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MARK MANN

Mark Mann draws on classical iconography and queer histories. Norfolk based artist, Mark Mann works with ceramics, textiles and bronze. His work is highly inspired with his fascination to nature. 


Through his artistic practice he reveals histories that have long been overlooked and addresses concealed and ugly realities to translate them into beautifully crafted artworks. Mark’s works subtly show the discomfort of queer pasts by juxtaposing it with stunning, luxurious artworks; this allows each piece to become a monument in its own right. Much of Mark’s work explores themes that emerge from domestic interiors created by homosexual men in a time before the legalisation of homosexuality in England. Mark is continuously influenced by the atrocities that are held in queer history, but also by the strength of the queer interior. Mark’s artworks confront the viewer, challenging pre-conceived notions surrounding homosexuality, whilst allowing a joy to be found in their beautiful and captivating nature.


Mark completed his MA in textile design, for which he received the Vice Chancellors post graduate prize, following this, he was then selected as emerging artist at the East Anglia Art Fund’s Heritage exhibition in 2018. 


From private homes, to Cambridge's museum to Oxford's boutique hotel, Mann's work has been shown and collected all over England, Europe and North America.

TRENDING

for the 2nd time in 2025 mark's work features in a magazine

for the 2nd time in 2025 mark's work features in a magazine

for the 2nd time in 2025 mark's work features in a magazine

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ANTINOUS ARMY LIMITED EDITION

for the 2nd time in 2025 mark's work features in a magazine

for the 2nd time in 2025 mark's work features in a magazine

This limited edition featured in Mann' solo  exhibition A Room Of One's Own at The Museum of Classical Archaeology in Cambridge (2025) 

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selected works

Hyacinthus Stand

Sculpted and wheel thrown terracotta  with oil cloth glaze

26 x 18 x 18 cm approx

£310


Hyacinthus was the lover of the God Apollo in Greek Mythology. After Hyacinthus chose Apollo over the God of the Western winds, Zephyrus, in a fit of jealousy he killed Hyacinthus by blowing a discus into his head; the hyacinth flower was said to have risen, or been created by Apollo from his blood upon his death.

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Beware the sods Triptych

2025

Cast and hand-carved tiles

40 x 30.5 cm (framed)

£895

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Hyacinthus Stand Limited Edition

Terracotta cast head with sculpted headpiece

24 x 18 x 17.5cm approx


Limited edition of 3

2 out of 3 available

£350

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Fig Leaves

Cast and hand carved earthenware

Small & Large sizes 

various colours

2025

£120/£250


Modelled on the fig leaf that was commissioned by the V&A to cover the David Statue prior to Queen Victoria's visit in 1857

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Hyacinthus Vases

Cast and hand carved ceramic bud vase 

different colours

approx 20 x 11.5 x 11.5 cm

2025

£210 each

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Hyacinthus planters

Hand finished & hand glazed ceramic planter

Approx 21.5 x 11.5 x 11.5 cm

2025

£230

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HYACINTHUS STAND

Cast and hand carved earthenware

31 x 27 x27 cm

2025

£450

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the wrestlers

Hand Carved

24 x 14cm

2025

£225

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beautiful failures, queer fragments

beautiful failures, queer fragments

Cast and hand carved fragments

Varying sizes & prices (£75 to £210)

POA for specific piece

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selected works - paintings - Oil on board - 33.5 x 45.5 cm

Verdure's Embrace - £675

A Vase of Unspeakable Things - £650

Interior Blooms - £675

The Cup Bearer - £650

Where Water Remembers - £675

As He Saw Himself - £675

Flightless - £650

Beware the Sods tile unframed II

Cast and Hand Carved

17.75 x 14.5 cm (ranging of sizes)

Various colours, each are unique

2025

£135 to £165 (framed)

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Carnation/ Floral tiles

Cast and hand carved e tile, framed in floating frame

17.5 x 17.5 (framed) approx

£105 to £185

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Antinous tiles

Antinous tiles

Cast and hand carved tile, framed in floating frame

17 x 17 (framed) approx

£145 each

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ceramics vases & bowls

Terracotta hand built pot - 10. 5 x 13 x 11 cm - £165

Wheel thrown stoneware - 8.5 x 23 cm - £280

Lucky Roman Phallic Vase - 14 x 13 x 13cm - £180

Thrown earthenware - 13.5 x 10.5 x 10.5 cm - £60

Thrown earthenware - 13.5 x 10.5 x 10.5 cm - £60

antinous head in blue

i heard you in the garden (adam & Steve)

i heard you in the garden (adam & Steve)

Cast and hand carved stoneware

23 x 21 x17 cm

2025

£385

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i heard you in the garden (adam & Steve)

i heard you in the garden (adam & Steve)

i heard you in the garden (adam & Steve)

Press molded and hand-carved terracotta plate

45 x 36 x 6cm

£750

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Desire's reflection

i heard you in the garden (adam & Steve)

Desire's reflection

Thrown earthenware

16.5 x 23.5 x 23.5 cm

2025

£235

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Glipses of glory

Desire's reflection

Side 1: screen with 216 handmade terracotta tiles

Side 2: hand screen printed textile designed by Mann

169 cm tall varying width and depth 

£7,500

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Mark Mann textiles

Mark Mann designed textile printed in England on silk

90 x 90cm | 40 x 40 cm

£110 | £55

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antinous head in red stoneware

Cast and hand carved red stoneware

23 x 21 x17 cm

2025

£385

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Desire’s Reflection

Desire’s Reflection

Desire’s Reflection

Ceramic Bud Vase Thrown and hand glazed

£220 each

2 available

 

Narcissus, the myth of self-love, became a symbol for forbidden love between men—where longing is mirrored but never fulfilled. In the cut-out of these bud vases the viewer can see the silhouette of two faces looking towards each other.

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Large penis platter

Desire’s Reflection

Desire’s Reflection

Hand decorated and glazed terracotta large platter with slip inlay and gold lustre inlay

39 x 38 x 6.5 cm

£345

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Winged Phallic Stand

Thrown and hand carved

16 x 25 x 25 cm

£225

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acts of gross indecency poem

Poem by James McDermott & hand screen printed on Mann’s textile

51 x 39 cm

2025

£180 (with a proportion of the sales going to AKT, the National LGBTQ+ Youth Homeless Charity)

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pandemonium

Individually casted and mounted ceramic tiles featuring male cavorting parakeets

55 x 55 cm

2024

£3,150

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Beware The Sods

Cast and hand carved earthenware tiles

84 x 58 cm

2024

£3,450

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acts of gross indecency plate

Slip cast plate with copper oxide details

25 x 25 x 3cm 

£130

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Ganymede Vase bronze

Cast and hand-carved earthenwaree

41 x 26 x 18 cm

2025

£450

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Ganymede Vase Verdure

Cast and hand-carved earthenwaree

41 x 26 x 18 cm

2025

£450

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Acts of Gross Indecency Urinal

Cast bronze

180 x 61 cm

£18,500

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textiles / wallpapers by mann

The Garden After Wallpaper - POA for commissions

Invation Textile - Hand screen printed using five different screens printed onto high-quality luxury linen

Spring Undoing Wallpaper - POA for commissions

SELECTED PRESS

for the 2nd time in 2025 mark's work features in a magazine

for the 2nd time in 2025 mark's work features in a magazine

for the 2nd time in 2025 mark's work features in a magazine

read the article

for the 2nd time in 2025 mark's work features in a magazine

for the 2nd time in 2025 mark's work features in a magazine

Mark Mann featured in Attitude Magazine with regards of his solo show in Cambridge

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Mark Mann states:

 “I enjoy the idea that I use finely crafted facades to conceal ugly realities within my design work. As Alan Downs states in his book The Velvet Rage (2006): ‘As gay men we hide our truth behind the beauty we manufacture…we decorate the world, we decorate our lives and our bodies all in an effort to hide our real selves from the world…we are professionals in remodelling ugly truths into high fashion dreams.’'

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