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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.
This limited edition featured in Mann' solo exhibition A Room Of One's Own at The Museum of Classical Archaeology in Cambridge (2025)
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.
Terracotta cast head with sculpted headpiece
24 x 18 x 17.5cm approx
Limited edition of 3
2 out of 3 available
£350
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
Cast and hand carved ceramic bud vase
different colours
approx 20 x 11.5 x 11.5 cm
2025
£210 each
Hand finished & hand glazed ceramic planter
Approx 21.5 x 11.5 x 11.5 cm
2025
£230
Cast and Hand Carved
17.75 x 14.5 cm (ranging of sizes)
Various colours, each are unique
2025
£135 to £165 (framed)
Cast and hand carved e tile, framed in floating frame
17.5 x 17.5 (framed) approx
£105 to £185
Cast and hand carved tile, framed in floating frame
17 x 17 (framed) approx
£145 each
Cast and hand carved stoneware
23 x 21 x17 cm
2025
£385
Press molded and hand-carved terracotta plate
45 x 36 x 6cm
£750
Thrown earthenware
16.5 x 23.5 x 23.5 cm
2025
£235
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
Mark Mann designed textile printed in England on silk
90 x 90cm | 40 x 40 cm
£110 | £55
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.
Hand decorated and glazed terracotta large platter with slip inlay and gold lustre inlay
39 x 38 x 6.5 cm
£345
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)
Individually casted and mounted ceramic tiles featuring male cavorting parakeets
55 x 55 cm
2024
£3,150
Mark Mann featured in Attitude Magazine with regards of his solo show in Cambridge
“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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