CLEO MUSSI
Happy & Cute, 23 x 24 cms, found and discarded ceramics ÂŁ230 Cute Soli, 26 x 15 cms, found and discarded ceramics ÂŁ230
CLEO MUSSI
MUSSI’S MAGIC TOYSHOP 7 October - 2 November 2013
Front cover: Add Hox Spaceman, 2009, 123 x 67 cms, found and discarded ceramics £2800
Cleo Mussi studied textiles at Goldsmiths College, London where her interest in recycled fabrics, knowledge of pattern, print, weave and stitch took her into working with reclaimed ceramic. The narrative within her work is reflected within the ceramic that she incorporates. Chinese ceramic meets Wedgewood, Poole sits next to Japanese porcelain and Staffordshire unites with Homebase to form a unique and motley collection of work. Cleo Mussi is a storyteller. In the traditional sense of Folk Art, her work is a narrative reflecting of the world that we live in whilst connecting to bygone days. We are taken to a mysterious mosaic world; where manipulated ceramic ornaments known as Cutes and life size anthropomorphic Robo Bunnies come to life. Mussi has honed her craft and incorporates the found marks, patterns, text and forms found in table ceramics and draws with the china to make new contemporary images.
Phrenological Head Creativity, 37 x 30 cms found and discarded ceramics ÂŁ595 SOLD
Red Heart, 15 x 11 cms, found and discarded ceramics ÂŁ95 SOLD
Left hand with Rose Centre, 19 x 10 cms, found and discarded ceramics ÂŁ110 Right hand with Heart Centre, 19 x 10 cms, found and discarded ceramics ÂŁ110
Tussie Mussie with Marigold, 2013, 20 x 15 cms, found and discarded ceramics ÂŁ175 SOLD
Green heart with wings, 26 x 17 cms, found and discarded ceramics ÂŁ110 SOLD
Left hand with Green Nails, 19 x 10 cms, found and discarded ceramics ÂŁ110 Right hand with Pink Nails, 19 x 10 cms, found and discarded ceramics ÂŁ110 SOLD
Dove Holding Auricula, 37 X 24 cms, found and discarded ceramics ÂŁ285 SOLD
Dove Holding Heart, 36 x 22 cms, found and discarded ceramics ÂŁ285 SOLD
Robot 26 W90 YOU, 47 x 29 cms, found and discarded ceramics ÂŁ440
Dog Casket ‘Inu Baka’ 59 X 40 cms, found and discarded cermaics £590
Bunny Biolar detail, 25 X 44 cms, found and discarded ceramics ÂŁ1200 SOLD
Left: Cute mini Cat, 21 x 13 cms, found and discarded ceramics £195 Centre: Cute Rayware, 28 x 13 cms, found and discarded ceramics £230 Right: Happy & Cute 2, 21 x 13 cms, found and discarded ceramics £195
Left hand with Heart Centre, 19 x 10 cms, found and discarded ceramics £110 SOLD Right hand with Rose Centre, 19 x 10 cms, found and discarded ceramics £110 SOLD
White Heart with pink blanket stitch, 15 x 11 cms found and discarded ceramics ÂŁ95 SOLD
Xray ‘Romany’, 33 x 32 cms, found and discarded ceramics £485 SOLD
Left: Cute Dreams, 21 x 13 cms, found and discarded ceramics £195 Centre: Cute Crown Jewels, 28 x 13 cms, found and discarded ceramics £230 Right: Cute Mouse, 21 x 13 cms, found and discarded ceramics £195
Orange Heart, 15 x 11 cms, found and discarded ceramics ÂŁ95 SOLD
Tussie Mussie with Robin, 20 x 15 cms, found and discarded ceramics ÂŁ175 SOLD
Posy with Hand, 22 x 12 cms, found and discarded ceramics ÂŁ175 SOLD
Baby Bunting in blue, 22 x 24 cms, found and discarded ceramics ÂŁ265 SOLD
Tussie Mussie with love birds, 20 x 15 cms, found and discarded ceramics ÂŁ175 SOLD
Kokeshi Doll detail ‘ Nagasaki Wedding Dreams’ 200 x 45 cms, found and discarded ceramics £3,200
Kokeshi Doll detail ‘Cloud Blossom Dreams’ 192 x 44 cms, found and discarded ceramics £3,200
Left: Cute Bee Keeper 2, 28 x 13 cms, found and discarded ceramics £230 SOLD Right: Cute Bee Keeper 1, 28 x 13 cms, found and discarded ceramics £230
Good Boy, (Mutant), 16 x 14 x 7 cms, found and discarded ceramics ÂŁ320
Tap and Unwrap (Mutant) 39 x 17 x 17 cms, found and discarded ceramics ÂŁ650 SOLD
Lazy Lazy (Mutant) 23 x 14 x 10 cms, found and discarded ceramics ÂŁ420
Best Friend (Mutant) 30 x 14 x 10 cms, found and discarded ceramics ÂŁ450
JO Jo Sans (Mutant) 35 x 24 x 11 cms, found and discarded ceramics ÂŁ550
Left: Busy Arm with Green Nails, 45 x 11 cms, found and discarded ceramics £230 Right: Busy Arm with Blue Nails, 43 x 18 cms, found and discarded ceramics £230 Top: Oh so Cute, 15 X 22 cms, found and discarded ceramics, £230
Bottom: Production Arm Set with Stars, 46 X 51cms, found and discarded ceramics £395 Top: Cute Snow, 19 X 13 cms, found and discarded ceramics £195
Temple Bucket with Swans and Carp, 49 X 58 cms, found and discarded ceramics ÂŁ570 SOLD
Left: Cute Little Piggy, 15 x 25 cms, found and discarded ceramics, £230 Centre: Cute Corn Flower, 13 x 19 cms, found and discarded ceramics £195 Right: Cute House Ware, 15 x 26 cms, found and discarded ceramics, £230
Left: Cute Toby, 15 X 26 cms, found and discarded ceramics £230 Centre: Cute Pig, 15 x 26 cms, found and discarded ceramics £230 Right: Small Cute, 15 x 23 cms, found and discarded ceramics £230
Left: Orange Sprite in The Middle, 55 x17 cms, found and discarded ceramics £330 Right: Red Listening Spook, 54 X 17 cms, found and discarded ceramics £330 SOLD
Left: Cute Japan, 15 x 26 cms, found and discarded ceramics £195 SOLD Centre: M&S Cute, 15 x 26 cms, found and discarded ceramics £195 SOLD Right: Cute Goode,15 X 26 cms, found and discarded ceramics £195 SOLD
Left: Cute Lapdog, 15 x 26 cms, found and discarded ceramics, £230 Centre: Cute Yellow Space Cat, 29 x 12 cms, found and discarded ceramics, £230 Right: Cute Big Love, 29 x 12 cms, found and discarded ceramics, £230
Robo Bunny, 228 x 72 cms, found and discarded ceramics ÂŁ3200
SELECTED BIOGRAPHY Education 1985-1988
Goldsmiths College
Selected Solo Touring Exhibitions 2009-12 Pharma’s Market, Touring 8 venues 2008-11 A~ Z , A Hand Book Touring 6 venues 2002-5 The Crowd Touring 9 venues Venues include: Harley Gallery, Ruthin Gallery, City Gallery Leicester, Russell-Cotes, CAA, Pottery Gallery Hay, Thelma Hulbert, Prema Arts, Brewery Arts Victoria Art Gallery, Museum in the Park, Collins Gallery Selected Solo Exhibitions 2013 The Scottish Gallery, ‘Mussi’s Magic Toy Shop’ 2013 Pottery Gallery, ‘A~Z Face Book’ 2012 Corinium Museum, ‘A Face Book’ 2008 Egg, Knightsbridge, London, ‘Mutants’ 2007 Rochester Art Gallery, ‘Bring In the Green’ 1992 Royal Festival Hall, London, ‘Salvaged’ Selected Public Commissions 2007 3 Ways School, Glos. small niche scenes 2005 St Thomas’s Hospital, London Wall panels. 2005 BBC Radio Leicester & The Asian Network 64m2 2004 Gloucester Hospital, Panels for Maternity Unit 2003 Fired Earth . Artist in Residence 2001 John Lewis Partnership,Solihull,175sq.m. 1999 Queen Elizabeth Hospital ,Birmingham, 8sq.m. 1998 Colchester Hospital, 8sq.m. ‘Cool Zillij’,’ Arched Air’. 1996 Co-Op Retail Services H.Q. figurines Publications Conran and Octopus Annesse Publishing Films 2011
‘The Mosaic Book’, ‘Garden Crafts’. ‘The Garden Room’, ‘Frames’, ‘Mosaics’.
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