Marc Atkins
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Marc Atkins is an English artist, photographer, filmmaker and poet, born in London, England in 1962, best known for his photography of cities and nudes, also commecially for music album and book covers.
, Netherlands (in performance, video, film and photography). After spending the subsequent year in Rome, he returned to London.
His next move was to Canada where, he became Assistant Professor at the University of Windsor, Ontario, during which time he travelled across North America. Since then, Atkins has lived and worked in London, but has also spent extended periods of time in Rome, New York, Warsaw
and Paris. He now lives in London,UK.
Atkins has presented his work and ideas on the image at lectures and conferences at venues such as the Royal Academy
, London, UEL School of Architecture, London, Royal College of Art
, London, Instytut Mikołowski, Poland, the New York School in Paris, The Photographers' Gallery, London and Université de Liège, Belgium.
Atkins' work is exhibited regularly, and has been published and reviewed in magazines and newspapers worldwide, including V & A Magazine, Le Passant Ordinaire, Frieze, Negronia, Dwukropek, Performance Research, Porzucone twarze, Fotographia, and Hotshoe International.
As a commercial photographer his work has been published in numerous books, and has produced images for many CD covers, including David Lynch
('Good Day Today' and 'I know'), The Breeders
, TV on the Radio
, Scott Walker
and Jah Wobble
, and also for over one hundred book-jackets, including Arthur Miller
, Anaïs Nin
, Joseph Conrad
, Georges Bataille
, R. L. Stevenson, Peter Ackroyd
, D. H. Lawrence
, A. L. Kennedy
and Iain Sinclair
. He has completed several video commissions, including music videos and short films on Byam Shaw School of Art and Central Saint Martins School of Art. His work is in many public and private collections, including the National Portrait Gallery.
Background
Atkins attended Staffordshire College of Art and Design, gaining a Distinction; Cheltenham School of Art, receiving a First Class Honors Degree (in sculpture), followed by Postgraduate Studies at the Jan Van Eyck AcademieJan Van Eyck Academie
The Jan van Eyck Academie is a post-academic institute for research and production in the fields of fine art, design and theory, based in Maastricht in the south of The Netherlands. The academy offers individuals and institutes the opportunity to submit research or production proposals.-1947–1948:...
, Netherlands (in performance, video, film and photography). After spending the subsequent year in Rome, he returned to London.
His next move was to Canada where, he became Assistant Professor at the University of Windsor, Ontario, during which time he travelled across North America. Since then, Atkins has lived and worked in London, but has also spent extended periods of time in Rome, New York, Warsaw
Warsaw
Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...
and Paris. He now lives in London,UK.
Atkins has presented his work and ideas on the image at lectures and conferences at venues such as the Royal Academy
Royal Academy
The Royal Academy of Arts is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly, London. The Royal Academy of Arts has a unique position in being an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects whose purpose is to promote the creation, enjoyment and...
, London, UEL School of Architecture, London, Royal College of Art
Royal College of Art
The Royal College of Art is an art school located in London, United Kingdom. It is the world’s only wholly postgraduate university of art and design, offering the degrees of Master of Arts , Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy...
, London, Instytut Mikołowski, Poland, the New York School in Paris, The Photographers' Gallery, London and Université de Liège, Belgium.
Atkins' work is exhibited regularly, and has been published and reviewed in magazines and newspapers worldwide, including V & A Magazine, Le Passant Ordinaire, Frieze, Negronia, Dwukropek, Performance Research, Porzucone twarze, Fotographia, and Hotshoe International.
As a commercial photographer his work has been published in numerous books, and has produced images for many CD covers, including David Lynch
David Lynch
David Keith Lynch is an American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor. Known for his surrealist films, he has developed his own unique cinematic style, which has been dubbed "Lynchian", and which is characterized by its dream imagery and meticulous sound...
('Good Day Today' and 'I know'), The Breeders
The Breeders
The Breeders are an American alternative rock band formed in 1988 by Kim Deal of the Pixies and Tanya Donelly of Throwing Muses. The band has experienced a number of line-up changes; the current line-up consists of Kim Deal , her twin sister Kelley Deal , Jose Medeles , Mando Lopez Todd the Fox...
, TV on the Radio
TV on the Radio
TV on the Radio is an American art rock band formed in 2001 in Brooklyn, New York, whose music spans numerous diverse genres, from post-punk to electro and free jazz to soul music....
, Scott Walker
Scott Walker (singer)
Scott Walker, born Noel Scott Engel on January 9, 1943 is an American singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, and the former lead singer of The Walker Brothers. Despite being American born, Walker's chart success has largely come in the United Kingdom, where his first four solo albums...
and Jah Wobble
Jah Wobble
Jah Wobble is an English bass guitarist, singer, poet and composer. He became known to a wider audience as the original bass player in Public Image Ltd in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but left the band after two albums...
, and also for over one hundred book-jackets, including Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller
Arthur Asher Miller was an American playwright and essayist. He was a prominent figure in American theatre, writing dramas that include plays such as All My Sons , Death of a Salesman , The Crucible , and A View from the Bridge .Miller was often in the public eye,...
, Anaïs Nin
Anaïs Nin
Anaïs Nin was a French-Cuban author, based at first in France and later in the United States, who published her journals, which span more than 60 years, beginning when she was 11 years old and ending shortly before her death, her erotic literature, and short stories...
, Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-born English novelist.Conrad is regarded as one of the great novelists in English, although he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties...
, Georges Bataille
Georges Bataille
Georges Bataille was a French writer. His multifaceted work is linked to the domains of literature, anthropology, philosophy, economy, sociology and history of art...
, R. L. Stevenson, Peter Ackroyd
Peter Ackroyd
Peter Ackroyd CBE is an English biographer, novelist and critic with a particular interest in the history and culture of London. For his novels about English history and culture and his biographies of, among others, Charles Dickens, T. S. Eliot and Sir Thomas More he won the Somerset Maugham Award...
, D. H. Lawrence
D. H. Lawrence
David Herbert Richards Lawrence was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter who published as D. H. Lawrence. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation...
, A. L. Kennedy
A. L. Kennedy
Alison Louise Kennedy is a Scottish writer of novels, short stories and non-fiction. She is known for a characteristically dark tone, a blending of realism and fantasy, and for her serious approach to her work...
and Iain Sinclair
Iain Sinclair
Iain Sinclair FRSL is a British writer and filmmaker. Much of his work is rooted in London, most recently within the influences of psychogeography.-Life and work:...
. He has completed several video commissions, including music videos and short films on Byam Shaw School of Art and Central Saint Martins School of Art. His work is in many public and private collections, including the National Portrait Gallery.