Mark Corfield-Moore was born in 1988 in Bangkok, Thailand and currently lives and works in Hastings, UK. Describing himself as a painter who utilises textile techniques, in his practice, Mark reflects on his Thai and British heritage to investigate themes of transience and cultural memory. Eschewing and repurposing the ancient art of ikat, a weaving technique he learnt in Thailand, his distorted and glitchy imagery is a recollection and recreation of personal and collective histories.
Mark is interested in the poetic potential of language, particularly through the lens of cultural and intergenerational difference. Various phrases feature in each work, evoking fragmented communication and a sense of being in-between meaning and understanding. This linguistic disjunction is mirrored in his layered process, as hand-painted warp threads, disrupted motifs, and textual vignettes coalesce into visual fields that resist fixed interpretation. Situated between textile and image, memory and materiality, his paintings make tangible questions of identity, translation, and diasporic inheritance.
Mark graduated from the Royal Academy Schools in 2018. Recent solo shows include: We Speak Chicken, Kunsthall Stavanger, Norway (2024-25); We Speak Chicken, Goldsmiths CCA, London (2024); Cheetah Girl, Devonshire Collective, Eastbourne (2023); Other Follies and Picnics, Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona (2022) and Neither Here Nor There, Cob Gallery, London (2021). Group exhibitions include: Niru Ratnam, London (2025); Kate MacGarry, London (2024); Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (2023); Royal Academy of Art, London (2022); Swedish Institute, Paris (2022); Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester (2020); Jerwood Space, London (2019).