Painter, sculptor and sometime art gallery director, born in Ayr, Scotland. He was educated in Scotland but studied art at Sidcup School of Art, 1938–40. In 1956, Mann moved to Stratford-upon-Avon, in Warwickshire, in 1960 forming Alexander Fine Arts, eventually amalgamated with the Compendium Galleries, Moseley, which he directed until the mid-1970s. Visual-sound music was a key preoccupation, but he also produced public sculptures and murals for commercial and industrial organisations. Impulse, at the Five Ways roundabout, Birmingham, 1972, made in stainless tubular steel, and some painted cast-iron Chess-Pieces, 1974, Sutton Coldfield, are by him. Showed in Midlands and elsewhere and Leamington Spa Art Gallery holds his work.
Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)