Mark Leckey
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Mark Leckey (born 1964) is a British artist, predominantly working in the field of video. He is a nominee for the 2008 Turner Prize.
His video work has as its subject the "tawdry but somehow romantic elegance of certain aspects of British culture."[1] Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (1999) is a video essay, made from found footage, about British youth dance subcultures.[2] His 2005 DVD installation Drunken Bakers, based on the Drunken Bakers characters from the Viz comic, is about drinking culture in the North of England.[3]
He exhibited alongside Damien Hirst in the 1990 New Contemporaries exhibition at the ICA but afterwards dropped from view, before making a "comeback" with Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore in 1999.[2]
In 2004 he participated in Manifesta 5, The European Biennial of Contemporary Art [4]. In 2006 he participated in the Tate Triennial[5] and his works are held in the collections of the Tate[6] and the Centre Pompidou.[7]
