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MARK WILLCOX An Exhibition Commemorating the 21st Anniversary of the King’s Cross Underground Fire. With special thanks to Erwina A-Ghafar and Novas Arts, Freehand Design & Marketing. For further information go to: www.markwillcox.co.uk email:markwillcoxbtinternet.com@btinternet.com Š2008 Mark Willcox.
Front Cover: Turnerushour (from Rush Hour) Below: Fire Dance
Below: Flashpoint
Overleaf: Two Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion Right: Fire Escape Below: Ticket Hall Melt
Mark Willcox became sight-impaired in an
The artworks in this exhibition have been
Mark Willcox is a Fellow of the Royal Society
accident at the age of 18. In spite of this he
created as a commemoration, in response
of Arts, a Fellow of the Chartered Society of
graduated in the visual arts and had a multi
to his memories of that night and thoughts
Designers and an Affiliate Member of the
award-winning career in design. He now
of ‘what might have been’, after the
British Institute of Professional Photographers.
works as an artist dealing with contemporary
realisation earlier this year, that 2008 is the
He is associated with and co-manages
urban themes and uses photography
21st anniversary – a sad ‘Coming of Age’ -
Liverpool Contemporary Artists, a network of
extensively as a medium
of this tragic event.
creative practitioners in Merseyside.
On 18 November 1987 a massive fire engulfed Kings Cross London Underground station, killing 31 people. Mark Willcox left the station only a few minutes before it went up in flames