About The Society of Play

Some people collect games. Some people play them until the box falls apart.

Artist Mark Hanlon destroys them.

Not out of disrespect - out of love. The Society of Play takes the games that shaped us, the decks that defined friendships, the boards that caused arguments at Christmas, and transforms them into artworks that belong on walls rather than forgotten on shelves.

The scuffs stay. The wear stays. The evidence of every argument over the rules, every late night, every "just one more game" stays.

Because that's where the real value was all along. Not in the cardboard. In what happened around it.

Welcome to The Society of Play.

About Mark

Mark has spent twenty-five years making things professionally - rugs, tapestries, paintings, wall works.

Narrative has always been at the centre of it.

Games have run quietly alongside all of it. Fantasy worlds as a kid. Board games with friends and family as an adult. The same instinct for shared experience, just with different pieces on the table.

The Society of Play is where those two things finally collided.

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