Maya is one of our ‘The Exquisite Familiar’ artists. ‘The Exquisite Familiar’ is an Access2Arts project that sees a group of eleven South Australian disabled artists, both emerging and established, working together through multiple workshops and mediums to create powerful collaborative art. This art is then exhibited at the Art Gallery of South Australia and MOD., placing disabled artists firmly and proudly in prominent institutions.
What was the inspiration for your uncanny creatures?
Mainly surrealism and psychedelic art, but also added realism for the heads of the animals.
Tell me a bit about yourself and your artistic practice.
I focus on lots of different art styles but I do a lot of digital art but have recently gotten into watercolour and sketching on paper.
Where do you find inspiration?
I take lots of my inspiration from Pinterest, around the city, movies and tv shows as well.
How does your disability influence your craft?
It’s really helped me with inspiration and is a good motivation for stress and anxiety or just needing a break
What food, drink, or song inspires you?
A song that inspires me the most is Cosmic Love by Florence + The Machine
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Read more of The Exquisite Familiar artist interviews here.
On the Artist Interview page Access2Arts asks an interviewer to talk to an artist.
An interview is a conversation where the interviewer asks questions and the person answering is called the interviewee.
The interviewer’s job is to find out about the artist called the interviewee.
To do this, the interviewer asks lots of questions.
The interviewer gives Access2Arts a great story about the artist and we put it on our website.
The interviews can be written for you to read.
Recorded so you can listen to the interview.
On video so you can watch the interview.
Sometimes the interviewer gets very creative. The interview is like art!