Maya Stocks

Maya Stocks lives and works in Sydney/Gadigal, Australia. She studied her Masters at the Royal College of Art, and has recently completed a Practice Led PhD at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney. Stocks works as an artist, curator and writer and has received the Arthur Macquaire Travelling Scholarship, the David Harold Tribe Sculpture Fellowship, the Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Travel Scholarship
Malevolent Strains
8 May - 7 June 2025 Sydney College of the Arts
Camperdown, NSW
Gadigal Land Curated by Stuart Bailey. 
Artist included: Marco Fusinato, Bridget Stehli, Justin Andrews, Andriana Carney, Tony Garifalakis, Stuart Bailey, Karina Utomo, Joschua Yeshni Arnault.
Image: Document Photography





Maya Stocks

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Maya Stocks is an artist, curator and researcher based in Sydney. She works within the mediums of sculpture, print and painting. She began her career in London as a typographer, designing books and catalogues for Bridget Riley, and later as an art director and colour and pattern designer for aircraft interiors. In 2011, she gained her Masters at the Royal College of Art in London. Her work is concerned with the phenomenology of processes and the artist’s attempt to distil order out of the chaos of contemporary life through the generation of form. She uses matrices, meshes, extrusions and woven forms to examine the ways in which capitalist infrastructures, geared towards extraction and efficiencies, performance and ‘outputs’, have shaped the everyday domestic world around us. Her studio work is informed by her written research which investigates anti-technicist approaches and the streamlined, efficacious, and functionalist versus the human, organic and anomalous. As a curator, she works with chaotic and complex archives and collections of ephemera, drawing out typologies and symbolic systems narratives anthropological countercultural movements through the creation of new works made in response and in turn bud new creative infrastructures.