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
Purchase at Beam here: No Telos!
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.
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.
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!
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!
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
Photography by Reece Straw
Rightness of a Stopped Clock: 6/8/58 (2022)
Photography by Reece Straw
Sabi Pas or, I don’t know (2020)
Photography by Reece Straw
Live/Work: 1888 - 1958 & 1973 - present (2019/2020)
Photography by Reece Straw
Petit Cut Mill (2021)
Photography by Reece Straw
Ghost Heirloom: Silverware Ring (2021)
Silverware set of the artist’s father’s paternal grandmother Emilie Yates Walsh (1879-1963), monogrammed EYW; 1 new EYW silver fork to match original set; mould of a diamond ring; 2 cast rings using the silver from one of the original EYW forks (one ring is sited on Maier’s finger throughout the exhibition).
The original diamond ring was purchased second hand by the artist’s mother’s maternal grandmother (Betty Burgess, 1888 – 1981) and subsequently belonged to the artist’s maternal grandmother, followed by the artist’s mother. The ring has recently been given to the artist’s sister and one day will be passed on to one of the artist’s nieces. As part of this artwork, there have been two new rings created using the silver from the artists paternal family silverware - one for the artist which will be passed on to her son and the other will be bequeathed to the niece that does not inherit the original ring.