Recent Projects
Artist & Fabricator – the Oval - public art commission – Casey City Council 2023
Selected artist – Remnants II - Montalto sculpture prize, Red Hill, 2022-2023
Selected artist – Scout - bronze series, Lorne Small Sculpture Biennial Lorne 2022
Selected artist – three of a kind - Montalto sculpture prize, Red Hill, 2021-2022
Artist & Fabricator – I AM _ public art commission – City of Greater Geelong 2021
Lead artist & Fabricator – We could be Giants – Arts Access Victoria & Bayside City Council, 2021
Selected artist – lament - Wollongong sculpture prize, 2021
Fabrication artist – Thylacine P/L, ANU Canberra University, 2020
Shortlisted Artist - Brimbank public art commission, Melbourne, 2020
Selected artist - Wollongong sculpture prize, Wollongong, 2020
Selected artist -remnants-Tesselaar sculpture award 2019.
Selected artist - Lament - Montalto sculpture prize, Red Hill, 2019
Shortlisted Artist - we could be giants M5 public art commission Sydney,
Selected artist –black candy-Tesselaar sculpture award 2018.
Selected artist – what’s that Skip, -Biennal of Australian Art, Ballarat 2018
Selected artist - Black- Wollongong sculpture prize, Wollongong, 2018
Selected artist – Lt Skip Lorne Small Sculpture, Biennial, Lorne 2018
Selected artist - In this we trust- Montalto sculpture prize, Red Hill, 2016, 2017, 2018
Artist & Fabricator – Scouts, public art commission -Geelong City Council 2017
Winning artist -Gold Scout-Tesselaar sculpture award 2017.
Set design - Lady Eats Apple, Back to Back Theatre Melb Festival 2016, European tour 2017 / 18
Artist & Fabricator – My Dearest, public art commission - Hepburn Shire, Creswick Vic 2016
Selected artist – Scouts - Lorne Sculpture Biennial, Lorne 2016
New showing - Generic Objects of Influence- Qdos Gallery, Lorne 2016
Artistic design & fabrication - The High Altar- Big West Festival, 2015
Artist & Fabricator - Aunty Meredith’s, public art commission, Meredith Vic 2014
Lead Artist – Generic- Art Prospect festival, St Petersburg Russia 2014
Shortlisted Artist - Braybrook public art commissions 2014
Set design - Super DiscountBack to Back Theatre, Sydney Theatre Company and Malthouse Theatre Sydney, Melbourne 2013
Shortlisted artist - Footscray public art commission 2013,
Set design - Hell House Back to Back Theatre Melbourne 2012
Inflated installation design & fabrication - Seeding for a Greener City, Point View Art Macau, China
2012 Lead artist design & fabrication ShoelessWyndham City Council & Arts Access Melbourne
2012 Lead artist building launch Courthouse ARTS Geelong, Victoria 2012
Community residency The 5 Whale Project, Upwelling Festival Portland, Victoria 2012 (remount)
Design construction Ganesh Versus the Third ReichBack to Back Theatre Melbourne & worldwide
Community residency Reveal Creative Gippsland Festival Sale, Victoria 2011
Design & installation Yellow Duck Stereosonic Australian National Tour 2011
Design & Fabrication, 2011 Festival Poster Launch Adelaide Fringe Festival 2010
Design & Fabrication, 2010 Festival Poster Launch Adelaide Fringe Festival 2009
Set Design & construction Food Court Back to Back Theatre 2008
Inflated installation Body Manufacture Mozart Festival Austria 2006
Inflated installation & design Soft Back to Back Theatre Melbourne, Zurich & Hamburg 2005
Mark Cuthbertson bio
Mark is a Victorian based artist, living & working on Wadawurrung lands, who’s current practice is in sculpture, visual arts & set design. His work explore’s metaphors of colonization & domestication within a broad national context. His artwork is a playful commentary on society turning the monotonous into something far more interesting and challenging.
He creates using simplistic and common aspects & materials of the everyday, drawing influence from artists such as Man Ray, Duchamp’s and Christo, who seek alternative ways to transform an object of the everyday into artistic vehicles for social commentary.
Mark deconstructs an idea to its simplest elements re-purposing and re-contextualising rudimentary materials, stripping them to their barest elements and reinventing their application and purpose.
Mark has delivered both public and private art commissions with his current large sculptures, having focused on concrete as a design material, and was recently awarded a major public art commission with Casey City Council 2023. His works have involving curatorial inclusion in the Montalto Sculpture prize, Lorne Sculpture Biennale, Wollongong sculpture award, BOAA - Biennale of Australian Art and winning Tesselaar Sculpture Award 2017.
He regularly designs works with Back to Back Theatre, projects including Super Discount, Ganesh Versus the Third Reich, Hell House, Food Court & Lady Eats Apple. Other recent projects include Seeding for a Greener City – Macau, China, invited artist - Art Prospect, St Petersburg Russia and public commissions with Casey city council, City of Greater Geelong Wyndham city council and Golden Plains Shire & the private collections.