Plastic Grass
This show of new work by Maryanne Royle features a playful musing into how nostalgia can affect national identity and blur the lines between reality, memory, myth and belief.
Plastic Grass contains an imagined past; an absurd and fanciful dream inspired by speculative fiction and a wind quintet. Maryanne has been thinking about how a person could become captivated by this fiction and eventually invite it into their home.
The show is accompanied by Lest, a series of music by 6a6y 6, which was the starting point of the visual work.
"Wrap the rough edges,
and the texture of time,
in grass.
the rolling hills of England,
It is a green and pleasant land."
The Feaster, The Chicken and The Palanquin
Wire, modroc, balsa, cardboard, watercolour and PVA
2020/ 2021
The Foxhunter
Wire, modroc, watercolour and PVA
2020
Install Shot
Sculptures - wire, balsa, modroc, cardboard, watercolour and PVA
Installations - artificial grass, furniture
2021
The Suitor
Wire, modroc, watercolour and PVA
The Lady
Wire, modroc, cardboard, watercolour and PVA
2021
"My work seeks to create new realities that express the anxieties, joys, fiction and facts of the everyday through an intermedia practice.
Often-involving use of the body through performance, participation, image or design, mediums to date include performance, installation, sculpture, sound, text, video and photography.
I take an idea and run with it."
- Maryanne
Maryanne Royle is from Manchester, England. She lives and works in Rochdale, Greater Manchester
Maryanne graduated in BA(Hons) Intermedia from Edinburgh College of art in 2016. After this she became a founding member of Edinburgh-based artist cooperative Mutual Artists.
She is now a member, Programme Manager and studio holder at Ebor Studios in Littleborough, Lancashire. She also holds a shared performance practice space at Wellington House in Ancoats, Manchester.
To learn more visit her website.