Stuart Mayes
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Artist's Statement
Stuart Mayes' work consists of sculptures and site-specific projects. Pieces range in size and media, some are temporary and transient, and some take many months to complete.
The work's raw materials are often everyday objects such as shirts, handkerchiefs, bedclothes, and light bulbs. Particular items are selected for their social and personal significance. They are then treated with specific processes that are more often associated with craft than fine art. Stuart's work regularly features sewing.
Like much of Stuart's work his large patchwork pieces and embroidered handkerchiefs have strong formal qualities at the same time as being intimate and personal. The viewer is invited to consider not only what they see and how they are made, but where the materials have come from and what former use they had. The titles and material descriptions indicate some of the artist's intentions and Stuart enjoys a vocabulary that can be read as both bawdy and academic.
Biography
Stuart Mayes was born in Hullbridge-on-Crouch, Essex, in 1968. He studied Art & Social Context (BA Hons) at Dartington College of Arts from 1987 to 1990, and Fine Art Media (MA) at the Slade School of Fine Art, London, from 1995 to 1997.
Review: 'Favourite Shirts', Attitude magazine, September 2006
Exhibitions include:- Studio Work, Parfitt Gallery, Croydon College, Croydon (2005)*
- Six Thousand Chairs, Crystal Palace Park, London (2004)
- It's Surreal, Stroud House Gallery, Stroud (2004)
- Mirror to Nature, Seven Seven Gallery, London (2003), cat.
- Changing Rooms, Sherborne House, Sherborne (2002)
- Inside Out, MoDA, Middlesex University (2002)
- Guide, St Mary's Church, Bow, London (2001)*
- Frozen Progress, Royal Geographic Society, London (2001)
- Souvenir, Belt - A Space in Between, London (2000)*
*Denotes solo exhibition
Contact Details
Stuart Mayes
E: stuart.mayes@talktalk.net