Press
2007
2006
- Bristol magazine, March 2006
- Times 12th May 2006
- DAX - Dutch Archtectural Magazine, Jan 2006
- EVE Magazine, July 2006
- Elle Decoration, Jan 2006
- ARKITEKTEN - Danish, March 2006
2005
2004
- ‘Hudson River Arts’ USA Spring 2004
- ‘Restaurant Magazine’ Sept 2004
- ‘Building Design’ October 2004
- ‘Arena’ November 2004
- ‘Surface Design Journal’ Cover. Winter 2003-4
2003
- ‘Saturday Times Magazine’ October 2003
- ‘Sunday Telegraph Magazine’ Feb 2003
- ‘Saturday Telegraph Magazine’ March 2003
- ‘Embroidery Magazine’ July 2003
- ‘Elle Decoration’ October 2003
2002
Journalism
Ptolemy Mann - Colour Consultancy
Colour is often an afterthought or coincidental. However, it can be the most noticeable and important factor of an interior or exterior space. It has enormous impact on the way an environment functions and feels.
Ptolemy Mann - Colour Consultancy is based on ten years experience of working within corporate and domestic interiors creating colour specific artwork and architectural installations. My intention is to provide a creative brainstorming platform for a variety of interior projects where colour will be a significant factor. The emphasis is on how to apply colour within interiors via wall paint, upholstery fabrics, soft furnishings, furniture and floor coverings.
Using colour as a tool within architecture aids movement through a building and delineates how spaces function; therefore colour can be a practical solution to certain spatial issues as well as a decorative element.
The consultation will help the client establish a colour palette for use throughout a project, creating continuity and cohesion in the resulting scheme. The service is priced per day or hour so even a small project will benefit from an initial consultation. One session may be enough to help guide or initiate an interesting use of colour throughout a project.
Using Ptolemy Mann - Colour Consultancy is an opportunity to utilize outside collaboration specifically relating to colour; from a designer/maker who has explored the endless dynamics and nuances of colour.
For further information please contact:
Ptolemy Mann - Colour Consultancy
Studio 52, Clink Street Studios, 1 Clink Street,
Soho Wharf, London, SE1 9DG. UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 7357 7101
e: fifth@ptolemymann.com
www.ptolemymann.com
Ptolemy Mann - Colour Consultancy - 2006
Colour intervention for façades - Central Nottinghamshire Hospitals PFI Project for Mansfield Community Hospital and King’s Mill Hospital
A Collaboration with Swanke Hayden Connell Architects and SKANSKA
Ptolemy Mann was selected as colour consultant to facillitate colour intervention for the exterior façades of Mansfield Community Hopsital and King’s Mill Hospital in central Nottinghamshire. The brief was to establish a broad colour palette across the whole façade which would delineate particular functions of the hospital and help way finding. The approach taken was to treat the whole scheme as a visual 'Artwork on the Landscape'. As a major 24 hour hospital it was essential to create a warm, colourful and inviting facade, visible both day and night. A spectrum of colour radiating from the entrance outwards from warm oranges through magenta, green and blue, linking the three towers behind.
Materials used to place colour on the facade include, glass spandrel panels (glass, back painted with enamel paint), transparent coloured film, metal cladding and coloured render. Consequently certain colours will be more visible at certain times of the day due to the variation of materials. All elevations of the scheme have been considered and colour has been used to harmonize the site.
Ptolemy Mann has collaborated closely with Swanke Hayden Connell Architects, SKANSKA contractors and the NHS Trust in Nottinghamshire to produce a dynamic injection of colour for their Hospital scheme. Due for completion in 2010 this is a landmark project illustrating the important role colour can have in changing our perceptions about hospitals and public buildings.
For further information about Ptolemy Mann – Colour consultancy please contact: Studio 52, Clink Street Studios, 1 Clink Street, Soho Wharf, London, SE1 9DG. UK. Tel: +44 (0)20 73577101
For further information regarding this scheme please contact: Swanke Hayden Connell Architects.Tel: +44 (0)20 7454 8200
Contact Information
Ptolemy Mann
Studio 52, Clink Street Studios, 1 Clink Street,
Soho Wharf, London, SE1 9DG. UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 7357 7101
e: fifth@ptolemymann.com
www.ptolemymann.com
Corporate and Public CommissionsExhibitions and Trade Fairs
Education
Employment
Awards
References
Press & Publications
Contact Information
Studio 52 - Clink Street Studios - 1 Clink Street
Soho Wharf - London - SE1 9DG
t/f: +44 020 7357 7101
email: fifth@ptolemymann.com
website: ptolemymann.com
Corporate, Public & Private Commissions
| Summer | 2006 | KING’S MILL & MANSFIELD HOSPITAL – COLOUR FAÇADE SPECIFICATION Colour consulting to implement colour on the façade of NHS Trust Hospital in Nottinghamshire |
| August | 2006 | GLAXO SMITH KLINE COMMISSION Eight wall pieces for GSK. 7 x 2.5m in collaboration with Art For Offices |
| March | 2006 | DRAGON COMMISSION Seven panels for the boardrooms of Dragon Brands, London. |
| Jan | 2006 | THE PRIDE OF HAWAII CRUISE SHIP Commission for 6 panels for Star Cruises in collaboration with SMC DESIGN, London. |
| July | 2005 | KPMG MANCHESTER Series of eight panels for reception space, Manchester. |
| Jan | 2005 | PORTMAN HOUSE COMMISSION For Land Securities. 3.5 x 1.5m Artwork made up of six panels, 4 depths. London. |
| August | 2004 | FRONTIER ECCONOMICS COMMISSION With Art for Offices. 7 panels for reception space. London. |
| May | 2004 | BACON HEWITT WOODROW COMMISSION With Art Contact. 11 Woven panels. More London, London. |
| Feb. | 2004 | ART FOR OFFICES Commission for Tudor Gables. Hertfordshire. |
| Autumn | 2003 | COMMISSION FOR NEW OPEN UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
BUILDING Series of 15 panels commissioned by Art for Offices. Milton Keynes. UK. |
| Autumn | 2003 | COMMISSION FOR LAND SECURITIES AT MORGATE
HALL. Series of six panels, rug design and interior advice. |
Aug 2002 - |
QUEEN MARY 2 CRUISE SHIP Series of 22 Panels for the Canyon Ranch Spa on board QM2 Cruise ship. Commissioned for Cunard by Onderneming and Kunst. |
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| April | 2003 | ART FOR OFFICES Private Black and White Commission. Hertfordshire. |
| Aug. | 2002 | THOMAS SWANN COMMISSION Parliament View, London. |
| March | 2002 | DELTA COMMISSION For Art Contact. Kings Road, London. |
| Feb | 2002 | HALCYON WHARF COMMISSION For Berkeley Homes and Stock Woolstencroft Architects. London. |
| Jan | 2002 | Commission for Ebner-Landy. London. |
| Dec | 2001 | OFER COMMISSION 'From Night to Day'. Bney Zion, Israel. |
| Sept | 2001 | CLAUDE UPPENBERG COMMISSION Private commission. Stockholm, Sweden. |
| August | 2001 | BANK OF IRELAND Commission for Satellite Office in Cheltenham. |
| May | 2001 | KPMG CORPORATE FINANCE Commission for Salisbury Square. London. |
| April | 2001 | WISE COMMISSION Series of sliding screens in association with Huw Owen Architects. London. |
| Jan | 2001 | TYLER MANDIC COMMISSION Architectural installation in private house. London. |
| Dec | 2000 | Gatwick Conference Centre Commission for GAA Associates. Gatwick Airport, England. |
| Nov | 2000 | Bowater House Commission Commission for Land Securities. Knightsbridge, London. |
| July | 2000 | Kings House Commission Commission for Land Securities property developers, Haymarket, London. |
| June | 2000 | Kpmg Cisco Alliance Commission 'Colour, movement and Line'. Stockley Park, Middlesex. |
| March | 2000 | Old Burlingtion Street Commission Commission for land securities, London. |
| May | 1999 | Coventry Cathedral Commission Short-listed for the Millennium Vestal Vestment commission for Coventry Cathedral. |
| Jan- March |
1999 | Solution Centre Commission Commission for KPMG Reading. UK. |
| July | 1998 | Midnight Transfer Reception Commission for Film Post Production Facility, Soho, London. |
| May | 1998 | "Sun Spectrum" an Architectural Installation With Graham Mortimer, Architect. Commission for SLC Head Office, Basingstoke, U.K. |
| Feb. | 1998 | McLintock Commission Commission for dining room at KPMG Accountants, Salisbury Square, London. |
| Aug. | 1997 | SLC Asset Management With Graham Mortimer, Architect. Commission for Gate House, Farringdon Street, London. |
| May | 1996 | KPMG Commission Commissioned to weave a Textile Art Piece called "Seven Countries". Conway House, Dorset Rise, London. |
Exhibitions and Trade Fairs
| Oct | 2006 | ORIGIN – THE LONDON CRAFT FAIR New fair at Somerset House, London with the Crafts Council |
| Jan | 2006 | THE LONDON ART FAIR 2006 Exhibiting with ADRIAN SASSOON - London |
| Sept | 2005 | 100% DESIGN TRADE FAIR Exhibitor. Earls Court, London. |
| March | 2005 | SCOPE - NEW YORK NY Art fair with Le Salon for Art Collectors. Flatotel, New York. USA |
| Jan | 2005 | THE LONDON ART FAIR Exhibiting with Adrian Sassoon. London. |
| May | 2004 | CONTEMPORARY CRAFTS AT KENWOOD HOUSE Exhibitor at Kenwood House, Hampstead. London. |
| Feb. | 2004 | ‘COLLECT’. Art fair for contemporary
objects @ the V & A Museum. Exhibitor with Design Nation. London. |
| Feb. | 2003 | PTOLEMY MANN-TEXTILES & BOB CROOKS-GLASS |
| Oct | 2002 | CHELSEA CRAFT FAIR 2002 Exhibitor. London. |
| Aug | 2002 | ARTIST SPOTLIGHT @ GRACE BARRAND DESIGN CENTRE Spotlight in Hampshire gallery. |
| May | 2002 | SOFA NEW YORK 2002 International Exposition of Sculpture Objects & Functional Art. In association with CAA. Park Avenue. New York. USA |
| April | 2002 | ‘SPECTRUM’ @ THE KIOSK PROJECT
One woman show. Site specific installation. London. |
| April | 2002 | ‘CONSTRUCTION’ @ RUFFORD CRAFT
CENTRE Exhibition of constructed textiles. Nottinghamshire. |
| Jan | 2002 | 'FROM THE SHADOW TO THE LIGHT' Woven textile exhibition curated by Lesley Millar. CAA. London. |
| Oct | 2001 | CHELSEA CRAFT FAIR 2001 Exhibitor. Chelsea, London. |
| May | 2001 | SOFA NEW YORK International Exposition of Sculpture Objects & Functional Art. In association with CAA. Park Avenue. New York. USA |
| April | 2001 | FOCUS @ CONTEMPORARY APPLIED ARTS Installation of series of nine pieces @ CAA, London. |
| Jan | 2001 | LE SALON FOR ART COLLECTORS Exhibition with Vanessa Suchar. Elizabeth Street, London. |
| Nov | 2000 | Sofa Chicago Exhibitor with Contemporary Applied Arts. Chicago, USA |
| Oct | 2000 | Chelsea Craft Fair Exhibitor. Chelsea, London |
| Jan | 2000 | Art 2000 With Contemporary Applied Arts Art Trade fair @ Business Design Centre. London |
| Dec | 1999 | Solo Show "January — December 1999" Gary J Hawkes Gallery. London. |
| Nov | 1999 | Design Resolutions Exhibitor. Royal Festival Hall. London. |
| June- July |
1999 | New Member Showcase @ Contemporary Applied Arts 1 Percy Street, London. |
| July | 1999 | New Faces @ The Craft Council Shop @ The V&A 1 of four exhibitors at the Victoria & Albert Museum, Kensington, London. |
| June | 1999 | Living With Textiles Exhibition at C2+ Lesley Craze Gallery, London. |
| Dec | 1998 | Selection Of Work @ Christopher Farr Shop on Westbourne Grove, London. |
| Sept | 1998 | Showcase @ Craft Council Shop Display at the Craft Council, Pentonville Rd, London. |
| Sept. | 1998 | 100% Design - Design Trade Fair Exhibitor with New Designers in Business, Earls Court London. |
| July | 1998 | New British Design - Book Launch and Exhibition
@ HAUS Exhibitor at HAUS, Mortimer Street, London. |
| Jan. | 1998 | Decorative Arts Today 1998 Exhibition at Bonhams Auction House, Knightsbridge, London. |
| Nov. | 1997 | Leslie Craze Gallery - C2+ Solo Exhibition. Clerkenwell Greene, London. |
| July | 1997 | Window Display for Oswald Boateng Vigo Street, London. |
| June | 1997 | RCA M.A. Degree Show Exhibitor. Henry More Gallery, RCA, London. |
| April | 1997 | Textile Exhibition - The Groucho Club Dean Street, London. |
100% DESIGN
| Sept. | 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000. Exhibitor, Chelsea, London. | |
CHELSEA CRAFT FAIR
| Oct. | 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000. Exhibitor, Chelsea, London. | |
SOFA CHICAGO - International Exposition of Sculpture Objects & Functional Art. USA.
| Nov | 2003, 2000 | Exhibitor with Contemporary Applied Arts. |
SOFA NEW YORK - International Exposition of Sculpture Objects & Functional Art. USA.
| May | 2002, 2001 | Exhibitor with Contemporary Applied Arts. |
Education
| Oct. -June |
1995 1997 |
Royal College of Art Masters Degree in Woven Textiles, London. |
| Sept. July |
1992 1995 |
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design The London Institute. B.A. Hons. Degree in Textile Design. Specialization in Woven Textiles. |
| Sept. -July |
1991 1992 |
Maidstone College of Art and Design Kent Institute of Art and Design. Foundation Course (Distinction). |
Public Collections And Private Collectors
KPMG, Land Securities, Midnight Transfer, Sun Life of Canada, Stephen Garrett, Anne Battye
Galleries Where Stocked
- Contemporary Applied Arts, 2 Percy Street, London, W1P 9FA