Credentials
Danica Maier undertook a BFA in painting from Arcadia University, Philadelphia, during which she spent a year studying abroad at Glasgow School of Art (GSA), Scotland. Her time at GSA and in Glasgow is a core reason she was interested in working as an artist and teaching in the UK. She achieved an MFA in Painting from the University of Delaware, USA, and an MA in Textile as a fine art practice from Goldsmiths College, London. She is part of the Fellowship of Higher Education Association and in 2019 she achieved an ILM Certificate in Coaching and Mentoring. Danica is an active member of the NTU Coaching Academy from which she supports colleagues as well as working externally with independent artists. Her interest in, and passion for, the processes of artistic practice has seen her undertaken as well as set up a number of artist residencies.
Additional and alongside her independent practice Danica often works within collaborative frameworks in which she is interested in the balance between giving equivalent priority to both the personal and shared interests. She is co-lead with artist Andrew Bracey on a long-term artistic research project Bummock: New Artistic Responses to Unseen Parts of the Archive. Through artists’ residencies working within archives and collections this project seeks to investigate, research and use unseen parts of archives as catalysts for the creation of new artworks, while exploring the development of a ‘control rummage’ methodology for researching the unseen/unknown.
Danica and composer Dr. Martin Scheuregger are currently working on an ongoing ACE funded project Score: Mechanical Asynchronicity. This project brings together shared interests of the disrupted repetition, the glitch and line and sees newly developed graphic scores explored with a small ensemble of musicians, creating a multichannel / ensemble piece incorporating both musician and recording (vinyl). She is also part of the artist group Returns with Andrew Brown, Joanne Lee and Christine Stevens. An established collective of artists who have sustained a dialogue since 2014. The group is interested in the problems and possible futures of post-industrial cities and their communities, and in the role of making and craft skills therein. Returns formed out of and links back to the international partnership project—Topographies of the Obsolete. With Emma Cocker, she co-led the No Telos research project which seeks to explore the journey of artistic process rather than outcome. The project partners included artists and academics from NTU, Bath School of Art, and The Museum of Loss and Renewal. The publication No Telos! was launched as part of the Convocation: On Expanded Language – Based Practices within the Research Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale.
During the first year of Covid lockdown, Danica set up three online artist residencies with artist Louisa Chambers. The first iteration called Swifts: A Virtual Residency has fostered two more online residencies (Swallows and Bee Eaters) with the core focus on developing creative practice without any pressures of outcome.
Education & Qualifications
2019 ILM level 5 Certificate in Coaching and Mentoring, ILM with Challenge Consulting; London, UK
2016 FHEA, Nottingham Trent University; Nottingham, UK
2002 Goldsmiths College, MA Textiles; London, UK
1998 University of Delaware, MFA Painting; Newark, USA
1993–1994 Glasgow School of Art (Student Exchange), Painting Department; Glasgow, Scotland
1995 Arcadia University, BFA Painting; Pennsylvania USA
Appointments
2017–ongoing Associate Professor in Fine Art, Nottingham Trent University; Nottingham, UK
2005–2017 Senior Lecturer, Nottingham Trent University, Fine Art Department; Nottingham, UK
2002–2007 Goldsmiths College, Associate Lecturer Postgraduate Textiles; London, UK
2003–2005 London Printworks Trust, Workshop Co-coordinator/Tutor; London, UK
1999–2001 Fabric Workshop and Museum, Studio Assistant; Philadelphia, USA
1996–1999 University of Delaware, Lecturer, Visual Arts; Newark, USA
Exhibitions & Live Events
2022 Bummock: Tennyson Research Centre, with Andrew Bracey and Sarah Bennett, The Collection Museum and Usher Gallery; Lincoln, UK
2022 Score: Mechanical Asynchronicity, with Martin Scheuregger, Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, part of York Concert; York, UK
2021 Score: Mechanical Asynchronicity III, with Martin Scheuregger, Prix Annelie de Man, International Harpsichordist Festival played live by Jane Chapman; Amsterdam, NL
2021 Bummock: Tennyson Research Centre, with Andrew Bracey and Sarah Bennett, The Hub: A National Centre for Craft and Design; Sleaford, UK
2020 Score: Mechanical Asynchronicity, with Martin Scheuregger, Lincoln Performing Arts Center; Lincoln, UK
2019 Bummock: The Lace Archive, with Andrew Bracey, Lucy Renton and Martin Scheuregger, Constance Howard Gallery, Goldsmiths; London, UK
2019 Score: Mechanical Asynchronicity, with Martin Scheuregger, Mansions of the Future; Lincoln, UK
2019 Score: Mechanical Asynchronicity, with Martin Scheuregger and the Dark Inventions ensemble, The Space at Nottingham Contemporary as part of programming for Still Undead; the Nottingham chapter of the Bauhaus Imaginista international project, 27+ 28 September; Nottingham, UK
2019 Bummock: Tennyson Art Walk, with Andrew Bracey and Sarah Bennett, North Kesteven walking festival; Waddington, UK
2019 Bummock: The Lace Archive, with Andrew Bracey and Lucy Renton, Constance Howard Gallery; London, UK
2019 Bummock: The Lace Archive, with Andrew Bracey and Lucy Renton, Ruskin Gallery; Cambridge, UK
2018 Re-turning, with Andrew Brown, Joanne lee, and Christine Stevens, Airspace Gallery; Stoke-on-Trent, UK
2018 Bummock: The Lace Archive, with Andrew Bracey and Lucy Renton, Backlit Gallery; Nottingham, UK
2017 There but Different, with Andrew Bracey and Gerard Williams, Cornerstone Gallery, Hope University; Liverpool, UK
2016 In return(s), Sheffield Institute of Art; Sheffield, UK
2015 Returns, Bonington Gallery; Nottingham, UK
2014 Stitch & Peacock, solo exhibition at The Collection and Usher Gallery; Lincoln, UK
2014 2nd Supper Redux, Terry O’Toole Theater, Lincolnshire, as part of the Creating a Scene exhibition, held and organized by the National Centre for Craft and Design, in Collaboration with The Postmethodist’s art group; Lincolnshire, UK
2012 Shot, The Broadcaster; Waddington, Lincolnshire, UK
2011 2nd Supper, Monks Gallery, as part of Lincoln Art Program’s A Working Title, in collaboration with The Postmethodist’s artist group; Lincoln, UK
2009 Midlands & Tooraloorals, Solo exhibition at GEDOK–The Society of Women Artists Gallery; Karlsruhe, Germany
2007 Unpicked and Dismantled, co-curated with Gerard Williams the National British exhibition for the Kaunas Art Biennial: TEXTILE 07, National Museum of M.K. Ciurlionis; Kaunas, Lithuania
2006 Hortus, two-person show with Jane Thruley.Surface Gallery; Nottingham, England
2005 Intraducible, Solo Exhibition, Museum/Museo del Barro; Asuncion, Paraguay
2005 Intraducible, Universidad de Artes Ciencias y Comunicación Gallery; Santiago, Chile
2005 Untranslatable, Constance Howard Resource and Research Centre Gallery; London, UK
2005 Adam and Eve it, two-person show with Miranda Whall, London Printworks Trust; London, UK
2004 Danica Maier, solo exhibition, Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture; Karachi, Pakistan
2004 Crown & Feathers, solo exhibition, Vox Populi Gallery; Philadelphia, USA
2001 Danica Maier, solo exhibition, Vox Populi Gallery; Philadelphia, USA
Group Exhibitions
2022 Experiential Translation, Somerset House; London, UK
2022 May Show, X-Church Arts Centre; Gainsborough, UK
2020 Enough is Defiantly Enough, Oceans Apart Gallery, Salford and Pineapple Black; Middlesbrough, UK
2020 Asunciones/Himmelfahrten: Positions on women and society from Paraguay and Germany, Cultural Center of the Republic, CCR Cabildo, Asunción of Paraguay Paraguayan-German Cultural Institute/Goethe Zentrum
2019 Party Line, 201 Telephone Box Gallery; Strathkinnes, Scotland
2019 No Telos!, performance and publication launch events as part of the Convocation within the Research Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale; Venice, Italy
2019 A Share of a Future, Library and Campus, China University of Mining and Technology; Beijing, China
2019 Enough is Definitely Enough, General Practice; Lincoln, UK
2018 Urban Sounding, Performance event as part of Lincoln Performing Art Centre’s POPOUT Festival; Lincoln, UK
2018 Decriminalising Ornament, Ruskin Gallery; Cambridge, UK
2017 Midpointness, Airspace Gallery; Stoke on Trent, UK
2016 De/Structured, Backlit Gallery, as part of Kunstpodium T Apprentice/Master international project; Nottingham, UK
2014–15 Castle Open, Nottingham Castle Museum, Selected by Sean Edwards, Antony Micallef, Kirsty Ogg; Nottingham, UK
2013 The Site is the Question, Airspace Gallery, laboratory exhibition of initial research for the Topographies of the Obsolete; Stoke-on-Trent, UK
2013 Topographies of the Obsolete: Vociferous Void, in the British Ceramics Biennale, Spode factory; Stoke on Trent, UK
2012 X, Over + Out Gallery; Lincoln, UK
2011 Castle Open, Nottingham Castle Museum, Selected by Sheila MacGregor, Dan Perfect, Lina Peterson; Nottingham, UK
2011 Evolution of Stitch, Wallner Gallery at Lakeside Arts Centre; Nottingham, UK
2011 Opem, Selected by Alan Parker, Deanna Petherbridge, Richard Wilson, Collection and Usher Gallery; Lincoln, UK
2010 Closely Held Secrets, Bonington Gallery; Nottingham, UK
2009 B. Noticed, The Broadcaster, Group exhibition in collaboration with the Postmethodists, Wellingore & Waddington; Lincolnshire, UK
2009 Make Shift & Bend, Café Gallery; London, UK
2008 Drawing Out, Bonington Gallery; Nottingham, UK
2008 Parade: Stuff Happens, selected by Leo Fitzmaurice, Angel Row Gallery; Nottingham, UK
2008 On Time: East Wing Collection 8, Courtauld Institute of Art; London, UK
2006 My Solo Show: Xulia Duran-Rodriguez, group exhibition in The Side Room @ Beyond the Valley; London, UK
2006 Art: Visual Artists from the UK, Art Center Gallery at Chung-Ang University; Seoul, Korea
2005 Kaunas Art Biennial: Textile ’05, (Award winner), M. Zilinskas Art Museum; Kaunas, Lithuania
2005 Diverse and Similar: Reflections on sexual otherness, Spanish Cultural Center; Asuncion, Paraguay
2004 …dreaming of a white…, exhibited and co-curated with Gerard Williams, Arts & Business; London, UK
2003 CO/OP, Vox Populi Gallery; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
2002 Mobiliver/Bookmobile, traveling exhibition throughout the USA and Canada stopping at art galleries, bookshops, Universities and Museums
2002 Random Cross Stitch, Pop-up gallery, 33 Monmouth St; London, UK
2001 Works on Paper, Arcadia University Gallery; Glenside, Pennsylvania, USA
2001 Blunt, Butcher Shop Gallery; Chicago, Illinois, USA
2001 May Bride, Painted Bride Art Center; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
2001 Drive Slowly, Space 1026, Exhibition of artists books; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
2000 Fresh Blood, Curated by Shelley Spector and Andrew Jeffrey Wright, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Artist Residencies
2022 Place, People and Time: Drawing into Being, leading this residency in partnership with The Museum of Loss and Renewal; Collemacchia, Italy
2021 Bee Eaters: A Virtual Residency, co-lead with Louisa Chambers
2021 Bummock: Tennyson, Ringmore Hall; Devon, UK
2021 Swallows: A Virtual Residency, co-lead with Louisa Chambers
2020 Swifts: A Virtual Residency, co-lead with Louisa Chambers
2019 Hospitalfield, Interdisciplinary Residency; Arbroath, Scotland
2019 Project Space +, Bummock: Tennyson Research Centre, with Sarah Bennett and Andrew Bracey, Lincoln, UK
2018 Primary Project Space1, Returns, with the Returns artist group; Nottingham, UK
2018 Airspace Gallery, Returns research and development, with the Returns artists group; Stoke on Trent, UK
2017 No Telos, intensive short inter-institutional artistic project focusing on the process of art practice, held during the Venice Biennale; Venice, Italy
2016 Hartlane Gallery, Bummock: The Lace Archive, with Andrew Bracey and Lucy Renton; London, UK
2015–17 The Lace Archive, A pilot research residency as part of the Bummock: Artists in Archives project, Nottingham Trent University; Nottingham, UK
2014 The Collection Museum’s Textile Archive Research Residency; Lincoln, UK
2013 Drawology exhibition Bonginton Gallery, invited by curator Dr. Deborah Harty to be In Residence of and respond to the exhibition; Nottingham, UK
2013 Topographies of the Obsolete, residency in the abandoned Spode factory, led by Bergen Academy of Art; Stoke on Trent, UK
2012 Resurrecting the Obsolete, located in the abandoned Spode factory, led by Bergen Academy of Art; Stoke on Trent, UK
2005 Braziers International Artist Workshop; Oxfordshire, UK
2005 Fundación Migliorisi; Asuncion, Paraguay
2004 VASL Artists’ Collective with Gasworks, Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture; Karachi, Pakistan with Gasworks & London, UK
2000 Fabric Workshop and Museum artist’s apprenticeship; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Publications
2023 “Unrepeating-repeat: reversal, once more, seek-seek afresh.” In Pattern and Chaos: Meaning and Making, edited by Victoria Mitchel and Sarah Horton. Bristol: Intellect publishing
2023 Score: Mechanical Asynchronicity. With Martin Scheuregger, Daniela Cascella, and Lauren Redhead. Nottingham: Beam Editions
2023 Re-turning. With Andrew Brown, Joanne Lee, and Christine Stevens (co-edited with Joanne Lee). By Topographies of the Obsolete. Norway: Bergen Academy of Art and Design
2022 Bummock: Tennyson Research Centre. With Sarah Bennett, Andrew Bracey and texts by Sian Vaughan, Sue Breakell, Jim Cheshire, Jenny Gleadell, Lucy Lumb. Waddington: Flipping the Bummock Press
2020 Topographies of the Obsolete: Phase Two: Rhizomatic Trajectories. Edited by Neil Brownsword. Norway: Bergen Academy of Art and Design
2019 No Telos. A Score/Manual in the form of an artist publication, with the No Telos group
2018 Bummock: The Lace Archive. Waddington: Flipping the Bummock Press
2016 Grafting Propriety: From Stitch to the Drawn Line. Focused on my drawing research and practice. London: Black Dog Publications
2015 “Forsaken Decoration.” In Topographies of the Obsolete: Site Reflections. Edited by Anne-Helen Mydland and Neil Brownsword. Norway: Bergen Academy of Art.
2014 “Drawology exhibition publication.” In Residence response
2014 On Returning. Edited by Nitkiene. V, Kaunas Textiles Biennale: Unitext. Kaunas: NGO Kaunas Biennial
2014 Review of Kaunas Textiles Biennale: Unitext. In Craft Research, Vol 5.1
2013 Topographies of the Obsolete: Vociferous Void. Edited by Anne-Helen Mydland and Neil Brownsword. Stoke on Trent: Topographies of the Obsolete Publications
2008 On Time: The East Wig Collection VIII. London: Courtauld Institute of Art
2007 TEXTILE 07: Unpicked and Dismantled. Edited by Virginija Nitkiene, Ed Carroal and Vita Geluniene.
KAUNAS: Kaunas Artists’ Support Fund
2007 Parade. Edited by Helen Jones. Nottingham: Angel Row Gallery
2006 Art: Visual Artists from the UK. Edited by Seonghee Kim. Seoul: Chung-Ang University
2005 Kaunas Art Biennial: TEXTILE 05. Edited by Vita Geluniene and Virginija Nitkiene. Kaunas: Arx Baltica
2005 Adam and Eve it. Essay by Sally O’Reilly. London: London Printworks Trust
2005 Braziers 2005: International Artists Workshop. Edited Nicola Grey. Ipswich: Braziers International Artists Workshop
2004 VASL: 2003-2004. Edited by Naiza Khan, Saima Zaidi, Usma Ghouri and Auj Khan. Karachi: Vasl Artists Collective
2003 Braziers 2003: International Artists Workshop. Ipswich: Braziers International Artists Workshop
2000 Fresh Blood: New Art Now! Edited by Shelly Spector and Andrew Jeffery Wright. Philadelphia: The Painted Bride
Invited talks
2022 Lancaster Arts at Lancaster University, Tuesdays Talks series, online
2019 Wimbledon College of Art, Tell-Tale lecture series; London, UK
2019 University of Lincoln, Artists Talk; Lincoln, UK
2018 Nottingham Contemporary, Lunch time talks/tours of Pia Camil’s exhibition; Nottingham, UK
2017 Haarlem Artspace, Artists in Conversation: Danica Maier, 30 November 2017; Derbyshire, UK
2017 Nottingham Contemporary, Lunch time talks/tours of Lara Favaretto’s exhibition; Nottingham, UK
2014 University of Lincoln, Artists talks (hosted at the collection); Lincoln, UK
2012 Lace: Here: Now conference, Nottingham Trent University; Nottingham, UK
2010 Gallery discussion of the Gert and Uwe Tobias exhibition, Nottingham Contemporary; Nottingham, UK
2010 Key speaker for Beacon Bi-monthlies, Beacon Art Project, The Manor House; Alford, UK
2006 Panel discussion leader for the exhibition Excess, Angel Row Gallery; Nottingham, UK
2006 Invited Artist lecture at Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT); Galway, Ireland
2006 Gallery discussion of exhibition, Hortus Surface Gallery; Nottingham, UK
2006 Gallery discussion of the exhibition, 예술 Art Center, Gallery CAU Seoul; Seoul, Korea
2005 Artist talk, Broadway Live, as part of the Broadway Live Lecture Series, run by Nottingham Trent University; Nottingham, UK
2005 Reflections on my residency in Paraguay, Constance Howard Resource and Research Centre, Goldsmiths College; London, UK
2005 Artist talk, invited by The Art School of the National University; Asuncion, Paraguay
2005 Artist talk for Postgraduate students at Lincoln University; Lincoln, UK
2004 Artist talk by the department of Fiber & Materials Studies, Tyler School of Art; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
2004 Artist talk, University of Delaware; Newark, USA
2004 Reflections on my residency in Pakistan, invited by the Constance Howard Resource and Research Centre, Goldsmiths College; London, UK
2004 Artist talk, invited by the British Council, at Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture; Karachi, Pakistan
2004 Textiles in Art Practice lecture tour, invited by Naiza Khan from Vasl Artists’ Collective, at Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture; Karachi, Pakistan
2004 Textiles in Art Practice lecture tour, invited by Naiza Khan from Vasl Artists’ Collective, National 2004 Textiles in Art Practice lecture tour, invited by Naiza Khan from Vasl Artists’ Collective, College of Art; Lahore, Pakistan
2004 Textiles in Art Practice lecture tour, invited by Naiza Khan from Vasl Artists’ Collective, Textile Institute Pakistan; Karachi, Pakistan
2004 Textiles in Art Practice lecture tour, invited by Naiza Khan from Vasl Artists’ Collective, Karachi University; Karachi, Pakistan
2003 Discussion-leading group member, with Jenni Lomax & Gerard Williams, Braziers International Artists Workshop ’03; Oxfordshire, UK
Conference & Symposiums
2022 Score, at the Performative & Experiential Translation: Meaning-Making through Language, Art and Media, led by The Experiential Translation Network, Kings College and Somerset House; London,UK
2020 Listening Again, (Keynote), Music Department Symposium, University of Lincoln; Lincoln, UK
2019 Score: Mechanical Asynchronicity: playing the scores, Music as/and Process, with Martin Scheuregger, Institute of Contemporary Music Performance in London; London, UK
2019 Score: Mechanical Asynchronicity, Notation for Improvisers, with Martin Scheuregger, Institute of Musical Research, Senate House London; London, UK
2018 Looking Again, Decriminalizing Ornament: The Pleasures of Pattern, 9th International Illustration Research symposium, hosted by Anglia Ruskin University; Cambridge, UK
2018 Looking Again, Pattern and Chaos, Norwich School of Art, from the research group; Norwich, UK
2018 Bummock: The Lace Archive, Textile & Place, Manchester School of Art and the Whitworth Art Gallery; Manchester, UK
2018 Summer lodge and Slow Looking, TILT, Nottingham Trent University; Nottingham, UK
2017 Summer Lodge, Provocative Pedagogies, School of Fine & Performing Arts, University of Lincoln; Lincoln, UK
2017 Rummage to Bypass, The Archive Unbound, Digital Cultures Network, Cardiff University; Cardiff, UK
2016 Summer Lodge developing a space for process, Dirty Practices Conference, Painting Department, Wolverhampton University; Wolverhampton, UK
2016 Defining Process, Waddington Culture Collective stage one symposium event; Waddington, UK
2016 Summer Lodge, NTU Course Leaders Conference, Summer Lodge presentation; Nottingham, UK
2016 WCC: A group, Start of Something—CVAN annual conference—spokesperson for the WCC, Presentation of Colloquy of Process; UK
2014 Process and Practice, Day of the Young Artist, Museum De Pont; Run by the Kuntspodium T; Tilburg, NL
