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Portfolio - Maya Selway

Designer:
Cockpit Arts 18-22 Creekside Deptford
SE8 3DZ
London
07956 980851
info@mayaselway.com
http://www.mayaselway.com

Price Guide

Specialist Techniques

Training College

2008
Artist in residence at London Metropolitan University 2007-2008

2007
Yorkshire ArtSpace Starter studio for designer silversmiths 2005-2007
Association of British Designer Silversmiths. Full membership.

2005
Bishopsland silversmithing and jewellery residency 2004-2005

2004
Association of British Designer Silversmiths. (Student Membership)

2000
Camberwell College of Arts 2/1 BA Silversmithing and Metalwork 1997-2000

Personal Statement

Maya makes unique precious metal vessels and jewellery. Her current collection includes beautiful hand-made bowls, trays, vases and jewellery all produced using recycled metals. It is important to Maya that the metal she loves to work with isn't adding to the negative effects that mining has on both the environment and local communities involved in its extraction.

Maya's new 'Inclusion Collection' is influenced by the Japanese tradition of Wabi-Sabi. Maya's understanding of Wabi-Sabi is that it is the art of finding beauty in imperfection, profundity in earthiness and revering authenticity above all.

In translating this philosophy into her own work, she finds a new freedom and interaction with the materials and techniques she uses. Melting precious metal becomes reticulation, a fault in a precious gem becomes a rare inclusion and working more intuitively and playfully becomes an opportunity for progression.

Whilst her work has been shown at many prestigious venues across the UK, including museums like the V and A in London and the Sheffield Museum and galleries such as Partridge Fine Arts in London amd the Lakeland Arts Trust in Cumbria, she feels her work is most at home on a window sill or mantel piece.

Exhibitions

2009
Desire, Queen Charlotte Hall, Richmond, London
Origin, Somerset House, London
At Table - Part 2 - Lakeland Trust, Cumbria
Design Collection, Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow
Craft and Design Awards, Goldsmiths' Hall, London

2008
Effervescence III, Sussex Barn Gallery, Sussex
Celebrate, The Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Devon
Christmas Crackers, Millennium Galleries, Sheffield
Summer Show, Partridge Fine Art, London
Designer Crafts, Chelsea, London
Cabinet de Curiosites, Partridge Fine Arts, London
Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool
Open Arts Competition - Black Swan Arts, Somerset
The Contemporary Craft Fair - Bovey Tracey, Devon
At Table - Part 2 - Lakeland Trust, Cumbria

2007
Goldsmiths' Fair - Goldsmiths' Hall
Brighton Craft Fair
Indulgence Millennium Galleries
Banquet Manchester Craft and Design
British by design, Harrogate Trade Fair, Yorkshire
Craft and Design Awards Goldsmiths Hall
Collect at V&A (also 2005 & 2006)

2006
Little Gems Millennium Galleries Sheffield (2006- 2007)Ten ABDS Touring Show (2006-2007)
Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow

2005
NAME Stoneleigh Exhibition Centre - Birmingham
Henley Festival - Henley On Thames
One Year On, New Designers - Business Design Centre
Jam Eton Applied Arts

Publications

Public Collections

Metalpleater, a creative collaboration commissioned by Artangel with filmmaker and artist Charlotte Prodger which culminated in a live action film in 2008.

Millenium Galleries contemporary metal work collection.

Awards

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