Mark Sheeky

Mark Sheeky (b. 1972) is a multi-disciplinary artist and polymath from the North of England. His career began designing and developing computer games for the Amiga computer, then PC games, publishing over 50 titles by 2006.In 2008 he became a full time artist, an oil painter in the surrealist/fantastical genre, and has one painting in the U.K. National Art Collection, and one artwork in the Nietzsche-Dokumentationszentrum, Naumberg. Art awards include The Grosvenor Museum's 8th Open Art Award, The Barracks Trust Award, and The Jobling Gowler Art Award.
After early experiments in synthesizer music, Sheeky’s first music release was Arcangel in 2000, the CD soundtrack to his first Windows PC game. Second release Synaesthesia was released by REV Records in 2001. Since then, all of his music remains self-published.
As of 2024, Sheeky has published 70 music releases in genres ranging from avant-garde piano compositions to art-rock/art-pop; with 4 releases with Deborah Edgeley as part of contemporary lieder duo, ‘Fall in Green’.
From 2015 to 2018 Sheeky was producer and presenter of weekly arts radio programme ArtsLab, for community station RedShift Radio. After leaving RedShift, the format was translated to YouTube for two years as ArtSwarm.
Published books include the novella The Many Beautiful Worlds of Death (2015), the art treatise 21st Century Surrealism (2018), and several illustrated works including a contemporary set of illustrations for William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.

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