Marly Merle Baker

Marly Baker studied Fine Art BA (Hons) at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, graduating with a First in 2022

Marly’s degree show work was awarded the Alistair Smart Memorial Prize for Sculpture. Since graduating, she has obtained her own studio space in Glasgow’s East End where she continues to develop her practice, she has also become a member at the Glasgow Print Studios.

In 2022/23, Marly was selected for Upland’s CREATE bursary in which she was provided a funded gallery space at Gracefield Art Centre, to create a new body of work for Dumfries and Galloway’s artists open studio weekend ‘Spring Fling’. The show was covered in The National and Scotsman newspapers.

In 2023, Marly and her work was given a full feature photoshoot in GUM Magazine, one of the wearable pieces from this shoot proceeded to star in an additional shoot by photographer Samuel Edwards, the photographs were then featured in PAP Magazine, an international fashion photography magazine. Additionally, Marly has been working within the costume sector for theatre, where she has worked with companies such as Scottish Opera and The Pavilion Theatre in Glasgow.

In Marly's art practice, she is interested in exploring new worlds, cities and spaces to create physical artworks that provoke ideas around new and better places in which to exist. Focusing on ideas of ‘otherness’ and rejecting perceived societal norms, Marly uses wearable sculpture to question a person's own lived reality.