Mark Leckey
Dicecream Magazine🗿Mark Leckey (born 1964) is a British contemporary artist, working with collage art, music and video.
His art has addressed the radical effect of technology on popular culture, and given form to the transition from analog to digital culture, powerfully influencing younger generations of artists.
He likes the idea of letting "culture use you as an instrument." but adds that the pretentiousness that artists sometimes fall into is destructive to the artistic process: "What gets in the way is being too clever, or worrying about how something is going to function, or where it's going to be….
…When you start thinking of something as art, you're fucked: you're never going to advance."
He classified himself as a pop artist. His more recent work combines ancient and digital items to examine the way objects—artistic, primitive, and quotidian—“speak” to each other.
In 2008, Leckey won the Turner Prize for his exhibition “Industrial Lights and Image”.
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