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 FRUITS, 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 that arises from direct dialogue with the physical world. Her studio practice is rooted in experimentation—using both 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-driven inquiry shaped by material encounters and open-ended curiosity.
Attuned to the natural world, her work reflects a sensitivity to context and interconnection. Natural forms, weathered surfaces, and organic rhythms often guide the gestures and compositions in her work. Found objects and handmade elements are brought together in groupings that evoke quiet dialogues—between materials, between past and present, between the natural and the human-made. These arrangements suggest relationships that are at once deliberate and ephemeral, poetic yet 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. Her work invites reflection on the interwoven nature of all things—the unseen threads that bind body and landscape, object and environment, memory and matter.