Maker in Residence - Mandy Brannan

This autumn, we wel­come Mandy Bran­nan – a Lon­don-based book artist and paper­maker — to our Strat­ford space. 

Mandy will be in res­id­ence at the Insti­tute of Mak­ing Strat­ford for six weeks, to share her vast, remark­able know­ledge of paper fibers and exper­i­ment with new, large-scale artworks. 

Since the 90’s, Mandy has developed her exper­i­ment­al paper­mak­ing prac­tice by com­bin­ing both Japan­ese and West­ern paper­mak­ing meth­ods. Through com­bin­ing tra­di­tion­al bast fibers (gampi and kozo ) with leaf fibers (abaca and sis­al), Mandy cre­ates com­plex pat­terns and lay­ers influ­enced by her cul­tur­al research. 

Insti­tute of Mak­ing mem­bers can drop into our Strat­ford work­shop on Tues­days to see Mandy’s work, ask ques­tions about her prac­tice and even join in with some on-the-spot making. 

Mandy’s mater­i­als-led approach includes gath­er­ing and pro­cessing found (or spe­cially grown) plant mater­i­als, gathered from loc­a­tions close to her home and stu­dio. From these, she has also cre­ated a series of ​‘Plant Manu­als’, con­tain­ing plant paper samples, paper­mak­ing recipes and plant-based anec­dotes for oth­ers to learn from.

How to get involved:

Inter­ested in learn­ing more about the won­ders of paper­mak­ing and book art? Why not… 

• Apply to join Mandy’s six-week, in-depth paper­mak­ing course here

• Drop into our Strat­ford space for a chat with Mandy on Tues­day 5^th Novem­ber, Tues­day 12^th Novem­ber or Tues­day 19^th Novem­ber, between 10:30am-12:30pm.

• Join an inter­act­ive demon­stra­tion — book­able on the events page. 

Find out more about Mandy here:

• Web­site
• Ins­tagram

Please let us know if you have any access require­ments in order to attend this book­ing by email­ing events@​instituteofmaking.​org.​uk.

We look for­ward to see­ing you soon!