Artist Statement
Marnie Glue is a mixed media artist from Hampshire, UK, whose work focuses on the experience of being in the body. She graduated with BA Hons Fine Art from Cardiff School of Art and Design, where she began the “Living in Flesh” project.
Through mediums such as soft sculpture, textiles, painting, printing, writing, and installation her work depicts the physicality of flesh. She uses traditional techniques such as knitting and embroidery to approach more uncomfortable subjects like meat, the human form, and bodily functions. Marnie questions our relationship with our bodies: how we interact with it and objectify it, and how we can better understand the feeling of being inside it.
In 2021, the “Flesh Objects” series began, it focuses on flesh as material to reimagine the domestic space as an extension of the human body. Since then, her work has developed to create wearable items, books, and larger installation pieces within the overarching “Living in Flesh” project.
Her mediums are designed to address her ideas through each of the senses, whilst installations are physical, her art writing focus on the experience through the mind. Where imagination is the artwork beyond the initial language used. This layer of work is presented through books, handouts, standalone texts, and annotated artworks. Each of her outcomes are made with counterparts, for example the recent “Look At Me” print series has a sister text and painting series, whilst her “To Be Flesh” book is an extension of the “Flesh Objects” series and is made to live within the upcoming installation.
Over time Marnie’s work has become more focused on the women’s experience; with today’s very present rise of misogyny, her work has become specific to viewing the body through the female lens. She acknowledges behaviours such as sexualisation and objectification, whilst hoping to draw attention to the viewer’s own body and encourage an appreciation for it.
CV
- King Edward’s School Witley- Interview about "The Body Project"- October 2024-
- King Edward’s School Witley- "The Body Project" Exhibition"- 11th October-16th November 2024- solo exhibition
- King Edward’s School Witley- Artist in Residence- September 2024- present
- Oxmarket Contemporary Gallery- “Wish You Were Here” Exhibition- “The Shooting Star” Painting- 20th August- 1st September 2024
- Petersfield Arts & Crafts Society- Summer Exhibition- “Look At Me” Prints 2, 4 & 5- 22nd – 26th August 2024
- Oxmarket Contemporary Gallery- “Art is(t) Life” Exhibition- “Look At Me” Prints 2, 4 & 5, exhibited 25th June- 7th July 2024
- Zero Space Collective- Instagram Takeover- 23rd- 25th May 2024
- Ripe Magazine- Issue 2- “Look At Me” Print series and Poem, published- 8th March 2024
- Ripe Magazine- Issue 2- “Look At Me” Print series and Poem, published- 8th March 2024
- Cardiff Umbrella- “In The Flesh” Exhibition, 1st- 15th December 2023
- Stroud Village Hall- “Art” performance accompanied exhibition, 30th Nov- 2nd Dec 2023
- Ripe Magazine- Issue 1- Several artworks and writing pieces published, 1st November 2023
- Gallery No.30- "Our Natural World" exhibition January 2024
- Cardiff Umbrella- "in the flesh" exhibition December 2023, curated by Hannah Walters and Rachel Head
- Lion and the Unicorn- exhibition to accompany "ART" performance at Stroud Village Hall- November 2023
- Ripe- November 2023 publication
-Gallery No.30- "Configurations" exhibition May 2023
- Gallery No.30- Curating the "Celebration of Life" exhibition for local artists- January 2023
- Petersfield Arts and Crafts Exhibition- Betty Haggard Sculpture Award- 23rd August 2022
- Gallery No.30- "HUMAN. Flesh and Narrative" Exhibition- 25th June- 31st July 2022
- Gallery No. 30- displaying "Meat Chair" and other "Flesh Objects" pieces- January- February 2022
- STOA Collective- "Catalyst" online exhibition- 16th March 2021
- The Student Gallery- April 2021 Publication
- Radio Talk with Pitch Radio/ Radio Cardiff- 10th June 2021-
- Finale 2021 Show Artist Talk- 16th June 2021
- TSDAP- July 2021 publication
- STOA Talk- on Instagram- 7th July 2021-
- First Class Honours at Cardiff School of Art and Design- September 2018- June 2021
- Helen Gregory Award Scholarship- 2020
- The Alton Decorative and Fine Art’s Society Scholarship for Excellence in Art- 2018
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