Her Words My Voice (2021)
Cormorant Garamond is a classic font with a modern twist. It's easy to read on screens of every shape and size, and perfect for long blocks of text.
No Telos! (2019)
No Telos is a collaborative artistic research project for exploring the critical role of uncertainty, disorientation, not knowing and open-ended activity within creative practice and during uncertain times. The project considers different tactics for resisting the increasingly outcome-motivated or achievement-oriented tendencies of contemporary culture, by shifting emphasis from a mode of telos- or goal-driven productivity towards experimental forms of process-led exploration, subversive playfulness and wilful irresolution. No Telos was conceived as a counter-measure to the ubiquitous demands to do more and more — faster and faster. This artist's book comprises a series of 'scores' drawing on exercises and practices first developed and tested in Venice. The city is is approached as a live laboratory for artistic research. This highly tactile edition is printed with multiple special features including a screen printed cover, multiple speciality papers, french folds, Risograph printed sections and removable inserts.
Contributing artists: Andrew Brown, Emma Cocker, Steve Dutton, Katja Hock, Tracy Mackenna, Danica Maier, Andy Pepper, Elle Reynolds, Derek Sprawson Edited by: Emma Cocker and Danica Maier
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Grafting Propriety: From Stitch to the Drawn Line (2016)
Grafting Propriety: From Stitch to the Draw Line explores how textile agendas can be addressed without the use of the material. For example, how textile methodology can be recreated in drawing and the drawn stitched line. Using a recent textile research residency and a solo exhibition Stitch & Peacock at The Collection Museum, Lincoln - as the starting point to focus on a particular aspect of Maier's work.
The publication further examines drawings created during an international residency at the abandoned Spode Factory; research projects involving the use of digital embroidery combined with the drawn line; and works using historical popular surface pattern. Featuring photographs of various archival pieces, early and new artworks, and essays from leading experts in the field, acting as a resource and documentation for Maier's exploration of stitch through the drawn line.
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Her Words My Voice (2021)
Cormorant Garamond is a classic font with a modern twist. It's easy to read on screens of every shape and size, and perfect for long blocks of text.
No Telos! (2019)
Her Words My Voice (2021)
Cormorant Garamond is a classic font with a modern twist. It's easy to read on screens of every shape and size, and perfect for long blocks of text.
Bummock: Tennyson Research Centre (2022)
Bummock: The Lace Archive (2018)
No Telos is a collaborative artistic research project for exploring the critical role of uncertainty, disorientation, not knowing and open-ended activity within creative practice and during uncertain times. The project considers different tactics for resisting the increasingly outcome-motivated or achievement-oriented tendencies of contemporary culture, by shifting emphasis from a mode of telos- or goal-driven productivity towards experimental forms of process-led exploration, subversive playfulness and wilful irresolution. No Telos was conceived as a counter-measure to the ubiquitous demands to do more and more — faster and faster. This artist's book comprises a series of 'scores' drawing on exercises and practices first developed and tested in Venice. The city is is approached as a live laboratory for artistic research. This highly tactile edition is printed with multiple special features including a screen printed cover, multiple speciality papers, french folds, Risograph printed sections and removable inserts.
No Telos! (2019)
No Telos is a collaborative artistic research project for exploring the critical role of uncertainty, disorientation, not knowing and open-ended activity within creative practice and during uncertain times. The project considers different tactics for resisting the increasingly outcome-motivated or achievement-oriented tendencies of contemporary culture, by shifting emphasis from a mode of telos- or goal-driven productivity towards experimental forms of process-led exploration, subversive playfulness and wilful irresolution. No Telos was conceived as a counter-measure to the ubiquitous demands to do more and more — faster and faster. This artist's book comprises a series of 'scores' drawing on exercises and practices first developed and tested in Venice. The city is is approached as a live laboratory for artistic research. This highly tactile edition is printed with multiple special features including a screen printed cover, multiple speciality papers, french folds, Risograph printed sections and removable inserts.
Contributing artists: Andrew Brown, Emma Cocker, Steve Dutton, Katja Hock, Tracy Mackenna, Danica Maier, Andy Pepper, Elle Reynolds, Derek Sprawson Edited by: Emma Cocker and Danica Maier
Purchase at Beam here: No Telos!
Contributing artists: Andrew Brown, Emma Cocker, Steve Dutton, Katja Hock, Tracy Mackenna, Danica Maier, Andy Pepper, Elle Reynolds, Derek Sprawson Edited by: Emma Cocker and Danica Maier
Purchase at Beam here: No Telos!
Topographies of the Obsolete (201,???,)
Grafting Propriety: From Stitch to the Drawn Line (2016)
Grafting Propriety: From Stitch to the Draw Line explores how textile agendas can be addressed without the use of the material. For example, how textile methodology can be recreated in drawing and the drawn stitched line. Using a recent textile research residency and a solo exhibition Stitch & Peacock at The Collection Museum, Lincoln - as the starting point to focus on a particular aspect of Maier's work.
The publication further examines drawings created during an international residency at the abandoned Spode Factory; research projects involving the use of digital embroidery combined with the drawn line; and works using historical popular surface pattern. Featuring photographs of various archival pieces, early and new artworks, and essays from leading experts in the field, acting as a resource and documentation for Maier's exploration of stitch through the drawn line.
Purchase on amazon here: Grafting Propriety or contact me direct.
Grafting Propriety: From Stitch to the Drawn Line (2016)
Grafting Propriety: From Stitch to the Draw Line explores how textile agendas can be addressed without the use of the material. For example, how textile methodology can be recreated in drawing and the drawn stitched line. Using a recent textile research residency and a solo exhibition Stitch & Peacock at The Collection Museum, Lincoln - as the starting point to focus on a particular aspect of Maier's work.
The publication further examines drawings created during an international residency at the abandoned Spode Factory; research projects involving the use of digital embroidery combined with the drawn line; and works using historical popular surface pattern. Featuring photographs of various archival pieces, early and new artworks, and essays from leading experts in the field, acting as a resource and documentation for Maier's exploration of stitch through the drawn line.
Purchase on amazon here: Grafting Propriety or contact me direct.
Danica
Maier
Danica Maier is an American-born British artist living and working in rural Lincolnshire. Originally trained in painting, she later studied textiles as fine art, and her practice now moves between drawing, text, textiles, installation and site-specific work.
Danica’s work is driven by curiosity about materials, language and the ways in which looking can shift how something is seen and understood. She often begins with overlooked objects, decorative details, archival materials, found textiles or familiar domestic forms, attending closely to their surfaces, histories and associations. Her works are frequently intricate and labour-intensive, bringing the precision and material knowledge of traditional craft processes into dialogue with playful shifts in scale, meaning and context. Through careful making and subtle visual disruption, she draws attention to details and relationships that might otherwise remain unnoticed.
Central to her practice is an interest in what happens when images, words, objects and patterns are interconnected and translated between different materials, processes and forms. Rather than simply transferring something from one medium to another, these translations generate new meanings and ways of understanding. Through a method she calls the ‘unrepeating-repeat’, elements are repeatedly remade by hand, with each iteration introducing subtle variations, slippages and unexpected changes. These shifts interrupt repetition and invite close, sustained looking, creating moments of discovery in which something familiar can be perceived differently and multiple perspectives can emerge.
She is currently an Associate Professor in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University, where she teaches, supervises doctoral researchers, and leads and contributes to artistic research projects. She also works as an independent coach and as a PhD adviser with the Transart Institute.