Profile

I studied at Camberwell School of Art, Edinburgh College of Art, The Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, and Skowhegan School of Art in Maine. I grew up in the Scottish Borders and now live with my family in Edinburgh by the seaside. I make a living as a designer and some of this work can be seen here.

In 2018 I opened a small occasional non-profit gallery called Gallery 5595 which I intended to open two to there times a year and show drawing and experimental work by artists from home and abroad. Covid has of course temporarily put a halt on this happy enterprise.

It should go without saying that all the artwork contained in this site is copyright to me, but I’ll say it anyway: all the artwork contained in this website is copyright to mark haddon 2022

If you’re interested in any of the work shown here or just want to have a chat, I can be contacted by email here and on Instagram @markhaddon_artist

About the work


I make work in a variety of media, currently I am largely using wood, pigment and ink. My making process is a kind of unstructured or even accidental research and the work seems often to be arrived at through walking and reading. Research informs the practice but doesn’t inhibit what I might want to make. Equally the research is not directed by practical objectives, rather there is an open-ended approach to both: they connect and then go in separate directions and then connect again.  

While some of the time the work is an exploration of the potency of imagined space, particularly that found in myth, the rest of the time, making art is simply a mechanism by which I can rail against those mental and physical boundaries that seem increasingly to encroach. Much, or all of the current work explores loss and boundary.

My art practice has its roots in installation and my use of media is fluid, which allows a freedom in both practice and form.