Metro Gallery presents A Guide To Inner Light by Mark Templeton

Artist Statement

A GUIDE TO INNER LIGHT is a solo photography exhibition by Canadian media artist Mark Templeton. The series features a collection of Risograph prints, constructed from a discarded box of slides and 1970s and 80s meditation cassettes discovered in a library.

Artist Reception: Thursday, June 11 at 5:30PM — followed by a screening of Alice in the Cities at 6:45PM, chosen by the Gallery artist. Reception is free for all, if you would like to attend the screening please purchase tickets here.

Exhibition runs from June 1 — 30, 2026.

Artist Bio

Mark Templeton is a Canadian media artist who has been actively releasing albums and performing live for nearly twenty years. In the spring of 2018, he released his first photobook, Distorted Tourist, which included a series of five one-sided flexi disc records. In 2021, his photobook and cassette, Ocean Front Property, was co-published by The Ice Plant and Graphical, the latter which he established in 2015 as a platform for his audiovisual works. Ocean Front Property was one of the winners of the Belfast Photo Festival OPEN SUBMISSION Award, it was featured in France’s national newspaper Le Monde Magazine and was long listed for the RDS Visual Arts Awards. In 2026, Templeton released his third photobook and limited edition cassette, A GUIDE TO INNER LIGHT. Published under his Rev. LV moniker, the project was entirely assembled and constructed by Mark Templeton.