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SUMMARY:Chester Arts Centre: Chester Art Centre: The Transglobal Art of Mar
 k Wigan
DESCRIPTION:The Transglobal Art of Mark Wigan\n\n16th March to 3rd April 20
 17\nPreview Thursday 16th March 6pm to 8pm\n\nChester Art Centre 132 North
 gate Street\,Chester CH1 2HT\nhello@chesterartcentre.co.uk tel (01244) 313
 700\nwww.chesterartcentre.co.uk\n\nwww.wigansworld.com\nmarkwigan@hotmail.
 com\n\nBORN IN NANTWICH CHESHIRE MARK WIGAN HAS BECOME ONE OF THE UK'S MOS
 T INFLUENTIAL GRAPHIC ARTISTS. HE PIONEERED URBAN ART IN LONDON\, NEW YORK
  AND TOKYO IN THE 1980'S AND 90'S. HE CREATES SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HIEROGLY
 PHS FOR OUR TIME AND DRAWS INSPIRATION FROM SUB CULTURES AND STREETSTYLE F
 ROM AROUND THE WORLD.\n\nThe exhibition features videos and photography of
  live painting performances\, exhibitions and projects undertaken over the
  past 30 years in Europe\, USA and Asia and recent paintings\, sculptures\
 , merchandise and prints. The show will also showcase his latest narrative
  illustrations A Village Lads Career (the reading between the lines to be 
 left to the imagination) inspired by a seafaring ancestors nineteenth cent
 ury globetrotting journal which documents his travels from Liverpools Salt
  House docks in 1885 across the world to China\, Japan and Australia.\n\nW
 igans approach is interdisciplinary crossing fine art\, illustration and u
 rban art and his prolific output includes regular international gallery ex
 hibitions\, live painting performances\, set designs for theatre and telev
 ision productions\, animation\, textiles\, public art and musicgraphics.\n
 \n[caption id="attachment_75198" align="alignnone" width="640"] Mark Wigan
  with Keith Haring\, New York\, November 1986.[/caption]\n\nHe has lecture
 d at art schools around the world\, leading the BA (hons) and MA programme
 s in Illustration at Camberwell College of Arts and BA (hons) Graphic Desi
 gn at the University of Salford. Wigan has written six books on Illustrati
 on the Basics Illustration series and The Visual Dictionary of Illustratio
 n published by Bloomsbury.\n\nMost recently his vibrant artwork has featur
 ed on a collection of boots\, shoes\, backpacks and t shirts for Dr Marten
 s. The acclaimed DrMartens X MarkWigan Collection has been enthusiasticall
 y received all over the world. During the exhibition Wigan will be giving 
 a talk about his artwork and latest projects\, this is a good opportunity 
 to meet this Chester artist and hear about his forthcoming exhibitions at 
 The Museum of Club Culture in Hull as part of UK City of Culture 2017 and 
 Shanghai where he will be exhibiting his latest collaborative fashion proj
 ect in the summer.\n\n"If a picture tells a thousand words Wigans drawings
  are worth an entire library of professorial works on pop culture\, early 
 works from 1985 are now revealed as astonishinglyaccurate maps\, showing t
 he development of the attitudes that defined sub cultures." The Independe
 nt Newspaper\n\n"Paris had Toulouse Lautrec\, Londons got Wigan an artist
  whose poser packed drawings immortalise the murky menagerie of late nig
 ht hipsterdom" NME\n\n"His work sits at the intersections of music\, perf
 ormance\, commercial and visual culture\, something that his new collabo
 ration with Doc Martens explores further\, decorating iconic DM models wi
 th allover archive graphics from original ’80s Wigan artworks." Highsno
 biety\n\nWigans work revitalises more stoic forms of social realism with 
 a neon -bright parade of semi fictitious cult classics\, snap crackle and
  popping their way through the heated hordes of club land" The Face Magaz
 ine\n\n"Wigan is Britains foremost Pop Artist" London Weekend Television T
 he Six O'clock Show.\n\n"Wigan is the court chronicler to the transient va
 nities of our age .A typical picture depicts adherents of every cult under
  the moon jostling cheek by haircut for lebensraum in the bowels of any cl
 ub. Its anthropology a go go" The New Musical Express\n\n"A seminal figur
 e amongst the art scene of the 1980’s (Andy Warhol and Jean- Michel Basq
 uiat were acquaintances)\, Wigan’s hand painted\, busy scenes are the la
 test subcultural artwork to be tapped by the bootmaker." Clash Magazine
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