Mark Anderson is a visual sound artist, and pyrotechnician, working almost exclusively outside.
He makes compelling site specific temporary installations and performances, often spectacular, at other times subtle and intimate, and, on occasion, all these things at the same time. His installations and performances are moving investigations into
phenomena and perception that touch, surprise and sometimes amuse audiences
both young and old.
Drawing inspiration from the meeting point between the natural, industrial, and
technological world, his work uses light and sound to explore and create, often with
a childlike playfulness, a fusion of these worlds, defining space with sound and
creating illusion in outdoor spaces.
His many works in Power Plant, For the Birds and in Furious Folly create immersive
visual sound environments, sometimes in sympathy with the surroundings at
others almost jarring as another world invades the ‘natural’ environment.
He often works in collaboration with other artists and groups, and has worked often
with Anne Bean, Richard Wilson, the late Paul Burwell of the Bow Gamalan, Red
Earth, Stans Cafe, Jony Easterby, Kathy Hinde Ansuman Biswas and many others. He
was a founder member of the long running but now disbanded collective Blissbody
and is the lead artist of the international hit Power Plant.
