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Mark Siddall
Born	Mark Reginald Siddall (1962-07-10)July 10, 1962 Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada
Occupation(s)	Photographer and Oil Painter
Website	www.MarkSiddall.com

Mark Siddall (b. July 10, 1962) is a Toronto artist whose photographs are displayed at his eponymous gallery in Toronto, the Mark Siddall Gallery.

Mark Siddall has always seen those things that the rest of the world walks on past.

The thrush in the willows, the split in the sidewalk, the longing in the eye. Even from childhood, he regarded his surroundings as a rich canvas of experience, constantly evolving and begging to be remembered. First with a paintbrush and later with a camera, Siddall obliged.

Career

Born and raised in Port Colborne, Ontario, Siddall has always been attracted to natural beauty. Through his life, he has cultivated his love for art with the entire Niagara region as his subject. Siddall, who would go on to study business, computer programming, English and fine art in college, has sold his work to a number of private collectors, and his art adorns the walls of the Port Colborne General Hospital.

Siddall’s latest venture is an art gallery, Mark Siddall Gallery, a solo exhibition space in Toronto that’s part of the Maask Group.

In addition to providing the artistic content for the regular rotation of shows erected at the gallery, Siddall offers a variety of photographic services to the outside world—both consumer and professional. His printing services, carried out on the very latest in high-end printing equipment, include digital production colour and giclée fine art prints, fine art photo prints, and canvas and premium inkjet prints. On the commercial front, Siddall’s short-run full-colour printing arm turns out business cards, catalogues, postcards, calendars, flyers, manuals, newsletters, reports, sell sheets and more.

The gallery also offers a full complement of graphic services, and has the professional staff to take an inspired commercial concept—flyers, business cards, brochures, etc.—to handsome finished product.

Most recently, Siddall has mastered the highly specialized art of framing, and he now offers museum-quality custom framing services at his gallery under the Wake UP the Walls banner. Drawing from an oeuvre of more than 700 simple and elegant museum-quality frames and mats, Siddall employs premium materials and demanding production standards to build the frames that will encase other people’s masterpieces.

Today, Mark Siddall’s documented efforts to remember the splendour in which we mutually exist is a gift for the rest of us. Through his art, we’re treated to a unique second glimpse of a first impression.

Exhibitions

Group

• 2001 Roselawn Juried Photography Show
• 2004 Roselawn Juried Photography Show
• 2005 Roselawn Juried Photography Show

Solo

2009 Mark Siddall Gallery

• Flowers (March 26 - April 18)
• New York (April 30 - May 23)
• Men (June 10 - July 4)
• 'Scapes (July 16 - August 8)
• Butterflies (September 10 - October 3)
• Cemeteries (October 21 - November 14)
• Best Works (November 26 - December 18)

Awards

• 2001 Roselawn Juried Photography Show - First Place for Guardian, Second Place for Fruits of Labour
• 2004 Roselawn Juried Photography Show - Third Place for Buddha
• 2005 Roselawn Juried Photography Show - Second Place for Night Bridge, Third Place for Thornbury Tressel

Commissions

• Liver Foundation of Canada

Publications

Books

Flowers, Mark Siddall

• Publish Date: March 17, 2009
• Dimensions: Square 80 pgs
• Category: Arts & Photography
• ISBN:978-0-9812288-0-8,

New York, Mark Siddall

• Publish Date: Forthcoming
• Dimensions: 8.5x 11/ 60 pgs
• Category: Arts & Photography
• ISBN:978-0-9812288-1-5,

MEN, Mark Siddall

• Publish Date: Forthcoming
• Dimensions: 8.5x 11/ 60 pgs
• Category: Arts & Photography
• ISBN:978-0-9812288-4-6,

Calendars

2010 Calendar, Mark Siddall

• Publish Date: December 1, 2009
• Dimensions: 8.5x 11/ 28 pgs
• Category: Arts & Photography
• ISBN:978-0-9812288-2-2,

2010 Calendar - 'Scapes, Mark Siddall

• Publish Date: December 1, 2009
• Dimensions: 8.5x 11/ 28 pgs
• Category: Arts & Photography
• ISBN:978-0-9812288-5-3,

2010 Calendar - MEN, Mark Siddall

• Publish Date: December 1, 2009
• Dimensions: 8.5x 11/ 28 pgs
• Category: Arts & Photography
• ISBN:978-0-9812288-3-9,

Collections

• Port Colborne General Hospital
• TD Canada Trust

References

• National Post A twist on the old war paint
• Metro News Taking it all off for the lens
• The Tribune Port native opens photography exhibit at Toronto gallery
• North York Town Crier A new, beautiful view of the world

External links

• Official Website www.MarkSiddall.com
• Maask Group Website www.maask.ca
• Wake UP the Walls Website www.wakeupthewalls.com