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Mae Nicolaou (b. 1997, Dublin, Ireland) is a visual artist based between London and Ireland. She
holds an MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London (2025). She was awarded the Graphic
Studio Dublin Expanded Print Residency (2026), a Postgraduate Fellowship in the Fine Art
Department at Goldsmiths (2025), the CASS Material Award (2025), and the Emerging Artist
Bursary from DLR County Council (2024). She was also shortlisted for the ACME Studio Award
(2025) and the QEST Emerging Maker Grant (2024).
In 2021, she received the Graduate Studio Bursary Award for a Sculpture Workshop Residency at Fire Station Artists’ Studios in Dublin. Her work has been featured at the Dublin Art Book Fair (2024) and published by A6 Books at the London Centre for Book Arts (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.
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. Her processes remain tied to the limitations and materiality of the human body. The works can be read as embodied forms rather than visual representations, due to both the physical activity required to make them and the indexical traces of human culture they carry. With a reliance on lived experience, the very make-up of these traces turns on marking difference. These deliberate processes, developed specifically for her practice, enable her to activate her thoughts and ideas.
In 2021, she received the Graduate Studio Bursary Award for a Sculpture Workshop Residency at Fire Station Artists’ Studios in Dublin. Her work has been featured at the Dublin Art Book Fair (2024) and published by A6 Books at the London Centre for Book Arts (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.
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. Her processes remain tied to the limitations and materiality of the human body. The works can be read as embodied forms rather than visual representations, due to both the physical activity required to make them and the indexical traces of human culture they carry. With a reliance on lived experience, the very make-up of these traces turns on marking difference. These deliberate processes, developed specifically for her practice, enable her to activate her thoughts and ideas.
Works for sale on auction:
Drawer
2025
Resin, Fibreglass, & Garment
53 x 37 x 14.5 cm
Starting bid:
£ 300
Wet Feet on Wet Sod
2026
Glass Panel, Steel Frame, Resin, and Garments
30 × 22 cm
Starting bid:
£ 150
