Annabel Munn

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15 Jul

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Annabel Munn is a British artist, whose work naturally moves between art and craft. She graduated from the University of the West of England, Bristol in 1990, studying under Walter Keeler, Mo Jupp and Nicholas Homoky. During this period, Annabel specialised in large hand-built and coiled sculptural ceramics. Exploring the crossover between art and ceramics, her final piece was a bronze sculpture. Following this, Annabel chose to move back into ceramics. Her most recent work, ‘Modern Relics’, looks at archaeology and memories as an excavation of the mind.

The repetitive nature of building a form with many smaller pieces is suggestive of musical rhythm. Interruptions, in the form of larger slabs or openings, are indicative of pathways, gateways and views. These pieces are fired multiple times to subtly develop the surface with matt and semi-vitreous slips, often including small areas of glazed highlights with abstract textural drawing in underglaze.
Her most recent work, a series of orb-shaped sculptures, was created in response to the exhibition theme 'Almanac'. They act as documentation of a year that has been both extraordinary and confused, joyful and challenging, ordered and muddled, hilarious and banal. Tactile and meant to be handled, they serve as reminders and records of past moments and likely events of the future.
nnabel Munn has been featured in ‘A History of 20th Century British Tiles’, by Chris Blanchett and ‘The Tile’, by Kenneth Clarke, MBE. She has also produced illustrations for the Cover of, ‘After Trelawny’, by Naomi Brandel and ‘The Twat in the Flat, by Geoff Allnutt.

Annabel also created the logo and set designs for the show ‘Flown’, by award winning international circus Pirates of the, Carabina, (POC). She continues to collaborate with POC working on set designs for their ‘Relentless Unstoppable Human Machine,’ show to be first seen at Roundhouse, London.