protest against Tony Blair has been lovingly restaged by the artist Mark Wallinger ... The barricades came down yesterday morning, when the temporary walls obscuring Mark Wallinger's State Britain were finally removed. (Guardian Unlimited)
Tate's anti-war display crosses line into no-protest zone Jan 16, 2007
Lawyers for the Tate pored over the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act before artist Mark Wallinger recreated a spectacular anti-war protest from Parliament Square, filling the stately Duveen galleries which mostly lie within the exclusion zone banning such demonstrations ... State Britain by Mark Wallinger, Tate Britain until August 27, free. (Guardian Unlimited)
Art: win tickets to the Frieze Art Fair Oct 13, 2006
Watch Mark Wallinger s flies crawling up a windowpane or Suzanne B. rner s collaged scenes of mass hysteria. (TimesOnline)
Tate reveals £12m purchases Sep 19, 2006
In the same month, said Mr Deuchar, a commission from Mark Wallinger - whose sculpture Ecce Homo stood on the empty plinth in London's Trafalgar Square in 1999 - will be unveiled in the museum's Duveen gallery. "I can't reveal anything about its contents," said Mr Deuchar, "but it will be hugely newsworthy.". (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
