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08/29/2026
Shot with 35mm film by Britt [ 2britt1 ], Permanent Mark’s longtime right-hand mate.
In the lead-up to ‘Five Lives in One’, we spent some time talking with Permanent Mark [ Mark Walters ] about the work he’s preparing for the exhibition, the different mediums that have shaped his practice, and the experiences that continue to find their way into what he’s making today.
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Mark was born in Libya to a father from London and a mother from South Africa, and spent much of his childhood in Algeria. Long before he ever picked up a tufting gun, rugs were already part of his visual world. He remembers visiting markets as a kid and being surrounded by them—patterns, colors, textures, and craftsmanship that he says became ingrained in his DNA. The road back to rugs wasn’t direct.
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About eight years ago, Mark was living in Spain when he lost a bar he owned and found himself broke and at one of the lowest points of his life. He came across a silkscreen table and started making prints. The work sold. He made his rent. More importantly, it confirmed that tattooing, the profession he had practiced for three decades, wasn’t the only way forward. From there, one thing kept leading to another.
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Printmaking moved into collage. Collage moved into sculpture. Cyanotype followed, including large-scale works inspired in part by David Hockney’s photographic practice, which Mark began painting over and pushing further. The mediums changed because Mark changed with them. Staying in one lane has never suited him.
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Tufting arrived almost by accident. After returning from Spain following his mother’s burial, Mark met a woman at a bar who told him she made rugs. The conversation was enough. He bought yarn, got a tufting machine, and started figuring it out.
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What began as another medium to explore eventually became a substantial part of his practice. Even then, making rugs wasn’t enough. Mark began asking what else tufting could become. That led him to furniture, incorporating his textile work into wooden chairs and benches and bringing multiple forms of making into a single object.
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