Airborne (Framed)

Mae Nicolaou (b. 1997, Dublin, Ireland) is a visual artist who holds an MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London (2025). Her work, which oscillates between the figurative and the supposedly functional, finds its centre in the margins. Mae is interested in the representation of people engaged in the quotidian, choosing experience over reference as a methodology.

Her practice examines how often overlooked accompaniments of everyday life are gathered, handled, and redistributed. She collects and selects materials to produce unconventional inscriptions of contemporary life. Her practice employs slow processes such as traditional casting methods, but also faster analogue forms of image-making like frottage, expanded drawing, and mono-printing. Mae is interested in in how printmaking relates to and engages with concerns that emerge from working with sculpture, particularly the one-to-one ratio inherent in relief printing, forming part of a heterogeneous yet continuous body of work.

A central concern is how bodily, one-to-one relationships to images have become increasingly dematerialised through the endless reproduction made possible by digital image processing.

Through her practice, she seeks to emphasise the distinction between the analogue and the digital, not as something purely ontological, but as something that registers through degrees and shifts in scale.

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