Mark Templeton

Mark Templeton is a Canadian sound artist and photographer who has been actively releasing work for nearly twenty years. In the spring of 2018, he released his first photobook, Distorted Tourist, which included a series of five one-sided flexi records. In 2021, his new photobook and cassette, Ocean Front Property, was co-published by The Ice Plant and Graphical. Templeton has performed live and exhibited his work internationally. His work has been featured in Le Monde Magazine, GUP Magazine and American Suburb X. In June of 2019, Mark completed an MFA in Photography through Ulster University in Belfast, NI.

Great White is a photograph included in Mark Templeton’s second photobook, Ocean Front Property. From a sense of absence and geographic isolation grew a new body of work with two components: A book of color photographs, made entirely in the landlocked province of Alberta (“where the nearest ocean is a thousand kilometers away”), and an Audio Experience (a ‘soundtrack’ to the book, included as a digital download or available on a limited edition cassette). Rooted in the same sense of longing — for the imagined comfort of warm blue water and an escape from one’s familiar surroundings — these complementary sensory worlds form a kind of mirage: a prism of banal surfaces, spaces, and sonic textures through which the fragments of an intangible fantasy can be glimpsed, a circular psychic journey from the desolate to the sublime.

Website: www.fieldsawake.com

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