The Charcoal Dreamers 2019-2022

The Charcoal Dreamers, 2019–2021

These drawings were created as backdrops for the photographic series The Immortal Mortals. Made in dense black ink on paper, they recall early gestures of image-making: silhouettes, animals, figures raising their arms as if in ritual or offering.

They are not illustrations of a narrative, but atmospheres, fields in which presence gathers. What feels ancient here is less imitation than instinct: the impulse to make a mark, even when no one is watching.

Exhibited:

Love Between The Atoms. SAUVAGE, Düsseldorf, Germany 2021

The Immortal Mortals - Elephant Backdrop drawing

  • Pen and Indian Ink
  • 70 x 50 cm
  • 2021

Stage back drop

The Immortal Mortals - 111 Backdrop drawing

  • Pen and Indian ink
  • 70 x 50 cm
  • 2021
Mark Alexander's ink artwork: Young boy standing contemplatively in a textured cave.

The Immortal Mortals - I Backdrop drawing

  • Indian ink
  • 70 x 50 cm
  • 2020-1
Pen and ink drawing by Mark Alexander; ethereal figure with curly hair spreads arms amidst textured background.

The Immortal Mortals - iX Backdrop drawing

  • Indian ink
  • 70 x 50 cm
  • 2021
Mark Alexander pen and ink: Deer by water in cave, intricate grid shading with faint overhead figures.

The Immortal Mortals - XV Backdrop drawing

  • Pen and Indian Ink on Paper
  • 70 x 50 cm
  • 2021
Mark Alexander's ink sketch: Two giraffes amid patterned background with repeating handprints.

The Immortal Mortals -V1111 Backdrop drawing

  • Indian ink
  • 70 x 50 cm
  • 2020
Mark Alexander's artwork: Elderly knight in shadows of a cave, narrowly missed by a beam of light.

The Immortal Mortals - Backdrop drawing

  • Pen and Indian ink
  • 70 x 50 cm
  • 2020

The Immortal Mortals -V1 Backdrop drawing

  • Pen and Indian ink
  • 70 x 50 cm
  • 2021