Marcus Cope

Education

2006 Chelsea College of Art MA Fine Art

2003-2004 Chelsea College of Art Post-Grad Diploma, Fine Art

1999-2002 Coventry University BA Hons, Fine Art

Selected Exhibitions Solo and Duo

Sartorial Contemporary Art, London, Female Rage and Model Cars (with Stephanie Moran), 2008

Moufflon Bookshop, Cyprus, It’s a Funny Old Game (with Stephanie Moran), 2006

Cyprus College of Art, Cyprus, Mange Tout, 2003

Group

Hortensia Gallery, London, Pop Goes The Weasel, 2008

En Plo, Pafos, Cyprus, How To Tell Yourself From A Television, 2008

Sartorial Contemporary, London, Mothers, 2008

Brio Expressions, Lemesos, Cyprus, Young Artist Award, 2007

6 Neals Yard, London, Nude, 2007

Guy Hilton Gallery, London, So Sad, 2007

Residence, London, The Marmite Prize for painting, 2006

Studio 1.1, London, Grotto, 2006

Centro Culturale Cappella Orsini, Rome, HIV and Contemporary Arts, 2006

Three Colts Gallery, London, Through the Large Glass, 2006

Astley Cheetham Art Gallery, Tameside, It’s a Dog’s Life, 2006

Westbourne Studios, London, Art Below Zero, 2006

La Viande, London, The Attender, 2006

Three Colts Gallery, London, The Circus Show, 2006

Oh! Art, London, A Night on Earth, 2005

House Gallery, London, Flash in the Pan, Literally, 2005

Upstairs Gallery, London, Vanity Fayre, 2005

Trade Apartment, London, 53.9 Degrees, 2005

Sartorial Contemporary, London, Dolore, 2005

Temporarycontemporary, London, Fleamarket II, 2005

Pink Stallion, London & Manchester, Disturbing Eye, 2004

Edinburgh Arts Centre, Edinburgh, Mothers, 2004

Open Arts Platform, London, Noises, 2004

Collaborations

The Portman Estate, London, The Free Art Fair (with Harry Pye and Rowland Smith), 2008

Fishmarket, Northampton, It Takes Two (with Harry Pye), 2007

Sartorial Contemporary, London, Me, Me, Me (with Harry Pye), 2007

Guy Hilton Gallery, London, So Sad (with Harry Pye), 2007

The Brick Lane Gallery, London, Peace Camp (with Stephanie Moran), 2006

NoMoreGrey, London, For Peel (with David Smith), 2006

Royal Academy Pumphouse Gallery, Encounters with the Subordinary London (with Harry Pye), 2005 ]

Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Campbells Soup (with Harry Pye), 2005

Flaca, London, I’m Shy (the virgo show) (with Harry Pye), 2004

Three Colts Gallery, London We Can Work It Out (with Ruth Calland and Cat Botibol), 2004

Curation

Co-curator ‘Painting with Dolphins’, February 2009, CrimesTown.

Co-curator ‘The Marmite Prize’, November 2008, studio1.1

Co-curator ‘Pop Goes The Weasel’ , November 2008, Hortensia Gallery.

Co-curator ‘The Marmite Prize’, December 2006, The Residence.

Curator of art work for Cdr release ‘Three Sides of Sadness’ by John Chantler (Fourier Transform).

Co-curator ‘The Circus Show’, March 2006, Three Colts Gallery

Co-curator ‘Through The Large Glass’, September 2006, Three Colts Gallery.

‘We Can Work It Out’ October 2004, Three Colts Gallery.

‘Like Art’, November 2003, Pink Stallion Gallery.

Residencies

Cyprus College of Art, Pafos, Feb-June 2003

Cyprus College of Art, Lemesos, September 2005

Publications

‘The Marmite Prize’, exhibition catalogue, November 2008

‘The Free Art Fair 2008’, exhibition catalogue, October 2008

‘Female Rage and Model Cars’, Sunday Mail, Seven Magazine, Jan 2008

‘Telling Yourself From A Television’, Cyprus Weekly, LIfestyle, Jan 2008

‘Harry Pye’s Postcard from London’, Epifanio 6, Summer 2007

Jeroen Teunens ‘Draw me a Terrorist’, 2006

‘Celeste Art Prize’, exhibition catalogue, 2006.

‘The Rebel’ magazine, March 2006

‘The Circus Show’ was reviewed in ‘Critical Friend 4’ by Russell Herron, 2006

ITN London Today and Tonight programmes, 1 April 2006

Contributor to panel discussion on interactive art, Resonance FM, May 2006

‘Night on Earth’, exhibition booklet, November 2006.

‘Preview- Dolore’, The Guardian ‘Guide’, May 2005

‘Chelsea Arts’ Magazine, Winter 2004-05

‘Artists Studios in London’, Gap, Japan, 2004