Wikipedia reports Mark Hollis as retired from the music industry. No great surprise there.
And sadly no more than that was unearthed about his activities, but I did find this -
http://www.furia.com/page.cgi?type=twas&id=twas0163

Which I found both beautiful and baffling.

And this -
http://open.spotify.com/album/7z360z2CHNNfWqT0MF1c2T

Which is an album made by Tim Freese-Greene under the name Heligoland - I have played it once and enjoyed it a lot. Very much in Talk Talk/shoegaze territory.

There are websites out there which update every four years or so, some are listed at the bottom of the Wiki page.

Thanks very much for posting this.
I think Talk Talk's last 2 albums are incredible. I bought 'Mark Hollis' a while ago and I never really got a lot out of it on first & second listen. Tried again a month or 2 ago (home alone, sat expectantly on the sofa between the speakers) & just ended up getting restless again. I think that it might be an idea to keep it next to my stereo ready for some more quiet time when I can give it some of that 'ferocious concentration' that I'm quite prepared to believe(and really hopeful)will release its treasures.
There's not many musicians that I'd be this patient with but I can't help but feeling that at least part of the reasons for my lack of engagement with it is down to me.

Digging back through the Wiki reference, it appears that Hollis' former manager, Keith Aspden, made the statement that he had "retired from active duty" in 2000. Other than some production work for Anja Gabarek a year later, he really has disappeared. He always appeared to hate the music *business*. I suspect that problems with the solo album may have contributed to the decision to retire.

The solo album was initally called "Mountains of the Moon" and was a planned release under the Talk Talk name. Hollis spent two years recording off and on with producer and musician Warne Livesey. Livesey's website refers to an experience of "utter frustration" at the end of which they didn't see eye to eye on how the composed pieces should be presented. Hollis then started again with Phill Brown as producer. Brown had produced the final two Talk Talk albums and because of those experiences initally turned the job down. Twice.

On completion Polydor refused to release the album and it was at one point touted to Mo Wax owned by James Lavelle, who had featured Hollis on the 1998 UNKLE release. I believe that Lavelle had previously referred to working with Hollis as "hair tearing". I spot a theme......

The record eventually came out on Polydor as 'Mark Hollis' in 1998. Mr H briefly emerged from the Bat Cave and did a few interviews in a pub round the corner from his house, refused to release singles or play live, took legal action against Vox magazine for comments on smack use, and was generally the uncompromising glum bugger we've all come to revere, before retiring to Wimbledon with his wife and kids. He refused to be interviewed for the Mojo retrospective in 2006. I just love him :)

Both Heliogoland' and 'Mark Hollis' are obvious natural progressions from Laughing Stock, although you would struggle to find two more dissimilar works. However, I would have preferred Tim Friese-Green to have used a session singer as his voice is a little on the, er, thin side.

Cobweb Steve - I think 'Mark Hollis' does initally demand patience. Spirit of Eden was love at first sight for me, but Laughing Stock was more a slow developing relationship, although ultiamately more rewarding. Choosing between the two now would be like deciding whether you loved your mother or father more. At the risk of stretching the analogy to breaking point (and being forced into pseuds corner) think of 'Mark Hollis' as that brilliant, difficult, favourite elder sibling.

You need to be in the mood for it. I'd not played it for ages, and currently it's on all the time. I think the bleak, bitter weather suits it.

I came across the following review of the ill-fated Genesis support gig at Milton Keynes.

"It was obvious from the start that it was a mismatch. It rained all day long and the overpriced, under strength 'beer' was going through peoples inner workings at a frightening speed. Empty bottles, long cues for disgusting toliets and full bladders can only spell bad news. The middle age hippies and proto yuppies were not in the mood for noncy upstart synth bands. They wanted the real thing; an old noncy synth band.

The wee-wee bottles started flying almost immediately Talk Talk walked on stage. I recall the singer saying something like 'You'll like this one. It's a Pink Floyd song' and the crowd half cheered. Somewhat missing the intended irony in the comment, there were several 'That ain't no Hank Williams song' looks between the throng once they realised he was being sarcastic. Then the bottling really started. Talk Talk left the stage after two or three songs as I recall."

Oh dear.

They did improve! And I'm unashamed to admit that I like the first album even if 60,000 incontinent prog rockers disagreed at the time. Pearls before swine and all that.