Marc Rayner Australian, b. 1959

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"It’s very difficult to be an Australian artist and not be influenced by the vast and diverse works by the Aboriginal peoples that first inhabited that land."
Marc Rayner: "My direction however is primarily influenced by the neo-expressionist movement, which of course is also heavily influenced by various indigenous cultures, naive art, children's art, and general stripping down of classical art themes, gestures and ideas. In this direction, I find a beautiful symmetry with and belonging to Neolithic and tribal art forms.
 
My visual cues arrive at any time and from anywhere. I have been known to wake up in the middle of the night and start painting as I'm sure many artists do. The Neoexpressionist genre also accurately reflects the distorted paradigm in which we live."

 Rayner currently lives and works in central Sweden.

 

CV

1984 Tasmanian school of art. Life drawing, 2D studies, ceramics and
sculpture.

1987 Northern Metropolitan TAFE. Printmaking, life drawing and painting.

 

Solo Exhibitions
2022 Streams gallery, Hongkong
2020 Gallery Jan Wallmark, Stockholm, Sweden
2019 S.P.C Kunstrum Copenhagen, Denmark
2019 Sh-project, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
2019 Tierps Kommun Library, Tierp, Sweden
2019 Galleri Jan Wallmark, Stockholm, Sweden
2017 Galleri Jan Wallmark, Stockholm, Sweden
2015 Galleri K, Konstnärsföreningens, Västerås, Sweden
2014 Stenhuset, Surahammar, Sweden
2013 Galler M16 Canberra, Australia
2012 Galleri Ekvall + Törnblom, Stockholm, Sweden
2010 Galleri Jan Wallmark, Stockholm, Sweden
2008 Utbildningsradion, Stockholm, Sweden
2007 Galleri Bellman, Stockholm, Sweden

 

Residencies
2019 Sarria Bianale and Symposium/Wok shop, Spain
2018 Residency Takshila educational society, Sewan district, Bihar, India
2015 Qatar Al Asmakh Art Symposium, Doha, Qatar
2012 Tellus Art workshop, Delhi, India

Group shows, Art fairs and Jury selected shows

2024  Inaguaral Group Opening Morrison Gallery Kent, CT 
2022 Busan Art fair with Paul Lee and The Lilac Gallery, South Korea
2022 Art week with Streams Gallery, Hongkong
2022 Affordable Art Fair with Jan Wallmark, Stockholm, Sweden
2020 International Visual Art Exhibition, New Deli, India
2021 Ulsan International Art Fair with Paul Lee and The Lilac Gallery, South Korea
2019 Sarria Biennale, Spain
2019 Long Island group show with Paul Lee and The Lilac Gallery New York,
USA
2019 BAMA (Busan Annual Market of Art) with Paul Lee and Lilac gallery,
South Korea
2018 Gallery Sonia Monti, Paris, France
2018 Bihar Museum in conjunction with Takshela Art Society, Patna, India
2017 Gallery Magazini,Trapanni, Italy
2017 Orto Botanico di Napoli, Naples, Italy
2013 Gallery M16 group show
2011 Edsviks konsthall höstsalong (jury selected), Sollentuna, Sweden
2011 ArtMonaco ´11, Monaco (jury selected group exhibition)
2010 Art shopping, Carrousell du Louvre, Paris (art fair)
2009 Aftonbladet, Stockholm, Sweden
2009 Galleri Jan Wallmark, Stockholm, Sweden
2009 Liljevalchs Vårsalong, Stockholm, Sweden (jury selected)
2008 Galleri Sander, Norrköping
2008 Galleri Sander, Linköping
2007 Edsvik Konsthalls Vårsalong (jury selected), Sollentuna, Sweden
2019, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013 Konst på väg, “Art on the Road”, Open Studio, Jury selected. Tierp, Sweden