Marcus
Vergette

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About Marcus Vergette

Born: Carbondale, Illinois, U.S.A. 1961, British citizen
Education: Portsmouth College of Art 79; Central/St. Martins 80-83

Contact details:
Coombe Farm, Highampton, Beaworthy, Devon, EX21 5LJ, United Kingdom
email: marcus@marcusvergette.co.uk

Solo exhibition/installations/performances
Group exhibitions
Public commissions
Awards/ grants
Collections
Publications


Solo exhibition/installations/performances
06 "Bells" Burton Museum, Bideford, Devon
04 "Ring of Bells" (video installation) Spacex Gallery, Exeter
02 "Field Work" (video installation) Spacex Gallery, Exeter, Devon
02 "Country" (video installation), Exmouth Market, London
00 "Sculptures by Marcus Vergette", Burton Art Gallery and Museum, Bideford, Devon
00 "Poet, Painter, Instrumentmaker" (performance and live music) St. Michaels' Church, Chagford, Devon (including radio broadcast on BBC Southwest)
99 "Dance of the Infidel", Art Windows International, Washington D.C., U.S.A.
98 "Recent Sculptures", Martin Village Gallery, London
97 "Unique Repetitions" (performance and live music) touring 18 venues including Exeter, Dorchester, Chelmsford, London, including recording and broadcast on BBC Radio 3
96 "Marsyas" (sculpture and live music) touring 20 venues including Falmouth, Birmingham, & London, and recording C.D.
96 "Sculpture", Delfina Trust Gallery, London
95 "Transcription" The Economist Plaza, London
95 "Recent Sculpture" Standpoint Gallery, Hoxton, London
94 "Scenes of the City" (performance, live music and video) touring 27 venues including Newcastle, Chester, Southampton, and The Purcell Rooms, South Bank Centre, London

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Group exhibitions
07 New Art Centre, Roche Court, Salisbury
"Nord Art" Budelsdorf, Germany
"Time" Burghley Sculpture Garden, Lincs
Sir Harold Hillier Gardens, Hants
06 "Fold" HUB the National Centre for Craft, Design and Making
"FMD Cultural Documents" Holden Gallery, Manchester University
"With an Object in Mind". University of Leicester
05 RBS Centenary Exhibtion, University of Leicester
International Biennial Contempoary Art Medals, Siexal, Portugal
"Tower of Babel" Limehouse Arts Foundation, London
"Sculpture in the Making", Atkinson Gallery, Street, Somerset
04 "New Rural Photography", Lowry Centre, Salford Quays
03 "Sculpture", Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
02 "Thinking Big" , Peggy Guggenheim Museum, Venice, Italy
Broomhill Sculpture, Barnstaple, Devon
01 "East of Eden", Spacex Gallery, Exeter, Devon

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Public commissions
04 "My Feet In Earth" FMD commemorative Bell, Highampton, Devon
03 "Displacement" Millfield School, Street, Somerset
"Hold Me" British Art Medal Society
01 "Between the Shadow and the Light", Yerevan, Armenia
00 "There" , City Quay, St. Katherine's Dock, London
00 "Not Me Without You", Andreas Institute, Brookline, New Hampshire, U.S.A.
99 "Scissors, Paper, Stone", Andreas Institute, Brookline, New Hampshire, U.S.A.
98 "Linenfall" , St. Thomas' High school, Exeter, Devon
98 "Forgotten", Z'dar nad Sazavou, Czech Republic
97 "Bolster", Moorfields Eye Hospital, London
96 "Remnant", Exeter Synagogue, Devon

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Awards/ grants
06 Arts Council England "Time and Tide Bell"
04 Tarka Country Millennium Award "My Feet In Earth"
02 Southwest Screen, for video "Case 66"
99 South West Arts New Music Commission, for "Poet, Painter, Instrumentmaker"
96 Exeter Arts Council , for "Unique Repetitions"
94 South West Arts project award, for "Marsyas"
93 Arts Council of Great Britain interdisciplinary award, for "Scenes of the City"

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Collections
Tate Modern, Tate Britain, British Museum, Plymouth City Museum, Leicester University

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Publications
"Thinking Big, Concepts for Twenty-first Century British Sculpture" Sculpture at Goodwood, 2002
Earshot No. 4, Dec 2003
The Medal No. 44 Spring 2004
Resurgence no 227 Nov/Dec 2004
Cent Magazine Summer 2006
Proof Magazine , Autumn 2006





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