Danica Maier
Re:dRawing
Danica Maier’s practice-based (Candy, Edmonds, and Vear 2021) research explores how interdisciplinary methods can be investigated when the direct modes of production are explored through other means. Specifically, how drawing can explore and expand textile methods, while examining wider contexts within the fields of Fine Art and Textiles. These works from a 2014 solo exhibition Stitch & Peacock exploring The Collection Museum’s, Lincoln, historical textile collection, are a creative response to archival materials which investigates embroidery processes through a drawn line.
Nest investigated through exploratory drawing the repeated nature of a Jacobean bedspread pattern, was expanded, and reproduced through large scale wall drawing. Skien studies historical samplers through an appropriation process translating the works from the 3-dimentional process of stitch through the 2-dimentional process of drawing. These works sought to understand how the pencil line could ‘be like’ the stitched thread line; an exploratory process of embroidery, translated through drawing which enabled a deep understanding of the original process. The intersemiotic translation process found within this works enables deeper knowledge of both processes examined (stitch and drawing). The removal of a making process away from a direct or singular method allows for new insights on process to emerge.
Artworks:
Nest: Pigeon Hole and Tit Bit (2014), site specific work at The Collection Museum, Lincoln
Skein (2014) site specific work at The Collection Museum, Lincoln
Bio:
Danica Maier is an artist and academic currently living and working in Lincolnshire. Her practice focuses on the unrepeating repeat, material processes, and tactics that enable aspect seeing; as well as the dialogical nature of collaborative projects that foster independent artworks alongside wider group outcomes. Maier’s work uses site-specific installations, drawing, and objects to explore expectations, while using subtle slippages to transgress propriety. Recent exhibition and live events include: Bummock: Tennyson Research Centre, Collection Museum, Lincoln (2022); Score: Mechanical Asynchronicity, The Space at Nottingham Contemporary (2019), (with Martin Scheuregger), Nottingham; Associated Thoughts on Line, as part of the Convocation: On Expanded Language - Based Practices within the Research Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale (2019). Relevant journal articles include: Controlled Rummage as Artistic Strategy, Textile journal of cloth and culture (2021), Score: Mechanical Asynchronicity – mimesis and (non-)repetition through notation and performance, ECHO (2023). Maier is an Associate Professor in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University, where she supervises PhD candidates.