Marc Hulson

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Interim Course Leader, MA Fine Art

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Central Saint Martins

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Teacher

Biography

Marc Hulson is a London-based artist working primarily with the media of painting and drawing.

His research and pictorial practice explore the fantastic as both a popular narrative mode and a conceptual space operating within the history of ideas. He draws, in particular, on supernatural fiction and corresponding strands in psychology, philosophy, literary theory, and esoteric thought. His imagery connects figurative painting and physical theatre, employing the figure as both affective vehicle and formal symbolic motif, while reflecting on bodily experience, gender and sexuality through themes of transformation, disguise, and ontological indeterminacy.

He is interested in dialogues between media and has also worked collaboratively on numerous exhibition projects exploring the overlapping dynamics of moving image, sound, installation, writing and performance, including the Arts Council England funded project ‘Bubblegum’s Funeral’ with the experimental writer Paul Curran. Other collaborations, such as ‘Metahorror’ (with Kristaps Ancans) and ‘Luxury Complex’ (with Lisa Craddick, Dean Kenning and Andy Sharp) play with slippages between genre conventions and conceptual or formal experimentation. He is an active contributor to the programme at the artists’ co-operative association and project-space Five Years, which he co-founded in 1998.

His work has been exhibited widely at public, private and independent galleries including the exhibitions ‘We Lived Happily During the War’ (Cross Lane Projects, London 2023), ’The Inbetween’ (The Bomb Factory, London 2022), ‘Bad Ideas’ (Tallin Art Hall, Estonia 2022), ‘Saturn’ (Transition 2, London 2019), ‘The Yellow Sleep’ (Kunstverein Heppenheim, Germany 2014), and the national touring exhibition ‘3:AM’ (The Bluecoat, Liverpool 2013-14).

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