Marcus Oakley
London based illustrator/artist
I'm orginally from Acle a village in Norfolk, my work as an artist has many influence's including my childhood in Norfolk, the wonderful harmonic and melodic music of the Beach Boys, the pastoral delights of the countryside and the friendly animals that inhabit it.
Over the last few years my work has been related to the 1970's. I guess I am looking back at things I can remember and the innocence of it all. My interest is also in things that I didn't really know about at the time or was too young to appreciate, such as Fleetwood Mac's 1977 album 'Rumours' or in general the aesthetic beauty of the decades architecture, fashion, graphics and typography.
Since 2003 inspired by somehow turning my artwork into sound I have been making music under The Sunflower Band.
http://www.myspace.com/thesunflowerband
I am represented in Japan by CWC and in the United States by CWC-i.
Exhibitions
2008 (solo) 'The Idea of Something' Nog Gallery, London
2008 (solo) 'Flotsam & Jetsam' Gallery Lele, Tokyo
2008 'Lucky Seven' Lucy Gallery, Antwerp
2007 'Post-Wood' Monster Children Gallery, Sydney
2007 'Take to the Woods' Analogue Gallery, Edinburgh
2007 'The Kindness of Strangers' The Helm Gallery, Tacoma
2007 (solo) 'Flotsom & Jetsam' The Old Shoreditch Station, London
2007 'The Cherryvale Skateboard Art Exhibition' The Gallery, London
2007 'Pleasures & Days', The LAB, Dublin
2007 'Nieves Zines 2004 - 2007', A&M Bookstore, Milan
2007 'Ozymandias Melancholia' Fleapit Gallery, London
2007 (solo) 'That & This' Analogue Gallery, Edinburgh
2007 'The Cherryvale Skateboard Art Exhibition' Leatherock Hotel, Cherryvale, Kansas
2007 'My 2007' Colette, Paris
2006 'Sixteen x Twelve' Monster Children Gallery, Sydney
2006 'Hanahou Prensents' Gallery Hanahou, NYC
2006 'Shibboleth' Dilston Grove Gallery, London
2006 'The Blank Tape Spillage Fete' English Folk Dance & Song Society, London
2006 (solo) 'Home Time' Go Gallery, Milan
2005 'Acid Drops & Sugar Candy' Transition, London
2005 'Exhibit B' Pearlfisher Gallery, London
2005 'Improved: The Postcard Project' Foster Art, London
2005 'The Banjo Artshow' 88B Gallery, London
2004 'Moving Units' Moving Units Gallery, London
2004 'Flip The Script' Desiel Gallery, NYC
2003 'Everywhere From Here' The Workroom, Dublin
2003 'Fanclub' Rosy Wilde Gallery, London
2003 'Where is Silas' Parco Museum,Tokyo
2003 'Arty - tecture' Transition Gallery, London
2003 'A Surface in Between', Arthouse, London
2003 'Scritch Scratch' Transition Gallery, London
2002 (solo) 'Wouldn't it be Nice' 88B Gallery, London
2002 'Funny but Cute' CWC Gallery, Tokyo
2002 (solo) 'Drawing is Fun' Zakka, NYC
2001 'The Side Effects of Urethane' The Jam Factory, London
Selected Publications
2008 'The Idea of Something' Izrock Pressings
2008 'Totally Rad zine' Published by Something Secret
2008 'Illusive2: contemporary illustration and its context’ Die Gestalten Verlag Gmbh & Co
2007 'Badge/Button/Pin' Laurence King Publishing
2007 Arkitip Magazine, Colette 10 Year Anniversary Issue
2006 'Pictoplasma/The Character Encyclopaedia' Pictoplasma Publishing
2006 'Tatto Icons' Viction:ary
2006 The Illustrated Ape ' The 1976 Issue'
2006 'The Blank Tape Spillage Fete’ Pointer Publishing
2005 'The Side Effects of Urethane’ Pointer Publishing
2005 'Illustration A La Mode’ CWC Books
2005 'Illusive: contemporary illustration and its context’ Die Gestalten Verlag Gmbh & Co
2005 'God Only Knows' NievesBooks
2004 The Illustrated Ape ' The Japanese Cult Issue'
2004 'Arty Greatest Hits' Transition Editions
2003 'Where is Silas?' laurence king publishing ltd
2003 The Illustrated Ape ' The A-Z issue'
Illustration clients have included
Pointer Footwear, Howies, Channel 4, Levis, GQ Style, The Idler, Time Out, Silas, Slam City Skates, Paul Smith Ltd, Citroen, Plan B Magazine, 679 recordings. The Guardian Guide.
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