Exhibition

The Clubland Chronicles by Mark Wigan

4 Apr 2019 – 7 Apr 2019

Regular hours

Thursday
10:00 – 18:00
Friday
10:00 – 18:00
Saturday
10:00 – 18:00
Sunday
10:00 – 18:00

Cost of entry

free

Save Event: The Clubland Chronicles by Mark Wigan4

I've seen this1

People who have saved this event:

close

5th Base Gallery

London, United Kingdom

Address

Travel Information

  • Tube: Algate East, Whitechappel, Shoreditch High Street
Directions via Google Maps Directions via Citymapper
Event map

A panoramic exhibition of pen and ink drawings by prolific social and cultural commentator Mark Wigan.

About

A panoramic exhibition of pen and ink drawings by prolific social and cultural commentator Mark Wigan.

The city is Mark Wigan’s landscape, the urban experience fuelling his work. The vibrancy of urban night life and underground sub cultures resonate in his intricate drawings.​

An influential pioneer of transglobal urban art during the 1980’s and 90’s Andy Warhol described Wigan’s four floor mural at London’s Limelight Club as HOT! which led to him painting the Limelight Club in New York.

Wigan was a regular contributor to i-D Magazine in the 80s/90s writing articles, taking polaroids and illustrating the London club scene. He painted murals at Kensington Market, The Scala Cinema and Astoria Theatre in London, Nagoya City Expo and P.Picasso Club in Tokyo.  Wigan co-founded and produced nightclubs in the West End including the seminal Brain Club, the Love Ranch at Maximus and Merry England at Cafe de Paris.​

Although his work comes from a British satirical tradition he is an international artist with a unique artistic vision. He has a strong and confident sense of line and works in a meticulously controlled way employing dexterity of hand.

The approach is interdisciplinary, crossing fine art, illustration and urban art. His output has included set design for the theatre and television, music graphics, nightclub interiors, live painting performances, murals, streetwear and regular international gallery exhibitions.

Since 1998 he has lectured at art schools throughout the UK and written six books on Illustration published by Bloomsbury. In 2009 with artist Kerry Baldry he founded the worlds first and only Museum of Club Culture. Recently he collaborated with Dr Martens on a collection and designed his own streetwear collection with Fairwhale in China.​

‘If a picture tells a thousand words Wigan’s drawings are

worth an entire library of professorial works on pop culture,

early works from 1985 are now revealed as astonishingly

accurate maps, showing the development of the attitudes

that defined sub cultures’ Alix Sharkey

The Independent Newspaper

‘Wigan is the court chronicler to the transient vanities of our

age .His poser packed drawings immortalise the murky menagerie of late night hipsterdom. A typical picture depicts adherents of every cult under the moon jostling cheek by haircut in the

bowels of any club. Its anthropology a go go’

Paul du Noyer New Musical Express

Preview 5pm to 9pm Thursday 4th April

Exhibition open:

10am to 7pm Friday 5th and Saturday 6th April​

Email markwigan@hotmail.com

www.instagram.com/markwigan

www.markwigan.tictail.com

www.facebook.com/markwigan

twitter.com/markwigan

What to expect? Toggle

Exhibiting artistsToggle

The Transglobal Art of Mark Wigan

Comments

Have you been to this event? Share your insights and give it a review below.