Dates

• Existence: Born 1956

Biography

Mark A. Copeland, was born in mid-eastern Surrey district in 1956.

Mark studied at Cambridge School of Art, 1973-1974 and Canterbury College of Art 1974-1977 gaining his degree in graphic design in 1977. Apprenticed for four years to the Suffolk sound artist Tom Taylor and subsequently worked as a performance artist, illustrator and author, working as model maker and prop designer for television and film, including on productions of 'Hard Times', 'Cold Lazarus', 'The Borrowers', and 'Gormenghast'.

Mark has exhibited his works at Portal Gallery, London from 1979 with solo shows 1991-1999; Wally Findlay Galleries, New York 1983; Halesworth Gallery, Suffolk 1986 and 1988 and Heffer Gallery, Cambridge.

Mark also created the 'Insect Circus Museum', a touring work of performance art in which an antique truck is transformed into a miniature, magical world, purporting to commemorate the thre hundred year history of a traveling circus operated by the Piper family.

Mark also writes children's book 'The Bundle at Blackthorpe Heath' (2006). Mark married his second wife, Sarah E. Munro in 1995, with whom he has created many artistic collaborations from their home at Bury St Edmund's, Suffolk.