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WORKS


NEW DAWN
On the 7th June, 2016, one hundred and fifty years to the day since the campaign for women’s votes began, New Dawn, an artwork...


SILENT CHOIR
Waterloo Festival - St Johns Church 2025 Silent Choir holds the echoes of a community—broken, reformed, enduring. Smoke firing has...


THE UNDERTOW
The Undertow. Mary Branson 2024 Smoked fired clay, steel, audio: 9’30”. Looking to the horizon, standing on the edge of land and sea,...


ECHEA
' Echea' 2023. Echea is a sounding vase, part of a suite of nine made for my solo exhibition ‘Unearthing’ at Gosport Museum and...


AGE OF MAN
Age of Man , 2023 Smoked fired clay, wood, paint. This ceramic frieze reflects our recent entry and rapid advancement into the current...


UNEARTHING
Unearthing (Gosport Museum & Gallery, 2023) is a multimedia installation which holds at its core hundreds of locally discovered...


LOW TIDE
New Dawn in Westminster Hall in Low tide lighting state Low Tide – New Dawn 2022 Queen Elizabeth II lay in state in Westminster Hall for...


BALANCE
Balance Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Residency: 2021 In Spring 2021 I joined two other artists to hold the first artist’s...


RED TENTS II
My very first public artwork was in March 2003. It comprised 28 illuminated red tents sited on a hillside, over three days and nights on...


EXQUINOX
‘Equinox’. Nov 2019 I returned to the site of my Harvest installation on the Autumn equinox to create an artwork using purely women and...


DAUGHTERS OF THEIA
At its heart, Daughters of Theia is an artwork that celebrates women’s relationship to the moon. The work comprises eighty-four ceramic...


LADDERS OF LIGHT
Ladders of Light… A new constitution for the UK. February 5th - April 3rd, 2019 Salisbury Cathedral. An exciting new work from two...


HARVEST
Harvest - Dusk. John Miller. Harvest. Light sculptures, 300m x 250m field, 66 x LED Bales. Harvest is a site-specific intervention on...


THE HOUSE OF LIFE
Grant The House of Life Mary Branson and Emma Brown 2018. During the winter months, I’d stand at the windows and stare out at the...


A CONVERSATION WITH MY MOTHER
My mum was born on the 20th January 1925 at her home Ithaca, on the banks of the Essequibo river, near George Town in Guyana. She now...


NEW DAWN.
On the 7th June, 2016, one hundred and fifty years to the day since the campaign for women’s votes began, New Dawn, an artwork...


THE BIRTH OF STARS
The Birth of Stars (TBOS) is a light, sound and dance performance, situated outside and within the studio at GLive, Guildford. The work...


CONTAINMENT
‘ Containment. (Measuring the impact of the arts within prison)’ Date: October 2014 HMP Send prisoners are issued with ‘volumetric...


SUPERNATURE
Supernature was a collaboration with Jono and Debbie Retallick, a large -scale sculptural light and sound installation for the 2012...


DAMASCUS ROAD
‘Damascus Road’ As part of the 2011 St Georges Arts artist residency, Mary explored the contemporary understanding of the term ‘Road to...
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