This mid-career retrospective exhibition of Mark Wallinger's work is the most comprehensive to date, and brings together a selection of his work in all media from the past fifteen years. The exhibition includes work previously unseen in this country as well as a major new video installation, Cave.

Wallinger came to prominence in Britain in the 1980s and has since earned an international reputation. He was nominated for the 1995 Turner Prize and recently completed a new piece of work, Ecce Homo, for Trafalgar Square, London. Wallinger will represent Britain at the 2001 Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art .

Wallinger's practice has developed from painting in the mid-1980s, to encompass photography, video, sculpture and installation work in the 1990s. A strong element of political satire and moral commentary underlines his practice and links him to an eighteenth century tradition, exemplified by the work of Hogarth, Gillray and Rowlandson.

Cave is a FACT commission in collaboration with Tate Liverpool made possible with financial support from the Arts Council of England's National Touring Programme and North West Arts Board. For touring details, please contact FACT on 0151 709 2663 or programme@fact.co.uk

Supported by The Henry Moore Foundation

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Glossary

  • Contemporary

    Existing or coming into being at the same period; of today or of the present. The term that designates art being made today.

  • Installation

    An artwork comprised of many and various elements of miscellaneous materials (see mixed media), light and sound, which is conceived for and occupies an entire space, gallery or site. The viewer can often enter or walk around the installation. Installations may only exist as long as they are installed, but can be re-created in different sites. Installation art emerged in the 1960s out of Environmental Art (works of art which are three-dimensional environments), but it was not until the 1970s that the term came into common use and not until the late 1980s that artists started to specialise in this kind of work, creating a genre of ‘Installation Art’. The term can also be applied to the arrangement of selected art works in an exhibition.

  • Painting

    Work of art made with paint on a surface. Often the surface, also called a support, is a tightly stretched piece of canvas, paper or a wooden panel. Painting involves a wide range of techniques and materials, along with the artist's intellectual concerns effecting the content of a work.

  • Sculpture

    A three-dimensional work of art. Such works may be carved, modelled, constructed, or cast. Sculptures can also be described as assemblage, in the round, relief, and made in a huge variety of media. Contemporary practice also includes live elements, as in Gilbert & George 'Living Sculpture' as well as broadcast work, radio or sound sculpture.

  • Video

    Images recorded on videotape or on optical disc to be viewed on television screens, or projected onto screens. The medium through which these images are recorded and displayed.