Mark Cocks is the Head of School of Photography & Video and has been lecturing at Swansea Metropolitan University since 1997. He graduated with First Class BA (Hons) in 1996 and in 2003 gained an MA in Fine Art at Cardiff (UWIC). Currently he is writing a PhD on the implications of digital technology within photographic higher education.

Research interests investigate photographic art practice/process and photographic/art & design education.

Selected publication, exhibitions and residencies

Residencies/educational workshops

Sky-lines from the Earth - Swansea Council for Voluntary Service (2007)
Educational Projects worker - The Townhill Photographic Arts Partnership (Developing the `Townhill Parish Map Project`), Swansea (1997/98) [Funded by The Arts Council Wales, S.I.H.E. & The City and County of Swansea]
Photographer In Residence - Townhill Primary School (1998)
Photographer In Residence - Ysgol Crug Glas, Swansea (1997) [Funded by The Arts Council Wales & The City and County of Swansea]
Photo Workshop - Counterpoint Arts Centre, Swansea (1997)
West Glamorgan Deaf Children`s Society Photography workshop -Counterpoint Arts Centre, Swansea (1997)

Exhibitions

`The Garden` - The Print Room, The Photographers` Gallery, London (1999)
`England Winners...!` - The Watershed Media Centre, Bristol (1998)
`The Beach Collection` - The Watershed Media Centre, Bristol & The Glynn Vivien Gallery, Swansea (1994)

Selected Group Exhibitions

Surveillance - South Hill Park, Bracknell (2007-08)
‘Idolotry' - Oriel Canfas, Cardiff (2007)
‘Titled' (Experimental film work) - Mission Gallery, Swansea (2006)
‘Final Season at the Vetch' - Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea (2006)
‘Football Fever' - Yam Gallery, Truro (2004)
‘MA' - Oriel Canfas, Cardiff (2003)
‘Ida Branson Trust exhibition 2003' - Atkinson Gallery, Somerset (2003)
`Paradise Park` - Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea (2000)
`Art at 100` - Hammerson Gallery, London (1999/2000)
`The Word` - Addison Wesley Longman Gallery, London (1997/98)
`illuminate.` The Ysgol Crug Glas Residency - The Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea & S.I.H.E. Swansea (1997)
`Images With A Twist` - The Photo-Arte Gallery, London (1996)
`The Royal Photographic, 137th Annual International Print Exhibition` - National touring exhibition (1993)
`Somerset, A Place Through Time` - `Take Art!`, Touring exhibition (1989)
`In Sight of Land` - Portfolio Gallery, London (1988)

Selected Publications

The Vetch - CLASI (2005)
`Paradise Park` - Seren (2000)

Commissions & Published Work

The Independent On Sunday Review
The Sunday Times Magazine
The New Scientist Magazine
Country Living
Nursing Times
The Big Issue
Penguin Books
Hodder & Stoughton
Harper-Collins
Faber & Faber
Routledge
Virgin Records
The Pencil Box Design Group
Omni Communications

(Represented by `Millennium Images`, London)