Born in France in 1979, Sebastien Marciak graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels with a Masters in Printmaking in 2006. He moved to Glasgow in 2008 for a 6 months residency at the Glasgow Print Studio and has been a member since.

Sebastien’s work is based on emotional and sensory experience. Often developed on a large to very large scale, it aims to confront the spectators with a series of pieces that play on physical or emotional impact. Whether he refers to Anthropomorphic Test Devices (known as crash test dummies) or some anatomical wax model, he wants to establish a dialogue between body and object (art and science) which serves as a pretext to emphasize the individual aspect of the human body and to show its fragile condition. Taking inspiration from strong, thought-provoking images, he wants to create a dark but silent, contemplative and poetic universe.

For the passed 6 years, Sebastien has also been leading workshops based on the relation between traditional and experimental printmaking in various institutions such as the Glasgow Print Studio,  The City of Glasgow College, The DCA print Studio in Dundee and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels.

His work has been shown at the 7th International Biennial of Contemporary prints (Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Liege, Belgium) in 2009,’Le Mai de l’Estampe Contemporaine’ (La Galerie Episodique, Paris, 2009) and recently at the Whitespace gallery in Edinburgh in July 2011 for his third solo show in Scotland.

Apart printmaking which remains his favorite medium he describes himself as ‘un touche a tout’ (en francais dans le texte!) which means that he really likes to play with a lot of different medium. He essentially works in his room using a vast range of tools (guitar/pedals, sound editing software, drawing, photography, sculpture/objects) and uses the Glasgow Print Studio to finalize  the printed images.

A selection of work from the exhibition [E]MOTION held at Whitespace gallery in Edinburgh last summer will be shown at the Glasgow Print Studio in February.

For more information, please visit www.sebmk.com.

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