Maya Rose Edwards (b.1999) is a visual artist based in Glasgow working across conceptual sculpture, public art and participatory practice. Having graduated in 2021 with a degree in Sculpture & Environmental Art from the Glasgow School of Art, Maya is the recipient of Origins Arts Festival ‘Best Young Practitioner’ 2018, Emerging Artist Residency with Culture Collective 2021, RSA New Contemporaries selection 2023, received Creative Scotland’s Youth Arts Bursary 2022, Mount Stuart Trust Socially Engaged Artist in Residence (Isle of Bute, 2022/3) and is a member of the 2022/3 cohort of The School of The Damned.
I punctuate unexpected spaces with aesthetic encounters and poetics as a form of self-revelation. Scrutinizing structures through commentary, intervention and metaphor, I want to establish how objects stand in place for us; challenging the sequence of the everyday to occupy the boundary between self and other.
‘TWOFOLD’ is an interrogation of Queer/ Rural ubiquitous identities and landscapes. The only definition of rural is what urban is not, not unlike queerness, the only certainty is difference. The language of rurality is that of invention and exploration and through a presentation of entrances, exits, horizons and passages, I aim to reveal the mimeses between two seemingly opposing identities.
