celebrating 25 years of creativity
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Mary Branson with New Dawn, which can be seen at the entrance of St Stephen's Hall, Houses of Parliament. (Photo courtesy of Mary Branson)
Mary Branson lurks around in the dark. She is a light installation artist, always looking for interesting spaces to work in at night. It is a curious relationship she has with sculpture and technology: whenever she thinks up ideas, she never knows how to make it come to fruition.
So she would always go to other artists to help her, and even when they don’t know how, she works with them to push the boundaries to make it happen.
Over the years Mary has worked with other Surrey Sculpture Society members like Lisa Pettibone, who has a cross-over between art and space; Mary English and her massive pit-firings in Cornwall which have captured her imagination; and Adam Aaronson...
Mary says she was so fortunate to become an artist-in-residence at the Houses of Parliament to make a memorial to women’s suffrage. Again, she didn’t know exactly how to make it and went to Adam Aaronson for help. This started a three-year relationship, a very exciting time in their lives, to create a permanent piece in Westminster Hall.