Interdiciplinary artist and organiser based in Edinburgh, UK.
Email: Hello@mariawr.com.
Studio and current committee member: Sett Studios.
Past directorship 2021-2023: EMBASSY Gallery
Weaving through thresholds of make-believe, I am an intermedia artist fabricating immersive
worlds often centred around fantasy, queerness, and digital corporality. My outcomes
are flexible, shaping itself to the project, often involving staging and interaction, playing
with surface, scale, and texture. Drawing from theatre, I use props, narrative, and
exaggerated costume to explore connection and longing in digital and physical spaces. My work
often involves fabricating avatars and environments invoking themes of fragmentation,
extraction, and nurturing.
I like repetition, chewing over imagery and concepts in different mediums, often combining
digital and craft processes into installations and performances, including browser-based art
and video, sculpture and prop making, textiles and tapestry, and prose. I am currently
interested in physical and digital ingestion, exploring media consumption though ephemeral
materials, creating physical collages from found digital imagery on sweet edible wafers.
Featured exhibitions include:
I Licked It So Its Mine, Votive gallery curated exhibition at Patriothall, March 2025;
U Had 2B There, exhibition and performance at Sett Studios for Edinburgh Art Festival 2024;
Word of Mouth, curated by Maisie Wills for the Scottish Storytelling Centre, 2024;
The Dead Sun Throws Up Dusk, exhibition at Sett Studios, 2024,
Tinderbox Room to Play, exhibition at Inspace Gallery, University of Edinburgh Design Informatics, Hidden Door Festival, 2023, & Sierra Metro, 2024;
Brilliant Vibrating Interface, queer anthology and digital publication/ exhibition, curated and published by SPAM Press, 2023.
Residents ’22, exhibition by ESW/ECA Graduate Residency awardees at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, 2021.
Edinburgh College of Art 2021 Graduate degree show, online presentation.
Awards:
2021 University of Edinburgh Collections’ Degree Show Purchase Prize,
2021 ESW/ECA Graduate Residency award, Creative Scotland VACMA 2023 & 2025.