Collection: Marc Okeil

@marc.okeil

Marc Okeil employs drawing and ceramics to provoke investigation into the transient nature of the human body, exploring how we as humans physically traverse space and those around us. In doing so, generating suggestive and gestural figures. Marc demonstrates this ideology within his practice by creating forms that lack representative qualities, placing greater emphasis on their figures to explore their organic movement.

Our physical actions create a ripple effect, reflecting off of our surroundings – be it off people or space, to ultimately rebound back at us. Marc is interested in the idea of the self being a collective amalgamation of our material surroundings. The expressive range of the human body is a great reflection of this; pushing a body to its physical limits – twisting, bending, contorting. Marc perceives these forms as an extension of his own body, attempting to explore and recognise both the strengths and restrictions imposed upon our bodies.

Marc is engaged with these ideas as a means to explore themes and ideas of connection, duality, and dichotomy of living. Playfully creating spaces that are inhabited by animatic characters with different visible characteristics, showcasing how they all come to influence each other within the space.