The exhibition's viewpoint is from that of experiencing Fairy Stories only as an adult. Something many of us have done that have not had conventional childhoods, had particularly poor ones or simply because the Fairy Story telling childhood convention was not in our own childhood culture. Marcus’s own childhood didn't include them and so his first experience of Children’s Fairy Stories was while producing children’s television. He’s now shared this experience and developed ideas about presenting Fairy Stories from this unconventional, new perspective with among others, Inmates in the Prison Network. He's created twelve artworks for this series which heralds a new direction for the artist away from Capture and Vacuum Sealing. Moving towards a more Painterly and Abstract style without losing the Assemblage, Collage and Reliquary influences that have become a bedrock of his arts practice. Each Artwork is realised differently using different combinations of materials and technologies. Print, sculpting, textile for example. Each work is  accompanied by a 'Making of Video' and each with an individual Soundtrack which has been specially created for it. These digital soundtracks are part of the Art Exhibition and reflects Marcus's musical appreciation journey with Mansfield College of Art sitting in the middle. So the first three creation videos mix his very earliest Musical influences while still at School, Osibisa an Afro Rock Band that began the idea of World Music to his Leaving Mansfield College of Art for a career in Show Business, the world of work, initially as a sound man. Then becoming obsessed with the Music and Film work of Grace Jones and Jean Paul Goude. And so the last four artworks’ making of creation videos are accompanied by a mix sound track of Fairy Stories and Grace Jones Music.
Imagining an alternative path into HE to study Fine Art in between these Musical styles and set immediately after Marcus leaving Mansfield College of Art in this story are created another four artworks' soundtracks. They're early 80’s electronic mix soundtracks. Ones that Marcus has just created but he imagines he could have created back then had he taken the University Fine Art route after leaving Mansfield College of Art instead of going straight into Theatre work and bought a synth as some of his former art student mates did. Peppered throughout all of the soundtracks though are themes and melodies he's composed to cut in and across the soundtracks seemingly randomly. It’s a flight of fancy of might have been's and hind-sights in sliding doors fashion and a bit of new creative exploration and fun, something that will hopefully add to the making of video’s interest. It's Art and not meant to make masses of sense but is a snapshot of several parts of a creative journey, creative life all mixed together. One that academically never went beyond A level GCSE but in learning life skills went much further. It's a creative journey anybody could choose to make and in a wide variety of ways. Marcus chose to begin his alone after A levels and Art College. “It was the right choice for me”. He says and “please enjoy my art for what it is, important to me, hopefully informing and entertaining to others. Nobody sets out to make boring so I hope it isn't. Make the choices that best suit you”. I hope you enjoy this.