Marnie Glue is a mixed media artist from Hampshire whose work focuses on the experience of being in the body. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree at Cardiff School of Art and Design, where she began the “Living in Flesh” project.

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Through mediums such as soft sculpture, textiles, painting, writing, and installation her work depicts the physicality of flesh and highlights often overlooked details. 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.

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The “Flesh Objects” series, started in 2021 and uses flesh as material to reimagine the domestic space as an extension of the human body. Since then her work has developed to create more wearable items and larger installation pieces within the “Living in Flesh” project. Recently, Marnie’s work has become more focused on the women’s experience, specifically looking at the woman's body and viewing it through the female lens. She finds, that the objectification of this has more interesting questions to be discussed, such as how to take ownership of our bodies and feel empowerment, whilst addressing the sexualisation that can come with this. 
 
Inspired by Dorothea Tanning’s Surrealist soft sculptures, Jenny Saville’s distorted documentation of the body, and Louise Bourgeois’ mixed media sculpture pieces. Marnie hopes to draw awareness to the viewers’ own body and encourage an appreciation for it.