Maisie Cooper, 22, is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in the United Kingdom. Her practice works across drawing, cyanotype, installation and elements of performance, with a focus on process-led experimentation and material transformation.
Currently in her final year studying Fine Art at Bath Spa University, Cooper’s work investigates trace, repetition and temporality through vulnerable and responsive materials. By working with light, fabric, paper and ephemeral processes, she explores how images emerge, dissolve and shift over time. Her practice embraces material instability, foregrounding fragility, becoming and the quiet presence of change.
Project Statement
Focusing on process-led work, I explore traces, transformation, and change drawing from overlooked details within the natural world and engaging with Gilles Deleuze’s concept of becoming. Rather than understanding repetition as the reoccurrence of the same, I approach it as renewal, a cycle of difference, where to repeat is to begin again, to question, and to refuse remaining fixed.
Material vulnerability is central. Paper burns. Ashes form. Fabric hangs, folds and absorbs. Surfaces hold evidence of exposure, to light, heat, touch or time. I work with these forces rather than against them, allowing transformation to become visible, inviting the audience into a quieter, meditative space where acceptance of transformation becomes central, increasing our awareness that images are not fixed outcomes but moments within an ongoing process.
My practice considers fragility not as weakness, but as truth. Images fade. Structures burn. Forms collapse and shift. What remains is trace, evidence that something has passed, and in passing, has changed.
