Marshall (b. 1986) holds a BA Hons Fine Art, Norwich School of Art and Design, Norwich (2005-2008). He lives and works in London.

Marshall is celebrated for a practice, which investigates the impact and influence of digital media upon painting and his own creative process. Fluidly adopting and adapting the tropes of past painterly movements while harnessing the logic of graphic editing software, Marshall celebrates the potential of digital media to generate new aesthetics while questioning what it means to put paint on canvas in our digitally dominant time. Finding himself increasingly thinking in terms of a software user rather than a traditional painter, he likens the role of the canvas to that of the screen – a space of limitless potential and innovation. Marshall’s compositions are characterised by their broken down layers, with areas ‘filled’ with gradient, pattern or textural effects. The logic of graphic editing software such as Photoshop, Illustrator and Microsoft Paint, with their layers, cut-copy-paste actions and selective masking and editing of imagery is always at the forefront of his mind. With an attraction to processes of collage, sampling and remixing, alongside the illusory potential of painting, Marshall is influenced as much by the virtual worlds of computer games as by trompe-l’oeil of 17th Century Dutch painters and early 20th Century artistic movements such as Surrealism or Cubism.

Notable exhibitions include: Art Brussels 2019 with ALICE BLACK, ‘UX’, ALICE BLACK, London 2019; Square Art Projects, Square Art Projects at SWAB Art Fair 2017, The Italian Pavilion, Barcelona, 2017; Merge Visible, Contemporary British Painting, St. Marylebone Crypt, London, 2017; Norfolk Contemporary Art Society - 60 years On, Norwich Castle Museum and Gallery, Norwich, 2016; John Moores Painting Prize 2016, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 2016; Mind Out - Manufactured Space and Constructed Transformations, A.P.T. Gallery, London, 2016.

selected works