Welcome to Maia Lyon-Daw's archive.
Maia Lyon-Daw is a British artist and performer living and working in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Though employing a diverse range of media, the main focus in her work is the marriage of performance, ritual, music and writings with a special interest in exploring esoteric concepts. A core element throughout much of her practice is the transposing of ideas through various marinades, to present them in a new light thus providing new insights and questions.
She recently completed an MA in Western Esotericism in the department of the History of Hermetic Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam.
.:BFA Audiovisual Arts from Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, 2009:.
.:European Exchange Academy Residency, Berlin, August 2007:.
.:BA Religious Studies and Philosophy from University of Stirling, 2005:.
In February 2010 she travelled to India to work on projects for an artist residency exhibition on (Annie) Besant Nagar Beach, Chennai. In Summer 2010 she participated in the Iceland Residency Flateyri/Reykjavik culminating with Kaosmosis: an international group Show at Kling og Bang Gallery, Reykjavik. In March 2011 she began new projects in Yogyakarta and Bali, Indonesia, which will be developed and exhibited later in the year.
She is currently active in the performance outfits Sapphire Dice; The Wolf, Death and the Acorn; Treehouse; Avelãs Noise Quartet (DNK); and in numerous other collaborations.
She is the founder of Cottage Industry, a small event platform and record label that acts as an umbrella for local art, experimental performances and lo-fi musical acts, organising events and releases. This is currently in the process of metamorphosing into Sapphire Dice Project Space.
