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Jean-Marc Prouveur
Jean-Marc Prouveur (born 17 December, 1956, St. Quentin, France) is a French artist and filmmaker. He attended L'École de Beax-Arts in Cambrai.

On arriving in London in 1976, he became involved in the circle of Derek Jarman, and subsequently, in the making of the 1977 film Jubilee.

For much of the 1980s Prouveur worked independently in the photographic medium, creating artworks characterised by the "outlaw sexuality" of the male nude, punctuated with religious iconography, showing in London, New York, Paris, Amsterdam and Rome. He acknowledges artistic precedents in F. Holland Day and Wilhelm von Gloeden, and to a shared artistic preoccupation with contemporaries Robert Mapplethorpe and Gilbert and George.<ref Jean-Marc Prouveur: Altar Pieces (June 1982), essay by Marco Livingstone.

In the early 1990s Prouveur moved into film, launching his Liquid London studio. His early short films, Dance Macabre and the Georges Bataille-influenced Solar Anus, were elegies to AIDS; later in the decade he moved into pornography.

Prouveur now lives between London and Auvergne, France. He continues to experiment in photography and film, is researching an essay on the history of pornography and its place in art, and is in negotiations to exhibit new works in Paris.