Marc Wilson
The Last Stand. Brean Down I, Somerset, England. 2012
2012

Name: The Last Stand. Brean Down I, Somerset, England. 2012
Brand: Marc Wilson
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The Last Stand. Brean Down I, Somerset, England. 2012 by Marc Wilson Edition of 15 only, signed by the artist. Marc Wilson Exhibitions, talks: 2019 Memory and Light festival, Kaunuas 2022, Lithuania. 2018 Permanent collection - Holocaust Exhibition & learning centre, Huddersfield. 2018 Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Group show. 2017 Oriel Colwyn gallery, Wales. Solo show. 2016 Bonhoga gallery, Shetland. Solo show. 2015 Romania photo festival 2015 Athens Photo Festival - Benaki Museum - Main exhibition 2014 Peacock Visual Arts Aberdeen. Solo show. 2013-2014 The Royal Armouries Museum Leeds. Solo show. 2013 Anise Gallery - London. Solo show. 2013 The Royal Armouries Museum Fort Nelson, Portsmouth. Solo show. 2013 The Affordable Art Fair Eyestorm New York & London 2013 Terry O'Neill Award Lucy Bell gallery, St Leonards 2013 Terry O'Neill Award The Strand gallery, London 2010 Landscape One, The Lucy Bell Gallery, Group show 2006 Association of Photographers, London. Group show. 2006 Association of Photographers, London, Sublime. Group show. 2005 New York contemporary art fair. Group show. 2005 Photo2005, Affordable art fair. Group show. 2004 Fluid gallery, Grenoble, France, Solo show. 2003 Greenpeace Save or delete exhibition, London. Group show 2002 Victoria and Albert Museum, Dislocation 2001 Art 2001, London, Group show. 2000 Focal Point gallery, Southend, Solo show 1999 Now Showing Gallery, London. Solo show 1996 The Photographers Gallery, London. Group show 1996 Instituto Europeo del Design, Milan. Group show 1996 The Back Hill Gallery, Clerkenwell. London. Solo show. Selected Awards / Publications / Reviews / Talks 2019 Kaunas Pilnas Kulturos - interview (radio and print) 2019 Holland America ship Guest lecturer, Japan. 2018 The Wiener library for Holocaust and Genocide research - talk 2017 The Army and Navy Club, London - talk 2016 Natural History Museum - talk 2016 Radio Resonance conversation 2016 Digital camera Magazine 2016 Professional Photography Magazine 2015 Source 2015 The Telegraph 2015 The Times 2015 The Daily Mail 2015 Wired 2015 Colin Pantall book review 2015 Dezeen 2014 Vice 2014 The Daily Mail 2014 Grafik 2014 Architects Journal 2014 Raw View Magazine 2014 Design Observer / Places Journal 2014 The Guardian Online 2104 Radio 2 talk show - Jeremy Vine 2014 BBC In Pictures 2014 Culture 24 2014 Photoforum - talk 2012 Wayne Ford The Last Stand 2013 Terry O'Neil Award 2013 Photomonitor The Last Stand 2012 aCurator magazine 2006 PDN Photo Annual 2000 Published in British Journal of Photography 1995 Published in British Journal of Photography Education: Ma Photography LCP (1999) Ba Photography LCP (1996) BSc Sociology Edinburgh University (1992) The Last Stand – Review by Colin Pantell, 2015. There is something quite compelling about finding old war defences on the British coastline. Without even looking for them, you stumble on bunkers, radar stations and old radio bases, curious constructions that were never quite put to their fullest possible use and have been left to decay in the face of the sea and the salt and the wind. These sea defences are the subject of Marc Wilson's book, The Last Stand: Northern Europe, in which he travels around Europe photographing the sea defences of Britain, Belgium, Denmark, Norway and France. It's large format work and it's quite beautiful (Paul Virilio's Bunker Archaeology may be the most recognised photography of sea defences but that's a different kind of book) . Everything is shot in subdued diffused light, the pre-dawn it looks like much of the time, and the way in which the different defences merge and crumble into the landscape of which they are now part. At Sainte-Margtuerite-sur-Mer in Normandy, the grey brutalism of bunkers meets with the brutalism of crumbling cliffs, the plates of concrete mirroriing the tectonic plates of a shifting earth. On the pebble beaches, the shards of blackened concrete look like the remains of ancient megaliths, while on the grey sand stretches the slabs look almost soft and malleable. The Scandanavian defences take on a pagan look. At Vorupor in Denmark, a radar receiver is buried into what looks like peat bog, while on the beach the batteries (which could fire 495 kilogramme projectiles) look like the remains of particularly malevolent beetles. At Haugesund in Norway, the batteries are folded into the basalt rock formations. The top of one bunker peeks out from a pile of shattered rock like the top of some strange helmet, the opening a visor from which some mysterious being looks out upon the world. The most attractive patterns are made by tank walls, the one-kilometre wall at Newburgh, Scotland being a particularly fine example, while the anti-submarine barrier in the Firth of Forth is known as 'the dragons' teeth' for good reason. The English sea defences are curious and range from old gun placements on the white cliffs between Dover and Folkestone and the defences at Studland Bay in Dorset, the bay where the full-scale rehearsal for D-Day took place. The Last Stand is as multi-layered as the landscapes which it features; there's historical detail wrapped folded over into a chronotopia of functional brutalism, mixed with local touches that feeds into the geological, panoramic and tactical. All the boxes are ticked in Robert Adams traditional landscape list: there's geography, autobiography, and metaphor. But on top of that, Wilson gives us a politicised view of landscape and power that ties back to survey photography of Timothy O'Sullivan and the work of Mitch Epstein. Layered into that is an Arcadian vision. With its focus on Northern Europe it's a dystopian Arcadia; there is a pagan feel to Wilson's pictures, a syncretic vision where geology, flora, climate and war find a single expression. And it's beautiful. Exhibitions, talks: 2019 Memory and Light festival, Kaunuas 2022, Lithuania. 2018 Permanent collection - Holocaust Exhibition & learning centre, Huddersfield. 2018 Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Group show. 2017 Oriel Colwyn gallery, Wales. Solo show. 2016 Bonhoga gallery, Shetland. Solo show. 2015 Romania photo festival 2015 Athens Photo Festival - Benaki Museum - Main exhibition 2014 Peacock Visual Arts Aberdeen. Solo show. 2013-2014 The Royal Armouries Museum Leeds. Solo show. 2013 Anise Gallery - London. Solo show. 2013 The Royal Armouries Museum Fort Nelson, Portsmouth. Solo show. 2013 The Affordable Art Fair Eyestorm New York & London 2013 Terry O'Neill Award Lucy Bell gallery, St Leonards 2013 Terry O'Neill Award The Strand gallery, London 2010 Landscape One, The Lucy Bell Gallery, Group show 2006 Association of Photographers, London. Group show. 2006 Association of Photographers, London, Sublime. Group show. 2005 New York contemporary art fair. Group show. 2005 Photo2005, Affordable art fair. Group show. 2004 Fluid gallery, Grenoble, France, Solo show. 2003 Greenpeace Save or delete exhibition, London. Group show 2002 Victoria and Albert Museum, Dislocation 2001 Art 2001, London, Group show. 2000 Focal Point gallery, Southend, Solo show 1999 Now Showing Gallery, London. Solo show 1996 The Photographers Gallery, London. Group show 1996 Instituto Europeo del Design, Milan. Group show 1996 The Back Hill Gallery, Clerkenwell. London. Solo show. Selected Awards / Publications / Reviews / Talks 2019 Kaunas Pilnas Kulturos - interview (radio and print) 2019 Holland America ship Guest lecturer, Japan. 2018 The Wiener library for Holocaust and Genocide research - talk 2017 The Army and Navy Club, London - talk 2016 Natural History Museum - talk 2016 Radio Resonance conversation 2016 Digital camera Magazine 2016 Professional Photography Magazine 2015 Source 2015 The Telegraph 2015 The Times 2015 The Daily Mail 2015 Wired 2015 Colin Pantall book review 2015 Dezeen 2014 Vice 2014 The Daily Mail 2014 Grafik 2014 Architects Journal 2014 Raw View Magazine 2014 Design Observer / Places Journal 2014 The Guardian Online 2104 Radio 2 talk show - Jeremy Vine 2014 BBC In Pictures 2014 Culture 24 2014 Photoforum - talk 2012 Wayne Ford The Last Stand 2013 Terry O'Neil Award 2013 Photomonitor The Last Stand 2012 aCurator magazine 2006 PDN Photo Annual 2000 Published in British Journal of Photography 1995 Published in British Journal of Photography About the project : Photographed between 2010 and 2014, The Last Stand aims to reflect the histories and stories military conflict and the memories held in the landscape itself. The series is made up of 86 images and is documents some of the physical remnants of the Second World War on the coastlines of the British Isles and Northern Europe, focusing on military defence structures that remain and their place in the shifting landscape that surrounds them. Many of these locations are no longer in sight, either subsumed or submerged by the changing sands and waters or by more human intervention. At the same time others have re-emerged from their shrouds. Over the four years 23,000 miles were travelled to 143 locations to capture these images along the coastlines of the UK, The Channel Islands, Northern & Western France, Denmark, Belgium and Norway. seren serenity calm meditative reflection meditation calmness sea ocean mist atmosphere atmospheric history emotion feeling fine art photography

Creator:

Marc Wilson (1968)

Creation Year:

2012

Dimensions:

Height: 30 in (76.2 cm)Width: 40 in (101.6 cm)

More Editions & Sizes:

60x40 Edition of 5Price: $3,125

Medium:

C Print

Movement & Style:

Modern