Mary Branson's practice stems from an examination of the role of the social, religious or commercial rituals within everyday life. Mary uses familiar objects and materials. Experimenting with scale, light, colour and multiplicity, she transforms functional items into challenging new environments that are stimulating, playful. Through being free from the constraints of the gallery these items question the existing polemics concerning art and the space it inhabits. 

  

Her subjects for this 'amplification of the everyday' have ranged from tents, bird boxes, short-wave radio transmissions, fishing rods, and the act of communion.  Her achievements include working in collaboration with Marks Barfield (architects of the new gallery ‘The Lighhtbox’ in Woking) and she was nominated for the Becks Futures prize 2005.

Guildford House Gallery
155 High Street
Guildford
Surrey
GU1 3AJ

Tel: 01483 444740
Fax: 01483 444742
Email: guildfordhouse@guildford.gov.uk

Open Tuesday to Saturday.  10am to 4.45pm.  Admission Free