The roots of my practise are in making connections between plants, people, place and the idea of gathering 'layers' whether in the form of materials or objects being brought together in the physical world or the stories that are gathered through history, community and belief about plants, people, place and the affect that stories gave on form and objects.
Below is a time line of my most prominent experiments with the themes described...
January 22nd - 27th
Collaborative exhibition with Rhona Francis in Falmouth, Cornwall.
November & December 2022
6 week artist residency at Cabilla Cornwall. Sculptural collaboration with Beavers.
October 2021 - October 2022
Long term collaboration with artist collective Fourthland.
Supported by Arts Council England, CAST & Kestle Barton
April 17th - 22nd 2022
1 week collaboration with photographer and animator Ruby Ingleheart.
2022
Commission for artist Emma Smith for an activity for a small booklet to go along side her wider project, Gwelen, in the Mounts Bay, Penzance area.
May 2021 - July 2023
July 2019
1 month collaborative residency & exhibition with Olivia Brelsford-Massey.
Sculptural installation, film screening, artist talk and Spice Workshop.
May 2019
Final exhibition at Falmouth University, in collaboration with Olivia Brelsford-Massey.
BA (hons) Fine Art
April 2019
August 2018
1 month residency at CAST in Helston, plus an open studio event & artist talk
December 2017
16mm Film
Shot in Canada while studying 'Indigenous Cinema' at Emily Carr University, Vancouver
BIO
Maya is an artist based in Cornwall, working in a way that promotes awareness of nature and one's own body.
Through a dance of intuition and an eye for balance, she is a wood carver and textile artist who often works collaboratively and for the benefit of the community.
She transforms materials found in British woodlands into organic forms and gentle wild colours. Exploring the over laps between landscape, story telling, energy forces and community.
