Maisie Maris is an artist based in and from London. Her practice includes sculpture, installation, textiles and drawing to bind the human and geological together. She creates a type of body geology through haptic and ethnographic approaches to environments - viscous skins, exposed seams and cracked edges, spill and overflow in her materiality, her works are vulnerable bodies merging with each other and the world.
Maris’ work exposes the teetering edge that binds forms together but also lets them fall apart. It entangles the human body with our surrounding natural landscape to reveal our impact on the environment, narratives that entwine human and nature’s co-dependency in future survival.
Maris received her MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art in 2019, supported by The Cass Scholarship. She received her BA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths University in 2015 and a Foundation Diploma in Art and Design from Central Saint Martins in 2012.
Solo exhibitions:
January 2023, Stretching for my sins, The London Arts Board, Peckham
September 2022, Estou cheia de pedras nos bolsos, 21 Corpo Santo, Lisbon, Portugal
Duo Exhibitions:
October 2023, Dig in, Staffordshire Street Gallery, London
Group exhibitions:
May 2023, (my darling,) ubiquitous I’m not, OSTRA, Lisbon, Portugal
July 2022, Innocent pleasures suit me, 10 Greatorex Street, London
March 2022, I knock on your skin, SET Woolwich, London
August 2021, Superpositions - South Bermondsey art trail, Staffordshire Street Gallery, London
May 2021, Sad eyed chameleon, volcano grey, Staffordshire Street Gallery, London
March 2021, Cutting at lemons for freckles, Skippings Gallery, Great Yarmouth
October 2020, Little voices, as part of Kensington & Chelsea art week, 19 Mallord Street, London
September 2020, Touch me, Online exhibition @touch_me_show
August 2020, Without you my life would be boring, Staffordshire Street Gallery, London
July 2020, Gardens of earthly delights, Online exhibition @gardenofearthlydelights
December 2019, I’m in the bath where are you?, The icing room, London
November 2019, Something written or recorded, Online exhibition @a_space_is_a_space
September 2019, Tall tales of the kitchen kelpies’ soup, Raw Labs, London
June 2019, RCA MA degree show, Royal College of Art, London
March 2019, Dirty Hands, Standpoint Gallery, London
October 2018, Sailing on a plastic sea, St Katharine's dock, London
April 2018, Surface tension, Raw Labs, London
July 2017, Archiving The Unknown, The Rum Factory, London
June 2015, Goldsmiths BA Degree show, London
January 2015, Space 43, 43 Lewisham Way, London
May 2012, Red Gallery Third Year Anniversary, London
Publications:
Moonlight is sculpture, June 2019
Residencies:
La Wayaka residency in Coyo, Chile. October 2019
La Wayaka residency in Armila, Panama. June 2018
Sail Britain residency in Oban and the Isle of Mull, Scotland. July 2018