Mark Denton Esq - Donut

Donut, 2019

Mark Dento Esq

Following his less than glamorous starting career as a paste-up artist on the magazine ‘Knitter’s Digest’, Mark Denton Esq secured a job as an assistant typographer and visualiser at the London office of the American advertising agency, Leo Burnett. Less than a decade later, Mark was the Creative Director of his own agency and one of the most gifted Art Directors on earth.

Then came a foray into directing TV commercials and a return to his first love, graphic design. Always seeking new forms of self-expression, Mark kept busy designing everything in his world. Clothes, jewellery, wallpaper, furniture, the labels on his tins of beans; nothing was spared his eye.

Grasping every opportunity to expand further into his artistic universe, he wore many different many hats; Mexican-wrestling fight Promoter, book and magazine Publisher, theatrical Producer and male model to name a few.

Over his expansive career, his artistic flights of fancy have been exhibited worldwide, notably at ‘The Power of the Poster’ exhibition at the V&A and as a ‘living exhibit’ under the name of Nobby Bottomshuffle (one of his many alter-egos) at the National Football Museum in Manchester.

In 2018 two of Mark’s works were chosen for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in London and went on to be featured on BBC TV.