Mark Leckey

Mark Leckey (born 1964) is a British contemporary artist, working with collage art, music and video.

Quotes

• I just...the world just...it's just different. It changes every day.
  • "Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore" (1999)
• Things that appear as images or pictures, but that somehow impose on me a sense of their actual weight, density and volume, of their physical being in the world. This sensation is then even further enhanced when a picture starts to move; when it comes to life.
  • "Cinema-in-the-Round" (2007)
• I am an autodidact - that's why I use bigger words than I should. It's a classic sign.
  • Guardian interview (2008)
• See, we assemble. Samsung, Viking, Gaggenau, and Whirlpool. Here, here. Here, we exist. In the streets. And houses, in cars, and fields. As ever-present as sunshine.
  • "GreenScreenRefrigeratorAction" (2010)
• This is a proposal for a show, in which I imagine a Newly Born Limb, the Ghost of A Flea, and an Endless Note Petrified in Stone. I picture two prosthetic arms, one ancient, one modern, reaching out as far as they can, to grasp all that there is in the world.
  • "Prop4aShw" (2013)

Quotes about Leckey

• This is the state that Leckey aspires to attain as an artist: a hyper-sensitized negation of the self, achievable through technology, which would connect him to a space that is profoundly open and potentially infinite. Power ON.
  • "A Thing For Things", frieze, 2013