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Mark Titmarsh (born 1955) is a contemporary Australian artist best known for his expanded painting practice. His work involves permutations of painting, sculpture, installation, screen media, performance and writing. He published a book, Expanded Painting (Bloomsbury 2017) that details the evolution of contemporary painting into its current expanded form. He lives and works in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Work
During the 1980s he won awards at Ann Arbor and Montreal International Festivals for his experimental films. In Australia he co-founded and co-edited the contemporary arts magazine, On the Beach becoming a significant contributor to the development of postmodernism in the visual arts. His work as a painter was included in Australian Perspecta 1989 and his film work was shown in Australian Perspecta 1986.

In the 1990s he co-founded the Sydney based artist’s run initiative Art Hotline exhibiting weekly one day exhibitions of ephemeral works in non-gallery everyday sites such as abandoned warehouses and disused laneways. He is the editor of an eponymously titled book documenting the 3 year life of the project between 1992 and 1995. The artists involved worked mostly in the area of post-painting objects, taking the form of 3 dimensional constructions referring to conceptual or deconstructed aspects of painting. In early 2006 he was a co-founder of the artist run space, Loose Projects in Sydney.

His current practice gathered under the term ‘expanded painting’, is a way of painting and not painting at the same time. It involves deconstructing traditional conventions of painting based on canvas, brush and stretcher and replacing them with other materials including contemporary devices and post-industrial services. Expanded Painting incorporates all other media into a form of practice that is not readily identifiable as painting. Other studio disciplines like sculpture, installation, video, performance and writing become part of, tools for, technical operations of, painting in an expanded field.

He is currently a tenured, part time lecturer in Interdisciplinary Studies, School of Design, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, where he has taught since 1999.

He was a co-founding member of the Super 8 Film Group, a Sydney-based organization for the promotion, distribution, and exhibition of Australian professional experimental filmmaking. He was the founding member of Metaphysical TV – a group of 5 experimental filmmakers whose work relied on reconstructed fragments appropriated from broadcast television imagery.

Exhibitions
Titmarsh’s exhibition history comprises Australian and international exhibitions. It includes the Pompidou Centre, Paris, Ionion Centre for Art and Culture, Greece , Barbara Braathen Gallery, New York City , and Lang Gallery, Vienna. He has held numerous exhibitions at commercial galleries including Roslyn Oxley, Sydney, Bellas Milani Gallery, Brisbane and Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne.

A monograph about his work, titled, The Thing, was written by Cameron Tonkinwise, and published by Artspace. Sydney, in 2006.

Collections
Titmarsh’s works are held in museums and private and corporate collections in Australia, Europe and the United States. These include:
 * The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
 * The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
 * The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
 * The Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
 * The Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
 * The Monash University Museum Art Collection, Melbourne, Australia
 * The Lake Macquarie Regional Gallery, Lake Macquarie, NSW, Australia
 * Art Bank, Canberra, Australia
 * Parliament House Collection, Canberra, Australia
 * The University of Technology Sydney Art Collection, Sydney
 * Cinemedia, National Film Library, Melbourne, Australia
 * The National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra, Australia

Recognition
Titmarsh was awarded the Grace Cossington Art Award in 2016 and The Lake Macquarie Regional Art Prize in 1989.