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Artist: Mark Wallinger
Title: Proteus Series
Medium: Framed Giclee Prints
Size: 68.5 x 93 cm Each
Edition: 25 Each
Prices: $1,750 Each

 

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Mark Wallinger 'Proteus XVIII' Print Available

Artist: Mark Wallinger
Title: Proteus XVIII
Medium: Framed Giclee Print
Size: 68.5 x 93 cm
Edition: 25
Price: $1,750

 

Mark Wallinger 'Proteus XIV' Print Available

Artist: Mark Wallinger
Title: Proteus XIV
Medium: Framed Giclee Print
Size: 68.5 x 93 cm
Edition: 25
Price: $1,750

  

Mark Wallinger 'Proteus IX' Print Available

Artist: Mark Wallinger
Title: Proteus IX
Medium: Framed Giclee Print
Size: 68.5 x 93 cm
Edition: 25
Price: $1,750

 

Mark Wallinger 'Proteus VI' Print Available

Artist: Mark Wallinger
Title: Proteus VI
Medium: Framed Giclee Print
Size: 68.5 x 93 cm
Edition: 25
Price: $1,750

  

Mark Wallinger is a British contemporary artist born in 1959 in Chigwell, Essex, celebrated for works that probe identity, nationhood and belief through poetic wit and conceptual rigour. After studying at the Chelsea School of Art and Goldsmiths, he first gained notice in the 1980s with paintings that inserted humble racehorses into Old Master compositions, questioning ideas of value, lineage and spectacle. This fascination with overlooked symbols continued in A Real Work of Art (1994), for which he bought and raced a horse named after the piece, blurring the boundary between artwork and living creature.

In 2007 Wallinger won the Turner Prize for State Britain, a meticulous recreation of Brian Haw’s protest camp outside Parliament, complete with banners, banners and slogans. Installed in Tate Britain, the work transformed a site of dissent into a haunting monument to free speech and civil liberty. Equally powerful is Ecce Homo (1999), a marble resin figure of Christ placed on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, its diminutive scale and exposed vulnerability confronting imperial grandeur and inviting reflection on power, compassion and public space.

Religious and philosophical inquiry runs throughout his practice. Labyrinth (2013) comprises 270 enamel plaques installed across the London Underground, each bearing a red maze that invites contemplation amid commuter rush. The World Turned Upside Down (2019) presents a giant globe with the South Pole at the top, challenging viewers to reconsider familiar perspectives and the constructs that govern perception.

Wallinger works across media, from film and sculpture to installation and text, always seeking the poetic moment when concept and material align. Whether filming himself walking a white line through Jerusalem or casting his own shadow in bronze, he invites viewers to question certainties and to recognise the complex, often contradictory forces that shape contemporary life.