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Mark Mann and Rebecca Mowse

A Room of One’s Own - Artist Proof

A1 Giclée print

Framed

60 x 85 cm

£220

"As gay men, we hide our truth behind the beauty we manufacture... We decorate the world, our lives, and our bodies to conceal our real selves. We are professionals in remodelling ugly truths into high-fashion dreams." – Downs, A. (2006) This photograph is testament to the bravery of the Queer interior.

Mark Mann and Rebecca Mowse

Fig Leaf - Artist Proof

A1 Giclée print

Framed

60 x 85 cm

£220

The fig leaf is an object that tells the story of censorship, often associated with the museum setting.

Mark Mann and Rebecca Mowse

Pose - Artist Proof

A1 Giclée print

Framed

60 x 85 cm

£220

In this photograph, a figure strikes a bold, unapologetic pose, body sculpted like a classical statue—muscular, poised, and defiant.

 Mark Mann 

30 x 23 x 22cm

£450

Handmade ceramic sculpture depicting Hyacinthus, who 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.

 Mark Mann 

11 x 8 cm each

£65

300 press moulded and hand-built sculptures in the shape of Antinous, emperor Hadrian’s lover, the boy-god who became a timeless icon for the LGBTQ+ community. Mann has created an army of Antinous heads through A 7-year exploration of clay bodies and glaze chemistry creating totally unique works. 100 of these heads form a limited-edition series available to purchase during the exhibition.

The 100 pieces from the limited ed are available for sale on our website

*if you have seen a piece that isn't in the limited edition, contact us to arrange payment *

Mark Mann 

14 x 13 x 13 cm

£180

Ceramic thrown vase with hand carved penises featured on the surface. This vase is alluding to the vases that survive from Ancient Rome and Greece which were sometimes erotic and explicit, Mann is playing with the idea that now we do not consider the erotic past in Classical art.

Mark Mann 

 40 x 40cm

£55 each

Mark Mann designed textile printed in England on silk

Mark Mann 

 90 x 90 cm

£110

Mark Mann designed textile printed in England on silk

Mark Mann 

90 x 90cm

£110

Mark Mann designed textile printed in England on silk

Mark Mann 

90 x 90cm

£110

Mark Mann designed textile printed in England on silk

 Mark Mann 

16 x 16 cm 

£175

Framed in a floating frame which allows a gap around the raised up artwork

Cast tile depicting two male cavorting parakeets.

Mark Mann 

 25 x 16 cm

£185 

 Framed in a floating frame which allows a gap around the raised up artwork

Cast tile featuring a carnation, which is a flower tied to the symbolism of love and desire. The carnation also took on a symbolism of gay identity when depicted in green, a meaning that was popularised by Oscar Wilde.

Mark Mann 

55 x 55cm

£3450

In a world hostile to homosexual men, cottaging and cruising became an outlet for connection. This piece featuring individually casted and mounted ceramic tiles, references the 1950s scare films warning of the "dangers" of homosexuals. In the absence of decoration and imagery that represented gay men, queer meaning was found in what was around them.

Mark Mann 

Varying sizes ranging from 15 – 35 cm 

£3,750

"Beautiful Failures: Where Broken Fragments Rebuild a Lost Queer History." This collection includes accidental failures, kiln god disasters, deliberately broken works, and reconstructed fragments. 

 Mark Mann 

54 x 79 cm

£3150

This work is made up of individually casted and mounted tiles to create a piece which challenges the shameful notion of seeking love, sex, and connection in public toilets. In many of Mann’s works finely crafted facades conceal the harsh realities of persecution and hostility, serving as a decorative monument to forbidden loves. Shame plays a large role in the creative work of gay artists and designers and this piece combats shame found around these desires. 

Mark Mann 

Cast earthenware tiles in an antique frame 

67 x 50.5 cm

£2650

This work features cast earthenware tiles housing the words ‘Acts of Gross Indecency’, in reference to the criminal charge men faced for homosexual acts in England. In their deep bottle green colour and rectangular shape, the tiles are reminiscent of those found in public toilets, through this Mann is drawing on the significance of the public space for the Queer community and has contrasted the discomfort in these space by encasing them in a luxurious antique frame.

Mark Mann 

Slip cast plate with copper oxide details

25 x 25 x 3cm 

£130

This slip cast plate with copper oxide details features the words ‘Acts of Gross Indecency’ almost branded into its surface. Beautifully decorative, it juxtaposes the trauma linked to these words with a delicate, decorative pattern and its sense of domestic comfort.

Mark Mann 

Screen with 216 handmade terracotta tiles

169 cm tall varying width and depth 

£7,500

This screen is made up of 216 handmade and glazed ceramic tiles, on one side, and on the other, one of Mark’s hand screen-printed textiles. This piece draws on the history that the queer community has with public and yet hidden spaces, by making a private object, such as a screen with a glory hole in it, into an opulent and luxurious item to be admired and seen. Mann is combatting the censorship and shame tied up with British Queer histories.

Mark Mann 

Screenprinted chaise

76 x 71 x 63 (approx) cm 

£4,600

Mark Mann 

Cast bronze urinal and wall panel

180 x 61 cm

18 500

Mann’s cast bronze urinal is a monumental work featuring a repetitive pattern of carnations across the top panel, and an intimate scene of male parakeets on the urinal section. Mann often uses symbols and motifs to draw out a deeper meaning, in this case he is alluding to the Queer histories of public spaces and reclaiming them as objects of beauty and admiration.

His use of symbolisms is notable in the use of carnations, a flower used to symbolise love and one which was popularised by Oscar Wilde as a symbol of gay identity when the flower appeared green. 

Mark Mann 

 40 x 22cm each

£850

Mann’s cast and hand carved vases featuring Ganymede who was described by the Classical writer Homer as the most handsome mortal and in the Iliad, it is described how he was abducted by Zeus to serve the Gods, after Zeus fell in love with Ganymede and acting as an eagle carried him from earth to Mount Olympus to become immortal. Ganymede and this myth have become symbols of Queer desire especially in times when artists and collectors could not be openly Queer.

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Mark Mann  

approx 32 x 27 x 7 cm

 £250 each

Mann’s cast and hand-carved fig leaves are individually glazed and carved yet are all 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. This link alludes to the censorship of the male body and the desire it held, especially in Victorian times when it was illegal to carry out homosexual acts as a male.

Each leaf is unique and not two are the same !

  Mark Mann 

approx 17 x 14 x 6 cm

£120 each

Mann’s cast and hand-carved fig leaves are individually glazed and carved yet are all 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. This link alludes to the censorship of the male body and the desire it held, especially in Victorian times when it was illegal to carry out homosexual acts as a male.

Each leaf is unique and not two are the same !

Mark Mann   

17 .5 x 17.5 cm

£145 each

Framed in a floating frame which allows a gap around the raised up artwork

This series of tiles by Mann features an icon of Queer mythology and is a contemporary reminder of Queer love throughout history, hidden but in plain sight. Antinous was emperor Hadrian’s homosexual lover, who was famously so beautiful and youthful, that upon his death, Hadrian had him deified and named a city after him; he has long been considered an icon for the LGBTQ+ community.