MAYA STOCKS

Education

2021– PhD, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney
Slow Posters: We Can Change the World. The Visual Output of Earthworks Poster Collective between 1972-1979
Supervisors: Dr. Madeleine Kelly (SCA), Dr. Lee Stickells (School of Architecture)

2011 Masters of Arts, Communication Art & Design, Royal College of Art, London
Visions of Plenty: Entoptic Phenomena and its Manifestations in Navajo Rug Designs

1998 BA (Hons) Design (Visual Communications), University of Technology, Sydney

1997 BA (Hons) Design, Exchange to Central St Martins School of Art, London

Solo Exhibitions

As Artist

2023 Omega/Cost Below, with Jacqueline Larcombe at Prop Gallery, Sydney, October 2023

2023 Non-Systems Handbook, various works: screen print, ceramic, brass, thread, paper, wheat paste, Cut n’ Curl, 11-22 February, Laila Gallery, Sydney

As Curator

2022 Sydney Buries its Past, (14 July – 20 August), Tin Sheds Gallery, School of Architecture, University of Sydney
Artists: Stuart Bailey, Mitchell Cumming, Alex Gawronski, John Hughes & Peter Kennedy, Zoe Marni Robertson, Maya Stocks & Jack Wotton + works from University of Sydney Archives

2018 02: Annexes, Ultra Violet, Sydney
Artists: Conor O’Shea, Margaret Brink, Dylan Batty, Jana Hawkins-Anderson, Maya Stocks

2016 01: Catalog, Ultra Violet, Sydney
Artists: Margaret Brink, Seamus Heidenreich, Livia Lima, Rene Vale, Maya Stocks

Selected Group Exhibitions

As Artist

2023 End-to-End, George Fraser Gallery, Elam School of Fine Arts and Design, Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland, facilitated by Alex Gawronski (SCA), Sean Kerr and James Cousins (ELAM)
Artists: Alex Gawronski, Stuart Bailey, Jesse Hogan, Zoë Marni Robertson, Maya Stocks, IAI (co. William Meadley)

2023 50 Skies, Annandale Galleries, Sydney

2023 Creative at Blenheim House, Blenheim House, Randwick, (17 February–17 March), Group Show

2022 Gefångnisinsel, Stiege, Vienna, Curated by Seamus Heidenreich
Artists: Mary MacDougall, Henry Curchod, Maya Stocks, Connor O’Shea, Andre Piguet, Thomas Kursturin, Seamus Heidenreich, Travis John Ficarra

2019 Art for the Wilderness, Queen Street Galleries

2018 02: Annexes, Ultra Violet, Sydney
Artists: Conor O’Shea, Margaret Brink, Dylan Batty, Jana Hawkins-Anderson, Maya Stocks

2017 01: Catalog, Ultra Violet, Sydney
Artists: Margaret Brink, Seamus Heidenreich, Livia Lima, Rene Vale, Maya Stocks

2015 Director, Studio Ultra Violet, Sydney (2015-2018)
Artist-run gallery and space with residencies: Izabella Pluta, Conor O’Shea, Livia Lima, Sarina Masukor, Cherine Fahd, Maya Stocks, Margaret Brink, Seamus Heidenreich

2011 Instance of Passages, curated by Carmen Billows, Space Fifty Four, London

2011 Catalogue Raisonné, Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London

2011 Slow Cherries, Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London

2011 Cosmos Posters, Graduate Show, Time Shop curated by Livia Lima, Royal College of Art, London

2011 Slow Cherries, Acoustic Images, Graduate Films from the Royal College of Art, BFI London

2010 A Door Opens, Guggenheim Museum, New York Guggenheim/YouTube Play Awards

2010 An Oceanic Mass, MKII 1st Anniversary, MKII, London

2009 I Want You, Il Labirinto Di Cristallo, Bubblebyte, Italy and London

2009 Totemology Sketchbook, Work in Progress Show, Henry Moore Galleries, Royal College of Art, London

As Curator

2018 02: Annexes, Ultra Violet, Sydney
Artists: Conor O’Shea, Margaret Brink, Dylan Batty, Jana Hawkins-Anderson, Maya Stocks

2017 01: Catalog, Ultra Violet, Sydney
Artists: Margaret Brink, Seamus Heidenreich, Livia Lima, Rene Vale, Maya Stocks

Selected Published Works

2022 Stocks, Maya, A Handweaver’s Pattern Book: Adaptation to Electronic Devices and Digital Control, Printed banner, netted nylon thread, aluminium, 1700 x 2600mm, in Sydney Buries its Past, 14 July – 20 August, Tin Sheds Gallery, School of Architecture, University of Sydney

2022 Stocks, Maya, Social Fabric, Printed banner, netted nylon thread, aluminium frame, 1500 x 2500 mm, Tin Sheds Gallery, School of Architecture, University of Sydney

2022 Stocks, Maya, Social Apparatus, screen print on silk chiffon, gold cord, 70 x 120cm, Gefångnisinsel, Curated by Seamus Heidenreich, Stiege, Vienna

2022 Stocks, Maya, Sydney Buries its Past, Orientation, CIRCA Journal, Issue 01, School of Architecture, University of Sydney, pp. 142-149

2022 Stocks, Maya, The Sydney Vernacular, catalogue essay in Sydney Buries its Past, Maya Stocks, Terry Smith, Vanessa Berry

2020 A4: The Square Root of All Evil, Conference Panel: Measuring the Immeasurable, AAANZ, Dr. Alex Gawronski, Maya Stocks and Zoe Marni Robertson

2011 Slow Cherries, film installation, Graduation Show, David Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London

2011 Psychedelic Visionaries: Entoptic Phenomena and its Manifestation in Navajo Rug Designs, Iconograph Magazine, Them Thangs #2

2011 Oh No! We Are All Going to Die!, Under/Current Magazine
Words by Rory Rowan / Images by Maya Stocks

2010 Roman Cieślewicz: A Retrospective, Henry Moore Gallery, Royal College of Art, London. A major retrospective exhibition of work by one of the most influential graphic designers of the 20th Century

2010 A Door Opens, Guggenheim/YouTube Play Awards, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

2010 Cosmimesis, The Final Word by David Gibson, Livia Lima, Susanne Stahl, Jigna Chauhan, Vanessa Boni

2009 I Want You, Il Labirinto Di Cristallo, Bubblebyte, Italy and London

2009 Totemology Sketchbook, Work in Progress Show, Henry Moore Galleries, Royal College of Art, London

Awards

2022 Arthur Macquarie Travelling Scholarship

2022 David Harold Tribe Sculpture Fellowship

2022 University of Sydney Chancellors Committee Grant

2022 Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Travel Scholarship

2016–19 City of Sydney Creative Spaces Program

2011 Shortlisted, Guggenheim/YouTube Play Awards

2011 Shortlisted for Entry to Saatchi New Sensations

2009 Royal College of Art Postgraduate Bursary