Rockpool Residency: Unseen Worlds is a collaborative site-responsive project with artists, scientists, ecologists, and First Nations perspectives. It fosters a deeper connection to place, celebrating intertidal ecosystems and the cultural significance of the land.
Rockpool Residency is proudly supported by Create NSW, Woollahra Municipal Council and Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf.
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Project—2024
Rockpool Residency: Unseen Worlds is a collaborative project engaging with artists, scientists, ecologists, and perspectives from First Nations Australians. The project aspires to a more connected and collective sense of place. It celebrates unique intertidal and broader ecologies and the enduring cultural significance of the land.
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Co-Founder/Director
Project—2024
Part of an upcoming Bloomsbury publication, Maya co-authored a chapter with Dr. Prudence Gibson exploring the dark botanical history of the Ginkgo Biloba tree.
Book Chapter—2024-25
The Floorplan Fieldguide is a curated exploration of ecology around eastern suburbs of Sydney, identifying native birds, saline habitats, and coastal flora. Combining art and ecology, it offers a creative and educational lens into the unique biodiversity of the area, encouraging deeper engagement with the natural environment.
Self-Published—2024
Cool Change (in the Middle of a Heatwave) was a multidisciplinary experimental exhibition and creative discussion framed the changing cultural and geographical landscapes within Australia. The broad curatorial theme traverse’s deep ecology, effects of anthropogenic degradation, decolonial narratives, relationship to country & tensions between old and new.
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Exhibition—2023
Ongoing curatorial collaboration with Lucille Martin on the Phantom Histories project. Recently participated in the Friche la Belle de Mai Artist Residency in Marseille, France, as an invited collaborator of Lucille Martin.
During her residency at the Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf, Maya delved deeper into her research on the intertidal ecologies and history of Burroway/Moring/the Vaucluse foreshore, with a particular focus on Nielsen Park. For the past three years, she has been investigating and documenting the intertidal zones surrounding the park, observing the lives of its unique non-human inhabitants, and studying the complex interrelationships within these ecosystems. Maya hosted open studios and actively collaborated with diverse partners throughout the residency.
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Residency—2023
Maya has developed programs for diverse audiences and settings, engaging communities through curated events.
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Maya has created programs for diverse audiences and settings, demonstrating her ability to engage communities through carefully curated events. Click below to see her programming history.
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RIGHT FIRE is an exhibition of large format photographic work by contemporary artist Lucille Martin. Comprising photographic documentation captured between 2018 and 2021, RIGHT FIRE* explores the revival of ‘good fire’ practices held on Gumea Dharawal Country.
2020-2022