THE ARTIST

My name is Marc Craig and I am the artist behind IT VOIDS. This website is essentially serves as a portal space shared by my many projects that explore my growing obsession with liminal space, how the individual subjective perspective extends into the shared objective reality, and back again! The project has been ongoing now since October 2025 and is based on my observations of the creative process as experienced in Leake Street, the legal graffiti tunnel underneath Waterloo Station where I was the artist in residence for three years. Those observations led to a profound  personal insight into how creativity works and despite some interesting (and welcome!) dead ends it has brought me to this moment writing this introduction to you.

The temptation I have found is to throw all the contents of the project in one go and it would seem that is a futile exercise because not only does it overwhelm people but also it loses the thread which in this case is a simple cycle that not only plays out in Leake Street 24 hours a day every day of the year but in all aspects of creative expression. This cycle I have called SEED/FORM/VOID/FORM/SEED or simply SFVFS. Below you will see my first conceptual artwork introducing SFVFS called rather aptly THE SFVFS CYCLE (does what it says on the tin!)  It explains the process in a visual and  poetic way and hints at the underlying maths that serves as its backbone. If the series of equations mean anything to you I would love for you to get in touch.

This is by no means a polished artwork as the work it seems is never done, when one door closes another opens and it is easy to get lost in the expanding rabbit hole that soon becomes a warren. All I ask of you is what I ask of myself, and that is keep an open mind and a healthy sceptical footing. The balance between those two is the amazing liminal space that never ceases to amaze me as it teases at the treasures within. The project that gave the impulse for IT VOIDS to actually happen is MIND THE MAP, my collaboration with 55 artists working on 110 artworks and I have used it as an example in THE SFVFS CYCLE. The direct links to that project are also below.

More artwork incoming.

MIND THE MAP was where it all started. A wonderful introduction in a vast capacity to how SFVFS works. The idea came from using my late father’s collection of maps that he had kept for years. My father always said that everything had a use and I often teased him that if everything he had colected for a use didn’t find a use then technically that was hoarding! So when I found the maps I decided to find a use for them an sdduenly found myself inviting a lot of artists to collaborate with me, 55 of them in total. Initially it was an idea that I would start a map artwork and they would finish it but I soon relapsed that it was only fair for those roles to swap so I ended up creating 110 collaborative artworks which you can see in the exhibition. You can also buy the originals and get prints at https://itvoids.bigcartel.com