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Mandy Brannan – Book Artist – Paper Maker

I am a London based hand papermaker, book artist and workshop leader. I research, observe and engage with patterns and images to create a visual language for my multidisciplinary arts practice. Most recently I was the first ‘Arist in Residence’ at the new amazing UCL, Institute of Making at their new campus in Stratford, London.

My paper making practice is influenced by the joy of experimenting with  both found papers as ones that I make using a fusion of Western and Japanese styles of sheet formation.

Manipulated paper making fibres: Round window influenced by architecture plans and images

Manipulated paper making fibres: Round window influenced by Japanese architecture plans and images

Rounds: Artists Book, Plan of. Architecture Plans

Rounds: Artists’ Book

Rounds: pages

Rounds: pages

Rounds: sample of pages

Rounds: pages

 

 

Architecture: 30 St Mary Axe

Architecture: 30 St Mary Axe : Diagrid (shortlisted for the RA Academy Summer exhibition.

My main influence, within my book arts practice explores my personal interaction with the architecture of London: both their visual details and their political economic aspects. I have always been intrigued by structural details of architecture and this influence reaches back to the jewellery I designed and created when I pursued the BA Hons 3D Design/Jewellery course atLoughborough College of Art and Design.

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Architecture: 30 St Mary Axe

Highlights of 2017-2024

  • Artist Residency October and November 2024 at Institute of Making, University College London, Stratford
  • Awarded an Arts Society GLA Bursary for a studio at Cockpit Arts, Deptford
  • Papermaking Masterclass – November 2022 and June 2023 – Institute of Making, UCL
  • Taught workshop for the Tate Britain conservators – February 2022
  • Taught 5 day workshop at City and Guilds London Art School – May & October 2021, September 2022, October 2023 and 2024
  • Cut, Fold, Tuck – Book design. College of the Creative Arts, Farnham, March 2020
  • London Craft Festival participant –  Collaboration with Barnard & Westwood Printers. May 2019
  • Festival of Stuff – June 2019 Institute of Making – Papermaking Masterclass, UCL
  • Developed a project for the V & A. ‘Paper Crafts’ published August 2018
  • Inside Terrai Vague – Group gallery exhibition, Fashion Street, London
  • Developed paper using a fusion of Japanese papermaking and textile recycling for a collaboration with the London College of Fashion, UAL

  • Art Work in Public Collections

    Tate Britain: Artists’ Book Collection, London
    Victoria & Albert museum, Artists’ Book collection
    Camberwell College of the Arts, UAL, Library Collection
    St Benedict College, Gallery Collection, Minnesota
    University of Southampton, Winchester School of Art Library
    Manchester Metropolitan University, Book Arts Collection
    Leeds University: Brotherton Library Collection
    Neil Crawford – Artists’ Book Collection
    Maria White – Artists’ Book Collection
    Robert Bolick – Artists’ Book Collection

    Publications/On-line Publications

    2024: Article in Anthology: Ten years of ‘Turn the Page’ written By Maria White
    2020/22: Books-on-Books.com
    2019: Wallpaper Magazine, March Edition
    2018: Paper Crafts: A Makers Guide, Victoria & Albert Museum publication
    2015: British Artists’ Book Makers, BCF Books

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