Marianne Spurr is a British / Japanese artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. She earned her BA in Fine Art at the Ruskin school of Art, University of Oxford, and an MA in painting at the Royal college of Art in London. She has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally, and holds work in numerous private collections. In 2025 she will launch an experimental textile design and ceramic studio with a focus on slow craft, embroidery and repurposed heritage textiles.
For further information please contact: mspurr.studio@gmail.com
Statement
Marianne Spurr works fluidly across painting, textiles, ceramics, and found materials, following an intuitive, material-led approach to making and dialogue with the physical world. Her studio practice is rooted in experimentation— using collected and crafted materials—and unfolds through free association, guided by touch, memory, and quiet observation. For her, making is a way of thinking, a process-led inquiry shaped by material encounters and open-ended curiosity.
Her work reflects a sensitivity to context and interconnection. Found objects and handmade forms are brought together in groupings or arrangements that evoke dialogues—between materials, between past and present, between the natural and the human-made. These groupings suggest relationships that are at once deliberate and ephemeral, poetic and grounded.
Themes of ephemerality, transformation, and the cyclical nature of life are central to her practice. Through pattern, geometry, and the careful placement and reordering of objects, she explores the tension between structure and impermanence. Each work invites reflection on the interwoven nature of all things—the unseen threads that link objects, environments, and lived experience.