Marianne Spurr: Today

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Today

After scraping the rapture
from our tongues
we watched something living
as it grew under glass;

watched its bones set and fuse
like new ice meeting
the edge of a river.

A fingernail forced
into the dark of a fist
it was seeking
the freedom of air;

the memory of eyelash
in the grass of a paintbrush
or the itch of a heart as its blood runs to dust.

- Keiran Goddard 

Marianne Spurr lives and works in London and graduated from the Royal College of Art, MA Painting, in 2012. Recent exhibitions and projects include Last Night, Parallel Oaxaca / Material Art Fair, Mexico City (2015); Exquisite Collapse, blip blip blip, Leeds (2015); A Union of Voices, Horatio Junior, London (2014); Light/Materiality, Second Home, London (2014); Open Heart Surgery, The Moving Museum, London (2013); Young London, V22, London (2013); Pop Tarts, James Fuentes, New York (2013); Managing Bounces, Cell Project Space, London (2013); Plenitude, Carl Freedman Gallery, London (2012); LOT, CUL DE SAC, London (2012); Samara Scott & Marianne Spurr, Seventeen, London (2012).