Marianne Forrest FCSD
BA(Hons) Three-dimensional Design
MA(RCA) Silversmithing
Fellow of the Chartered Society of Designers
Freeman (by redemption) of the City of London
Senior Lecturer in BA(Hons)Design
RAE Outcomes
Teaching
Three-dimensional Design including product, space and 2D into 3D; Managing the Design process and recruitment.
Research Interests
Developing formal and informal surfaces and interfaces using time and form as leading concerns.
Practice based research
Current projects include:
Newnham College timepiece; Northern Gateway Commission, Ebbw Vale (Installation TBC); Transformations, an exploration of encapsulation using the mundane to create epiphanies for exhibition and community involvement.
2006 - Kinetic sculptures for the London Business School
2006 - Holyhead Railway Station Sculpture
2006 - Histon Pavilion timepiece
2005 - Commemorative neckpiece, private collection
2005/6 - Sculptures and timeline, Portishead Quays
2004 - Sculptures and kinetic timepiece, London Business School
2004 - Clock, Barometer, Thermometer/sculpture, Queen Mary II
2001 - Clock for the Royal Automobile Club, Piccadilly
2000 - Commemorative Clock, Highgate School
2000 - Wall Clock, Virgin Atlantic
1999 - Foyer Clock, British Land Co., Regents Park, London
1999 - Epiphany series of pocket watches
1999 - Wall Clock, Malvern Theatre
1998 - External Clock for 7 Dials, Covent Garden
1997 - External Wall Frieze for General Accident (Architect Hawk PLC), Cork St
1996/7 - Tower Clock, Market Square, Spalding
1996 - Wall Sculpture, RCCL Caribbean Cruise Liner
1995 - Kinetic wall piece for the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
1995 - Feature Clock, Glaxo-Wellcome Research, Stevenage
1995 - Atrium Clock for Temple Court, Birmingham
1993 - Foyer Clock and boardroom clocks for Inmarsat, London
1992 - Feature Clock for the Criterion Brasserie, Piccadilly, London
1992 - Sculpture Clock for the Kingsmead Shopping Centre, Farnborough
1990 - Compass for the central skylight of a Jon Bannenberg yacht
Exhibitions
1987 - Clockmakers Today, Goldsmiths Hall, London
1987 - British Design in Japan, Seibu, Japan
1994 - The Chemistry Set, Crafts Council
1995 - The Influence of Nature, Crafts Council
1999 - Scale, Contemporary Applied Arts
1996 - Metalanguage, Barbican Centre
1996 - Time Zone, Crafts Council Shop
1996 - Focus, Contemporary Applied Arts
1997 - Beatrice Royal Gallery
1998 - Anniversary Exhibition, Contemporary Applied Arts
1999 - Fine Art, Roger Billcliffe
2003 - Fine Metalwork, Harley Gallery
2004 - Goldsmiths Collection, Harley Gallery
2005 - Haddenham Studios
2006 - The Stone Gallery, Oxfordshire
2006 - Rufford Abbey, Nottinghamshire
2007 - Galanthus Gallery
2007 - From Conception to Construction, Ucheldre Arts Centre, Holyhead
2007 - Alexander Gallery, Brighton
Collections
Royal Museum of Scotland
Goldsmiths Collection
Hampshire Museum
Priors Court Collection
Worshipful Company of Scientific Instrument Makers
Cleveland Craft Centre collection
Victoria & Albert Museum
Guest Lectures
Art, Science & Technology, Birmingham Guildhall
An Explanation, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
Starting in Business, York
Time Maker, Birmingham University
Differences that make a Difference, LMU, 2006
Publications
Flotel Interiors, Stormy Sea of Ideas, The Bloomsbury Partnership Ltd., 1992
The Canal, Design for life, Solanke Publications, London, 1992
S. Shirley: The Priors Court Collection, Bohun Gallery, London, 2002 (ISBN; 0 9507212 2 0)
The Goldsmiths' Company: Treasures of the 20th Century, London, 2000 (ISBN; 0 907814 30 5)
J.Sokolov: Product Design 4, PBC International INC., NY, 1990 (ISBN; 0 86636129 4)
Peta Levi: New British Design 1998, Mitchell Beazley, London, 1998 (ISBN; 1 84000 099 6)
Edward Booth Clibborn: The Best of British Product Design, London, 1992 (ISBN; 0904 866 912)
Mario Bellini: The International Design Yearbook 1990/91, Thames & Hudson, 1990 (ISBN; 0 50023 601 1)
Work featured in Crafts Magazine, Perspectives on Architecture, Abitare, London Business Schools Art Collection, Glaxo-Wellcome Collection and Financial Times
Television programmes
BBC 2 Watch Making Master Class, 1998
BBC 2 Techno-Designers, 1998
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