Maya Ramsay's blog

A unique process is used to lift off the top layer of surfaces from historically and politically significant sites. The surfaces are presented as they are found - all of the marks, stains and debris that are seen in the works are those that already existed. These works capture the histories imbued in architectural surfaces, whilst referencing the idea of walls as witnesses.

[mayaramsay]

Maya Ramsay selected for Emergency at aspex gallery, opening November 27th 2015 - 11th January 2016

[mayaramsay]

‘Blood, Sweat & Tears’ (surface lifted from Bletchley Park wall) by Maya Ramsay features in exhibition in Hut 12 at Bletchley Park Museum until March 2016. 

(1) Maya Ramsay at work in Block C, Bletchley Park (image: Luke Williams)

(2) ‘Blood, Sweat & Tears’ (surface lifted from Bletchley Park wall) 

(3) Installation of ‘Blood, Sweat & Tears’ in Hut 12, Bletchley Park Museum.  

http://mayaramsay.co.uk/bletchley-park-project

www.bletchleypark.org.uk/

[mayaramsay]

‘Flee’ (mixed media on mortuary trolley) exhibited as part of UCL conference on refugees & migration.

http://www.mayaramsay.co.uk/work/migrate

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychoanalysis/01_psychoanalysis_events/Refugees_half_day_conference_March_2015

[mayaramsay]

[mayaramsay]

‘Wall of Sound’ graphite rubbings from the woodchip wallpaper in Jimi Hendrix's London home at 23 Brook Street before it’s renovation. As if by magic, the wall rubbings came out looking like music notation. 

Hendrix’s home is next-door to where the composer Handel lived 200 years earlier. It is said that Hendrix saw visions of Handel in the walls of his flat. 

The wallpaper scores are composed of abstract marks created by graphite rubbings of the woodchip wallpaper on to blank manuscript paper. 

An interpretation of the wallpaper score was performed as part of the London Jazz festival in Handel’s rehearsal room where he composed the Messiah by Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian and Oren Marshall. Hendrix’s home is due to open as a museum in February 2016. 

http://www.mayaramsay.co.uk/work/jimi-hendrix-project

http://handelhendrix.org/

(1 & 2) ‘Wall of Sound’, detail

(3) ‘Wall of Sound’ 

(4) Work on progress on ‘Wall of Sound’ at 23 Brook Street 

(5) ‘Wall of Sound’ performance in Handel’s rehearsal room at 25 Brook Street

(6) ‘Wall of Sound’ installed in Handel’s bedroom at 25 Brook Street

[mayaramsay]

Maya Ramsay shortlisted for the international Artraker Award. The ‘Art of Peace’ exhibition showcases the work of 12 shortlisted artists making work related to Conflict.

The exhibition travels from London to Colombo, Kabul and Paris.

18th- 25th September 2014 at a/political, 200 Union Street, London, SE1 OLX. Open daily 12-6 pm.

See the shortlisted artists here: http://www.artraker.org/2014-artrakers/4586000094

[mayaramsay]

Images from solo show Wall Talk at The Cello Factory, awarded the London Group Solo Show Award,2014

(Left to right) ‘Aftermath’, ‘Wailing’, ‘Weeping’, ‘Flee’ 

[mayaramsay]

‘Aftermath’, surface lifted from wall, 250 x 100cm

[mayaramsay]

‘Flee’, mixed media on mortuary trolley, 2014

[mayaramsay]

London Group Solo Show Award exhibition:

Wall Talk / Maya Ramsay / 26th April - May 4th / The Cello Factory 

33 - 34 Cornwall Road, London, SE1 8TJ

Open daily 12- 6pm or by appointment

[mayaramsay]

Interview for The Written Diaries

November 2013/London U.K Introduction: ‘Maya Ramsay’s Art boldly and with a staggering unapologetic directness comments specifically on the socio-political effects of armed conflict’…read more at.. http://thewrittendiaries.tumblr.com/post/65957090465/artist-maya-ramsay

‘Bloodletting’ (detail), surface lifted from wall, Maya Ramsay 

[mayaramsay]

Lifting surfaces from the derelict buildings at Bletchley Park used by the Code-breakers in WW11. Works were shown in the STATION X exhibition at MK Gallery Project Space (2012), in Alan Turing's hut at the Bletchley Park Museum (2012-2013) and Hut 12, Bletchley Park Museum, (2015-2016)

(1 & 2) Maya Ramsay at work in Block C, Bletchley Park

Images: Rachael Marshall

[mayaramsay]

Short film by Luke Williams shot from inside the derelict buildings of Bletchley Park. Includes footage of Maya Ramsay making work in the buildings. 

[mayaramsay]

The dA-Zed guide to Surveillance

'Drones in the sky, whistleblowers in jail: how art is responding to Big Brother's watch'

Article by Christine Jun featuring Maya Ramsay's ‘STATION X’ Bletchley Park project in the A-Z of Surveillance for Dazed & Confused. 

[mayaramsay]

Uprisings (detail), surface lifted from pillar, 2011

Maya Ramsay: Lifting Skins article by Sarah Carmody 

http://www.jotta.com/jotta/published/home/article/v2-published/1912/maya-ramsay-lifting-skins

[mayaramsay]

Maya Ramsay Interviewed by Zubeida Malik on BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

[mayaramsay]

Maya Ramsay's article 'Uprisings at the Venice Biennale' for A-N magazine 

http://www.a-n.co.uk/interface/reviews/single/3538447