Newsletter #26 / February 8th
Maia Cavendish [jag älskar frukost] x FORA / squared
Please join us at 6pm on Thursday, February 10th, for the eighth episode of the FORA / squared installation series. View the work in the FORA window at 75 Vulture St, and then accompany us to The End for drinks with the artist.
This month we welcome the work of collagist and printmaker Maia Cavendish, with her work jag älskar frukost.
Maia's activation of her urban design technical training within her art practice creates softly snapping, shifting dialogues that sit: now, pressing against the glass of the visual plane, and then, further away, in the hot summer distance. Amplifying the loud vibrations of the quieter moments, Maia instigates an interrogation of space as home, home as space, and the bodily extension of one's domicile. jag älskar frukost invites the viewer into a saturated dollhouse: the interiors garishly dressed, and the garden both gargantuan (we are thus reduced to fairies) and minuscule (we are giants).
More information on Maia's practice can be found at
https://www.instagram.com/maiacavendish/
https://tentwentyten.bigcartel.com/
jag älskar frukost will occupy the FORA window until mid-April.
Further event info can be found here
As is customary, this newsletter serves as a window [into the window]— a gentle pick apart of the loaf of practice. Below, find Maia’s musings on avenues of research and inspiration, served up in a scrapbook of visual and textual offerings. One of the culminations of these musings is jag älskar frukost.
To: YOU
From: MAIA
Dear— ! [you]
C olours + Sh apes
Nadia Hernández—
__was born in Mérida, Venezuela, and is currently based between Sydney and Melbourne, Australia. Her visual arts practice is informed specifically by the current political climate of her home country and her diasporic experience as a Venezuelan woman living abroad. Articulated through textiles, paper constructions, painting, music, installations, sculptures, and murals, her identity allows her, or perhaps encourages her, to create work that negotiates complex political narratives through the personal, the institutional, and their intersections.
Minna Leunig—
__is a Geelong-based artist living and working on the traditional lands of the Wathaurong people. Painting with acrylic on canvas, Minna creates playful images inspired by the unique beauty across a vast array of native Australian landscapes — all the way from the dry sclerophyll forests of the Strathbogie Ranges, to the tangled mangroves and thick rainforests of Cape York.
Studio KJP was begun—
__by Katherine in 2018 after studying Textile Design in London, which is where she fell in love with the process of silkscreen printing. Up until January 2021, all printed textiles were designed and screen printed by her in her Stockholm-based studio. I got my first super inspiring print experience interning with Katherine while living in Stockholm. She (and Benny the pup) are amazing! She is so brave to do this herself and creates beautiful patterns and colour combos.
Streetview Portraits / Agoraphobic Traveller —
__agoraphobia & anxiety limit Jacqui Kenny’s ability to travel, so she has found another way to see the world.
Looking at the world from above never ceases to amaze me [undisclosed locations]
& my urban
design work is inspiring
— making imaginary
basemaps, using
collage for community
engagement, comm-unicating complex urban design issues clearly etc. here are some [undisclosed] public spaces that seem to work - - - - - →
A udio + V isual
Wayne Thiebaud / Ponds and Streams (2001)
Altın Gün / Yol (2021)
Margaret Jeane / untitled sketch (2022)
Family Jordan / Big Grass (2021)
Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori / Dibirdibi Country (2008)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez / One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)
Frank Herbert / DUNE (1965)
Jan Gehl & Birgitte Svarre / How to Study Public Life (2013)
Josef Albers / Interactions of Colour (1963)
John Wyndham / The Day of the Triffids (1951)
Joseph Heller / Catch-22 (1961)
Gary Numan / M.E (1979)
but MOST
of all,
the most: inspiring is /
the places i have been, things
i have seen// and my friends (and also UMBRELLAS).. below: photos
of all these things
See you on Thursday!
Love,
Maia
(& FORA)
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