Bonehead

Bonehead grew up here on Park Rd and attended local schools where his only interest was in art, graphics and design technology. Going on to art college, he hoped, would lead to a creative career, but jobs on offer to a youngster were poorly paid and in frustration he walked onto a local building site and was offered a job labouring. The combination of hard graft combined with creativity in restoring and developing property worked well until ‘my back fell out of with the building trade’.

Attending night school to learn autoCAD, he came across a laser cutting machine, ‘an amazing bit of kit’ and bought his own to be able to offer signage alongside other building work. Not content with the serious stuff, mark, a fan of street art and graffiti art, put the cutter and spray-paint (not to mention his creativity and sense of fun) into practise on some art work. He then brought them down to the Bingley Gallery where proprietor, David Starley immediately offered the chance to put them in the next show.

Having come full circle, he reckons it’s ‘pretty amazing’ to be back in Bingley doing art and playing around like he did as a young lad. He’s even adopted his schoolboy nickname ‘Bonehead’ as his artist’s name.