Mark Tweedie’s work looks for wonder in the smallness of earthly things and our relationship with the terrestrial, and also in the enormous grandeur of the night sky. The majority or his work originates as photographs but he prefers to print using hand-inked photopolymer plates finding that the slower, more physical method of working and the depth of the prints it creates, embodies and portrays a sense of wonder better than other methods. Tweedie’s current work falls into two main bodies: “Vegetable Heroes” champions the dignity and beauty of common plants and “Raw Sky” (part of a forthcoming duo show at Rugby Art gallery) which uses his deep space astronomical imagery, again printed as photogravures, a marriage of hi- and low-tech. Tweedie is a self-taught printmaker and astronomer who won the Derby Print Open People’s Choice award in 2024. His work is held in private collections worldwide, and he has photographs in the Royal Photographic Society permanent collection.
Mark Tweedie’s work looks for wonder in the smallness of earthly things and our relationship with the terrestrial, and also in the enormous grandeur of the night sky. The majority or his work originates as photographs but he prefers to print using hand-inked photopolymer plates finding that the slower, more physical method of working and the depth of the prints it creates, embodies and portrays a sense of wonder better than other methods. Tweedie’s current work falls into two main bodies: “Vegetable Heroes” champions the dignity and beauty of common plants and “Raw Sky” (part of a forthcoming duo show at Rugby Art gallery) which uses his deep space astronomical imagery, again printed as photogravures, a marriage of hi- and low-tech. Tweedie is a self-taught printmaker and astronomer who won the Derby Print Open People’s Choice award in 2024. His work is held in private collections worldwide, and he has photographs in the Royal Photographic Society permanent collection.