Lot 114 - Maya Simms - Revelation
Charcoal on paper
2025
A6 (10x15cm)
Original Artwork
Signed on Verso
Curated by Moriah Ogunbiyi
About
Maya Simms is a British artist based in East London.
Maya is influenced by the multifaceted nature of her personal relationship to culture, and the wider experience, looking at her connection with Jamaica and England, and its dark interweaving history.
She aims to reveal some less talked about, brutal realties of the colonisation of Jamaica and West Africa, investigating this in painting, whilst, subverting the traditional materials used in western art. Maya uses sugar as a catalyst within a painting as a surface itself, breaking down its production and history through different experimental modes of rendering an image. Whether it is through oil paint, wooden / sugar sculptures, or videography.
Education
2020 - 2023
BFA in Fine Art, Slade School of Fine Art, London, England
2019 - 2020
Foundation Fine Art Diploma, Royal Drawing School, Trinity Buoy Wharf, England
Group Exhibitions
How Do We Reconcile', Copeland Gallery, London, England
Awards
2023
Prankerd Jones Prize, Slade School of Fine Art
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