This new body of work represents an exploration of mark making as language. Shrines, to-do lists, snippets of conversations, and old photos act as an evolving manifesto of observation.
…Ogham, stitches, sea caves, moldy bread, skee-ball, mulch, seaweed, stained t-shirts,
horseshoe crabs, tokens, rust, alphabets, love letters, sediment, antlers, encounters, knots, the price of a stamp, rosaries, oceanography, dirty martinis, aprons, hurricane names, revolving doors, gravel, spellcheck, quilts, ant colonies, contingencies, The Wonder Wheel, fungus, time travel, short stories, roadkill, Norse rituals, train tickets, dualities, scaffolding, scotch tape, tails, floods, scallop shells, fish puppets, acronyms, a hiccup, a stain, a bookmark…
Maeve D'Arcy has exhibited her work in New York, London, and Ireland. She earned her MA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins, London, and a BA from CUNY Baccalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies where she received the Thomas W. Smith Academic Fellowship, and the Diego Hidalgo Scholarship for the Arts. She has attended many residencies including Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Saltonstall, and Yaddo.