Structure

Mark Prier presents his newest sculpture at the Brucebo Stipendiegård in Själsö, Sweden, on the island of Gotland.

Friday, August 15, 2008
Structure at the Brucebo in Sweden

Mark Prier

On Monday, August 18th, Mark Prier presents his newest sculpture at the Brucebo Stipendiegård in Själsö, Sweden, on the island of Gotland. Created while living in Själsö as the 2008 artist-in-residence for the Brucebo Foundation, Structure represents much of Prier’s work during June and July.

Structure will be available to view 24 hours a day from August 18th to August 25th at the Brucebo Stipendiegård on Själsöväg, near the Brucebo Nature Reserve but before Själsö hamn. The sculpture is visible from the road.

Mark Prier’s multimedia work deals with themes of wilderness, mapping, and rural survival. His work takes the vernacular of survival as its starting point for abstraction, teasing form from sources as diverse as lean-tos, hunting blinds, camping shelters, and farm maintenance. He has presented performances as a part of Lost O (Ashford, Kent, UK) and Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area (Kitchener, Canada), and exhibitions at Red Head Gallery, Toronto Free Gallery (Toronto, Canada), White Water Gallery (North Bay, Canada), City Without Walls (Newark, USA), and Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre (Kingston, Canada). He has also taken part in screenings at nextfest (Edmonton, Canada), and Images Festival (Toronto, Canada). Prier is a graduate of the Visual Studies program at the University of Toronto.