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Fadelands
Marc Atkins
Allsop Gallery, Bridport
9 South Street, Bridport, Dorset DT6 3NR
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Wednesday to Saturday, 10am–4pm
About the exhibition
Bringing together work dating from the 1990s to the present, FADELANDS draws on more than thirty years of Marc Atkins’ artistic development. The exhibition represents a culmination of ideas explored in recent years through textual and textural works, and includes new and previously unexhibited pieces, some created specifically for the show.
The distinctive architecture of the Allsop Gallery has influenced the conception of the exhibition, informing the construction and arrangement of sculptures and the hanging of photographic and other two dimensional works. Although individual works retain their own identities, together they form a larger whole, taking visitors on a journey through the idea of FADELANDS.
Installation views
Inside the exhibition
A short view of Fadelands at the Allsop Gallery, Bridport, 2026. 20 seconds, without sound.
Exhibition statement
Fadelands is a journey through varying landscapes, entangled paths and buildings of myriad rooms, where fleeting insights, points of intricacies, shifts in shadow and fissures within certainties move towards elusive images and innominate forms. The work examines notions of the found and the imagined, the elegant and the desolate, perceptual uncertainty and the disturbing nature of beauty.
In Fadelands, images and ideas are ruptured and reformed, held within a page, a form, a screen or surface, before crossing the liminal and seeping out over time. For this exhibition, Atkins brings together sculpture, drawing and lens based imagery, using mechanical, chemical and digital processes, everyday objects, construction and discarded materials.
Framed and unframed images, small and large sculptural works, and time-based images on intimate and larger screens form a potent multidimensional composition.
Introductory film by Marc Atkins
Selected works
Brief biography
Marc Atkins is an English artist working in lens based media, drawing, painting, sculpture and text. He lived and worked for many years in London, with extended periods in Rome, Detroit, New York, Warsaw and Paris, and has recently moved to Bridport. Atkins has exhibited widely, and presented his work and ideas on the image at venues including the Royal Academy, London, the Royal College of Art, London, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, Université de Liège, Belgium, and CRASSH, University of Cambridge. His images are held in public and private collections, including Tate, London, the National Portrait Gallery, London, and the University of Cambridge. His solo books include The Logic of the Stairwell, The Prism Walls, Silent Street, The Teratologists, Catalogue and Warszawa.
Press & Media
Download the FADELANDS press release (PDF)
Press images: Marc Atkins, Fadelands / Untold Windows,
2025. © Marc Atkins. Courtesy of the artist.
Artist portrait: Marc Atkins in his studio, 2026.
Photograph © Françoise Lacroix.
High resolution images available on request.
Exhibition, artwork and press enquiries: Françoise Lacroix
studio@marcatkins.com
Fadelands
Allsop Gallery
Bridport Arts Centre
9 South Street
Bridport
Dorset
DT6 3NR
to
Wednesday to Saturday, 10am–4pm