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Mandy Brannan – Book Artist – Paper Maker

Rounds: Artists Book, Plan of. Architecture Plans

Rounds: pages

Rounds: sample of pages

Round window influenced by architecture plans and images created with manipulated paper making fibres

I am a London based book artist, papermaker and workshop leader. I research, observe and engage with patterns and images to create my visual arts language. Currently I teach ‘One on One’ bespoke workshops at Cockpit Arts Studio, Deptford and, recently, was the Artist in Residence at the amazing new Institute of Making, UCL Stratford.

Diagrid: 30 St Mary's Axe

30 St Mary Axe in London - Diagrid

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 at Loughborough College of Art and Design.

 

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 – 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 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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