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Events in June
I will be playing around and enjoying making small affordable wall pieces incorporating bunches of flowers, birds, hearts, hands and ‘Tussie Mussie’ posies . All that is fresh and green and positive.

At The Saatchi Gallery in May .
I have been invited by the Scottish Gallery along with 47 other makers to create a small box 20cm X 20cm for “Collect”, the Annual international Applied Arts event.

February until 3rd April
Matthew Harris and I have worked in parallel and close proximity for twenty-five years. Both originally training in textiles at Goldsmiths College, our work shares a common language that involves the construction of whole images from pieces and fragments of cloth, paper and reclaimed ceramic. This recent body of work, based on a trip to Japan with our teenage daughters continues our independent exploration of material and process.

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Stroud Festival

Every year I take part In The Mellerstain House ‘Summer Show’ in Berwickshire. If you live or are visiting the Borders, this estate is worth a days trip to take in the exhibition, the house and the grounds . Sunday 3rd July -Sunday 25th September

‘Pharma’s Market’ will be at in Honiton in Devon 24th Sept – 11th November.

Continuing the Production of Cute~
Oct 8th-Nov 20th.

Meet……. ‘And So’, ‘Oh So’, ‘Elegance’

This November is a busy month with two weekends of exhibitions
‘Sustain’ at The Landsdown Centre, Stroud GL5 1BN on the 18th & 19th from 10.00am-5.00pm, and 20th 11.00am-4.00pm. The following weekend at ‘Frogmarsh Mill’, South Woodchester GL5 5ES. on the 26th & 27th from 10.00am -5.00pm.

At both events there will be a varied selection of work including basketry , ceramics Jewellery and textiles and I am always struck when I exhibit in Stroud that there is such a rewarding and an appreciative audience. Stroud is also full of amazing talents and to just pitch up down the road with makers who exhibit nationally and who create a diverse range of hand made and beautifully crafted artisan pieces is extraordinary

Harris – Mussi

Matthew Harris and Cleo Mussi have worked in parallel and close proximity for twenty-five years. Both originally training in textiles at Goldsmiths College, their work shares a common language that involves the construction of whole images from pieces and fragments of cloth, paper and reclaimed ceramic. This recent body of work, based on a trip to Japan continues their independent exploration of material and process.

Pharma’s Market is a mosaic installation, the culmination of a two-year research project exploring the contrasting imagery of historical and contemporary farming. It connects traditional ideas about food, agriculture and animal husbandry with modern developments in stem cell research and genetic modification. Although the setting of the exhibition is a traditional agricultural fair, visitors will experience an exhibition with a distinctly contemporary twist.

I have an engaging story to tell, and my characters, from life-sized ‘robo-rabbits’ to ‘space scientists’ and ‘bucolic’ farmers, all jostle for their part in the plot. My stories are derived from the real world of science and medicine, albeit reconstructed through the process of my own particular visual imagination. Using recycled china to make the extraordinary figures, the surreal sense of humour is where I have made my mark. It’s as if the pieces of china I painstakingly chip at become fragments of DNA in my own genetic rearrangements of nature.

Although I am exhibiting at Frogmarsh Mill , it will also possible to peek inside my Studio and see the garden as Matthew Harris www.matthewharriscloth.co.uk will be opening his studio as part of the Textile Trail .

This is a lovely day out with lots of makers work to see, demonstrations and workshops as well as yummy lunches too – also a very affordable plant stall !
I will have a broad range of work on my stand as well as pieces from my recent 50/50 show in Bath.

This magazine has come out in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore this week.

A~Z a Face Book.
Following on from “A~Z a Hand Book” show, Cleo Mussi’s mosaics put faces through their paces. From D for ‘Dolly Bird and’ Dandiprat’ to Q for ‘Queer as a Fish’ this compact show explores simple expressions of love in a ‘Kiss’ to more complex studies of Phrenological Heads and Xrays. There is also a good sprinkling of humour to keep you thinking.

The Lansdown Gallery, Lansdown, Stroud, GL5 1BN.
Back for our 4th year and presenting another fantastic mix of contemporary crafts working to support communities and the environment. Lots of gorgeous things for every one from £5 £500 with mosaics, jewellery, hand made books, basketry, drawings, small sculptures made from found objects inc. paper and fabric, as well as creatures from Little Wren House Factory. Friday November 16th – Sat 17th from 10am -5pm, Sunday 18th from 11am – 4pm.

On Saturday, Stroud’s multi award winning Farmers’ market is just two minutes up the road.

I have Installed an exciting commission for the newly built: Vale Community Hospital in Dursley, Gloucestershire. This new building is on the site of an old railway track which ran a light goods and passenger train service for the local community. The Dursley Donkey will now be resurrected in the waiting area, so there will be lots of interesting details of china and memories stirred to distract you whilst you wait for your appointments. With much thanks to Prema Arts Uley for organising this commission.

This exhibition was inspired by a trip to Japan, taken by two artists, husband and wife, Matthew Harris and Cleo Mussi in 2009. This Journey mirrors that of the Gallery’s Founders, Merton and Annie Russell-Cotes In 1884.
For this exhibition, Matthew and Cleo have also selected and responded to the artefacts brought back by Merton and Annie almost 130 years ago which they have incorporated alongside the contemporary objects that they have collected and the work that they have created.

7th October – 2nd November 2013

In the basement of The Scottish Gallery we come across a mysterious mosaic world. A sanitised production line reproduction of creatures; where body-less arms create ‘Cutes’ and futuristic scientists add a creative flourish- measuring and manipulating ceramic ornaments. Life size anthropomorphic ‘Robo Bunnies’ are programmed to process, harvesting a basket of earthly delights extracting and regurgitating perfection.

Is your tank half full or half empty ?
Mine is pretty full at the moment as I have just been awarded an Arts Council Grant to take my new project “All Consuming” to both Collect at The Saatchi Gallery, London in May and The Museum in The Park, Stroud in July 2014.
Over the past two years I have been developing my next installation of mosaics. Leading on from “Pharma’s Market” this project explores genetics, economics and sustainable practices to create a new mosaic installation with accompanying notes . The resulting exhibition is a story; in the traditional sense of Folk Art, reflecting the world that we live in whilst connecting to bygone days. In this show we come across a mysterious mosaic world .
“All Consuming” is a comment and an observation on man’s evolution within our environment and our desire to consume and collect everything. From “Mitochondrial Eve” we go through a narrative of life size figures exploring energy consumption, agricultural practice, the fable of the bees, clean water, alternative energy and finally the savings bank for the Genome in the form of a modern day ark , our own perfect space ship- Earth.
May 2014 will be a busy time as I will also have work on show in the Select Trail.

In an age of Giants
Corporate junk science
Filter Bubbles whilst
Sucking The Guts
For greater GDP
and a one way ticket on the
Super Highway

Quietly intense, strikingly thoughtful, urgent yet reserved, Cleo Mussi wrestles the grand themes of human existence from inspirational idea to intricately detailed mosaic narrative – in grand style. Following on from her highly successful touring exhibition ‘Pharmas Market’, Mussi revisits the collective and personal modern predicaments we find ourselves in by taking us on a journey that spans the recent evolution of our avaricious yet all too aware species. In ‘All Consuming’ Art meets Science in a dramatic exposition that leaves us in no doubt as to the precariousness of our current situation, served with an undercurrent of Mussi’s trademark humour that at least allows us to laugh at our folly even if it refuses to offer any easy solutions.

The major pieces comment on the interaction of human life with the natural world in all its pain and vast potential. ‘Nature Recycles Everything’, reflects an overarching motif; there is nothing we grow, make, consume, use, dispose of or attempt to destroy that ever escapes the truth of the law of conservation of energy

With this opus Mussi reveals the evolving work of the demiurge – capturing our transient influence on the planet and forcing us to confront our motivations – but still allowing us to be distracted by a witty detail, a wry observation.

My complete exhibtion ‘All Consuming’ will open at The Museum in the Park on 19th July until 27th August – a taster of the 70 piece exhibition will be live on my face book page soon………..

All Consuming

Quietly intense, strikingly thoughtful, urgent yet reserved, Cleo Mussi wrestles the grand themes of human existence from inspirational idea to intricately detailed mosaic narrative – in grand style. Following on from her highly successful touring exhibition ‘Pharmas Market’, Mussi revisits the collective and personal modern predicaments we find ourselves in by taking us on a journey that spans the recent evolution of our avaricious yet all too aware species. In ‘All Consuming’ Art meets Science in a dramatic exposition that leaves us in no doubt as to the precariousness of our current situation, served with an undercurrent of Mussi’s trademark humour that at least allows us to laugh at our folly even if it refuses to offer any easy solutions.
The major pieces comment on the interaction of human life with the natural world in all its pain and vast potential. ‘Nature Recycles Everything’, reflects an overarching motif; there is nothing we grow, make, consume, use, dispose of or attempt to destroy that ever escapes the truth of the law of conservation of energy
With this Opus Cleo Mussi reveals the evolving work of the demiurge – capturing our transient influence on the planet and forcing us to confront our motivations – but still allowing us to be distracted by a witty detail, a wry observation, hidden beauty.

Paul Patterson

A Solo Exhibition Thursday 11th September until Saturday 8th November

Enjoy Cleo Mussi’s depictions of Spring in all its burgeoning glory in her intricate boody ware panels, where fragments of broken crockery have been transformed to explore a world of nature’s plenty from Bunny figures with their offspring to baskets overflowing with flowers. Cleo has a very distinctive approach to her work using the medium of mosaic, believing that restricting herself to recycling objects opens the creative mind to focus on realising the potential of the materials to hand. ‘The inherent qualities of the pattern in the tableware are cropped, reshuffled, taken out of context and reassembled.’ Cleo pieces together disparate fragments and symbols to create meaningful mosaic images and stories of abundance.

Please join me for the opening on Saturday 7th March from 2-4pm

26th Sept – Nov 1st
I have installed a new commission Ode To Ed in the new education space as well as a showcase of works for sale.

Do join us at the opening of Prema Arts, South Street, Uley, Nr Dursley, Gloucestershire GL11 5SS on Sept 26th from 11am -5pm
01453 860703

Anthropologie, “Rabbit Manufactory”
17th March – 8th May

(weekends only) 7th , 8th May and 14th, 15th May 11am – 6pm
Frogmarsh Mill , South Woodchester. Stroud GL5 5ET

www.stroudinternationaltextiles.org.uk/textiletrail.html‎‎

My next exhibition at The Park Gallery , Callendar House, Falkirk , FK1 1YR, Scotland including life size figures and many small intimate pieces. from October 29th until January 8th 2017.

Eleven makers , one venue, one weekend – do come and join us for tea, cake and a catch up

Moira Buckley – Jewellery
Susan Early – Basket Making
Sally Hampson – Woven blankets and Scarves
Fionna Hesketh – Jewellery
Annie Hewett – Ceramic
Ursula Jeakins – Hand Made Books
Shireen Morris – Collage and Painting
Cleo Mussi – Mosaic
Henrietta Park – Knitted Garments
Claire Stratton – Jewellery
Tessa Tyldesley – Jewellery

My latest interview for Dig Delve – An online magazine about gardens, landscape, growing …
digdelve.com/
Dig Delve features the writing of garden and landscape designer Dan Pearson and includes stories about gardens, horticulture, plants, landscape, nature, food …

Cleo Mussi creates inspiring and extraordinary work using discarded china. In this artist interview for SIT, filmed by Katie Watson, Cleo talks about her interests in environmental issues and new work involving weeds.
https://vimeo.com/203440381.

Meet Cleo at Frogmarsh Mill during the Select Trail where you can buy and commission her work. The Trail is open May 6/7 & 13/14 2017 – find out more on the SIT select website sitselect.org/sitselecttrail.html

Hay on Wye , open during The Literature Festival until 25th June

Hay on Wye, during The Literature Festival until June 25th

One Weekend Only

Check https://selecttrail.org for the editors pic of the open studios and events coming up in May

Open studio Select Trail at Frogmarsh Mill in Nailsworth – see the on line catalogue for details. 5th 6th and 12th 13th May open from 11am -6pm GL5 5ET

Made Marylebone , London coming up …. lots of new pieces

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PUBLIC OPENING TIMES
Thursday 18th October -10.30am – 5pm
Thursday 18th October – 18.00pm – 21.00pm Private View Party
Friday 19th October 10.30 am – 5pm (last entry 4.30pm)
Saturday 20th October 10.30am – 5pm (last entry 4.30pm)
Sunday 21st October 10.30am – 5pm (last entry 4.30pm)

Join us for the usual catch up with tea and cake and conversation ….

2019 May 11th/12th and 18th/19th
Select Trail Open Studios, Weekends only
from 11am until 6pm
Frogmarsh Mill
South Woodchester, GL5 5ET
www.sitselect.org/

Scottish Gallery 29th Nov- 23rd Dec 2019

Cleo Mussi�s life size mosaics immerse you in an evolutionary and historical timeline. They explore how the British landscape has changed and evolved since Neolithic times with the conscious and unconscious introduction of seeds and plants from Europe and further a field. Waves of immigrants introduced plants and seeds for culinary and medicinal purposes and also surreptitiously as stow-a-ways on animal pelts, clothing or in animal feed. Plants naturalised and spread through cultivation or as weeds along well-trodden migratory paths and are now established as part of our diverse landscape. Often tied up with traditional folklore, fairylore, superstition and agricultural toil, these plants and weeds are now so familiar they are incorporated into our cultural history.

Please join us at FROGMARSH COLLECTIVE open weekend in Stroud ,23rd & 24th November; we have two new guest exhibitors the talented duo from Bonner Leather and Lucy Birkinshaw with her stunning wall paper and prints . Tea cake and conversation as always.

March 20th- 22nd
Very Excited to be part of the ceramic world at Central Saint Martins 1 Granary Square, London, N1C 4AA, United Kingdom. Stand 104

I have been shortlisted along side nine ceramic artists for the British Ceramic Biennale – so excited about this one.

AWARD 2021 11th sept until 17th October
www.britishceramicsbiennial.com

Please join the Gloucestershire Guild at Rodmarton Manor in �Crafts Alive� . A beautiful house and garden as an incredible venue for a Gloucestershire Guild selling exhibition as well as workshops, demonstrations, talks , theatre and performances , also a local artisan cafe . Please book via the guild website
www.guild crafts.org.U.K.

For this exhibition I have created four large summer fire guards for the beautiful fire places which measure 2 meters by 1 meter for the grand dining room,sitting room and the reception room which houses a small collection of Punch and Judy puppets .. for this space I have created Toby , Mr Punch�s dog as a pair of �Fire Guard Dogs� and In the main rooms large bountiful baskets ….
glosguild #craftsalive

Printed to order and distributed World Wide on line from The Great British Bookshop with over 500 images of works created over the last 33 years. An LP size retrospective with 196 pages. From early beginnings in 1990, from simple tiles which evolved into large major installations of over 100 life size figurative elements.

�45.00 ISBN 9781784567767 With 1000 copies only.

Cleo Mussi is a true original taking an innovative path to expressing her own ideas, by creating gestural, figurative mosaics from repurposed ceramic tableware. Working within the folk tradition, Cleo creates elegant, decorative and political pieces that incorporate the inherent properties gleaned from patterns, marks, forms, colour and text into a world of contemporary narratives. These works reflect modern ideas, with both humour and a lightness of touch. Cleo�s work ranges from small intimate pieces to large scale installations of up to 100, life-size works; her mosaics are in private collections worldwide, as well as in many public spaces throughout the UK.
Cleo Mussi is a maverick ceramic artist marshalling historical shards of china into contemporary stories that reflect the world around us. Cleo�s book will take you on a journey of discovery from of her life size gestural figures to small intimate works, all drawn from repurposed ceramic tableware. You will explore narratives mapped from her personal journeys through history, science, art and nature, exploring the surface and the underbelly of key themes in anthropology and humanity. You will meet her characters, that include large anthropomorphic robot rabbits, spacemen, quack doctors and historical figures who all jostle for a position in her tales. As well as seeing her working methods and how her practice has evolved over the last thirty three years, you will see the rigour of her research, her humour and the lightness of touch in her creative practice. Cleo�s works are in private collections world wide as well as in many public spaces throughout the UK.