Maya Kincaid

Edinburgh Children’s Hospital Artist Application

Contents

Introduction 2

Potential Proposals 3-4

CV 5-6

Interaction with Children 7-8

Past Works (images and links) 9-12

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Introduction

Dear Fiona O’Sullivan,

I am Maya Kincaid a collaborative artist who specialises in collaborations with Early

Years and Primary School Aged children, I am currently working in Glasgow and the
rest of Scotland.

As a collaborator, I choose to work specifically with children as I believe creativity

holds a crucial place in child development. I find observing and learning from
children’s exciting imaginations to be an extremely fulfilling approach to art practice
and am highly motivated to broaden and increase children’s encounters with the
arts from a young age. I believe strongly that children in hospital should not be
excluded from this experience.

I have seen first-hand how creativity can help people socially and encourage
confidence and engagement in other aspects of life. These benefits can prove even
more crucial to children living in the hospital environment. The hospital can be an
isolating and scary place to be, which is why organisations like ECHC are so crucial to
giving these children an enriched life experience beyond the health conditions,
symptoms and difficulties they are face with every day.

I personally suffer from chronic illness, luckily I am able to manage it and have never
had to face prolonged hospital stay. However, I understand how much adaptation
and restriction health conditions can potentially cause and how frustrating this can
be, this experience further motivates me to be involved in adding positivity to these
children’s experiences.

It is very important to me that my practice is non-exclusive, I am motivated by

sharing and encouraging creativity within young people and within that, it’s integral
to work with children from all walks of life. I am very excited and inspired by what
ECHC stand for and would love to get the opportunity to work with you and the
patients of Edinburgh Children’s hospital.

Thank you for taking the time to read this application and I look forward to hearing
from you soon.

Kind Regards,

Maya Kincaid

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Potential Proposals
(in no particular order)

Idea 1.

Woven Tapestries –

I am interested in developing a project with the medium of weaving and think ECHC
could be an exciting place to do so – weaving provides the opportunity to explore
texture and material and can range in levels of intricacy and difficulty.

More simple, ‘texture-full’ pieces can be made using pieces of fabric and material to
create abstract weaves and more finite, delicate materials, yarns and threads can be
incorporated to create variations of shapes and lines, outcomes of which can be like
woven drawings.

I think the versatility of this medium could prove effective in that it is not exclusive
and children of all abilities could partake in a weaving activity.

Also, if desired, a great quality when working with fabric is that makers can create
individual squares/ ‘pieces’ which can be stitched or tied together to create a
tapestry/ patchwork effect showing a collaborative story. (which can easily be taken
apart for children to keep their own work)

Weaving looms can be made using recycled card and yarn, materials and threads
can include recycled/scrap textiles. This makes it an accessible activity that parents
can get involved in outside of the hospital.

I am inspired by the work of fibre artists Allyson Roussea (left) and Danuta Juszczyk
(below)

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Idea 2.

I have worked on collaborative projects with children that have involved storybook
illustration. I think it would be interesting for children from ECH to write short
stories/poems (or tell me them to me, for me to then write) which could then be
illustrated by them or other children. Children who didn’t want to write could only
illustrate and vice versa, providing different ways for them to take part.

These drawings, poems and stories could then be collated into an illustrated book
created in collaboration by a range of participants.

Some pages from story

books I worked on with Nia,
Zuri and Bella, ages 6-9

Potential development of idea 2.

Narrative Dance

I previously worked on a project incorporating storytelling and dance, children read

out short stories they had written and created dance movements/ actions to visually
tell their stories.

This could be developed using the stories/poems from idea 2, children could create
dances/ actions/ hand movements/ facial expressions to go alongside their stories
and could choose whether they wanted to read out their stories for the audio
alongside them or if they wanted another child
to read it out for them. This idea creates an
exciting new way of thinking about storytelling
and using your body, however as it incorporates
voice recording and video it may prove
inappropriate for the hospital environment.

Note. This is development of

https://vimeo.com/224118713 (password;
intermedia1) described further in link 3 on page 12.

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CV
Maya Sewa Femi Kincaid (b. 1992, London)
Currently based in Glasgow

Education

2014 - 2017 - BA (Hons) Sculpture and Environmental Art - The Glasgow School
of Art

2012 - 2013 - 1st year; Higher Education Certificate, Silversmithing and

Jewellery - The Glasgow School of Art

2011 – 2012 - UAL Foundation Diploma in Art and Design - University Arts
London; London College of Communication

Selected Exhibitions
SOLO (alongside collaborators)

St Alberts Primary School: Guide to Contemporary Art – Tramway , Glasgow

February-March 2018

4 Years but a Life Time - Glasgow School of Art Degree Show, June 2017

What Would it be Like to Live ...? Glasg ow Open House Festival 2017, May
2017

[...] how to remain [...]- The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow, April 2017

Child Art - an investigation; Research Project , Barnes Building, Glasgow,

January 2015

GROUP

Aporia II - The White Space, Glasgow, February 2017

The Art of Getting By - Scotland Street School Museum, Glasgow, May 2015

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Work Experience

Geronimo Early Years - Personal Development training - Aberdeen, February -

April 2018

Collaborate/Educate – Personal Development training - Aberdeen, February -

May 2018

Tramway Lead Artist - St Alberts Primary School - Glasgow, November 2017-

March 2018

Tramway Workshop Leader - Big Music For Minis - Glasgow, October 2017

Arts Tutor and Workshop Coordinator - Scottish Youth Theatre - Glasgow, July-
August 2017

‘Play Art’ Tutor and Collaborative Artist – (one on one sessions with children
age 4-9, collaborative sessions of art improvisation) - Glasgow, September
2014-Present

Assistant Art Tutor – Projectability - Glasgow, September -December 2016

Art Assistant – Tramway including for the Turner Prize 2015 and Glasgow
International 2016 - Glasgow, September 2015- December 2016

Arts Coordinator for Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festi val Event
- AIMS Advocacy, Ayrshire, 1 June 2015 – August 2015

Design and Build Team for Child Art and Therapy Room – Barnardo’s Foster
Care, Glasgow, May-June 2015

Workshop Leader at Lorne Street Primary School and Exhibition curator for
THE ART OF GETTING BY - using art in schools to spread awareness of child
poverty in Scotland EXHIBITED AT SCOTLAND ST SCHOOL MUSEUM - Glasgow,
Aberdeen, March-May 2015

Visiting Arts Teacher - Greenock HMP; Prison Learning Centre - Greenock,

April-May 2015

Exhibition Invigilator – SWG3 Gallery - Glasgow, April – August 2014

Exhibition Invigilator – Mary Mary - Glasgow, July 2014

Photographer and Workshop Leader; Children's Photography and Port raitu re

Project - Loughborough and London based schools, Exhibited at UAL: London
School of Communication Sept – Nov 2011

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Interaction with Children

In the kitchen working on

storybook illustrations with
Orlaith, Rachel and Maya, age 7

Elvin drawing into wet plaster for our

exhbition “4 Years but a Lifetime” –
he and I standing infront of our work

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My time volunterring with Create at Projectability, Glasgow

Working with the primary 7

class at Lorne St Primary
School as part of the ‘Art of
Getting By’; Scottish
poverty statistics research
project

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Past Works

Image 1.

St Alberts Primary School Guide to Contemporary Art, Exhibition at Tramway,

Glasgow February 2nd – March 11th 2018 – A project in which Maya was lead
artist working with 8 classes (200 pupils) at St Alberts Primary School,
exhibition installation and curation by Maya Kincaid .

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Image 2.

“Four Years, But a Lifetime…” Glasgow School Of Art Degree Show, Tontine
Building, June 2017 - plasterboard, plaster, sheet foam, stick drawings -
drawings by Elvin Best, 8

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Image 3.

”The Art of Getting By” exhibited at Scotland Street School Museum,

Glasgow, May 2015- entering discussion and spreading awareness of child
poverty with children using artist lead workshops. with Glasgow School of
Art and Strathclyde University Research. A project in collaboration with
primary schools in Glasgow and Aberdeen, Maya Kincaid worked in
collaboration with Lorne Street Primary School, Glasgow.

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Link 1. https://issuu.com/mayakincaid/docs/elvin_s_universe

“Elvin ’s Unive rse – a colouring book by Elvin Best” Shown as Part of “What
Would it be like to Live?” Glasgow Open House Festival 2017 - with the
sentence starter “What would it be like to live...” Elvin Best (age 8) drew a
whole universe of different worlds and discussed what it might be like to
live in some of them. these worlds include the inside of a vo lcano, inside of
a face, in germ world and in space. Elvin doesn’t like to colour in but he
likes to draw his ideas quickly. this made his drawings perfect for a
colouring and activity book.

Link 2. https://vimeo.com/220559060

“What would it be like to live in the clouds?” Shown as Part of “What Would
it be like to Live?” Glasgow Open House Festival 2017 - footage of the clouds
filmed from an aeroplane window. the perspective the artist sits in when
staring out at the clouds and thinking "wow, I wish I could live in
them," audio of Nia McAuley, 9, Zuri McAuley, 6 and Elvin Best, 8, answering
the question “what would it be like to live in the clouds?”

Link 3. https://vimeo.com/224118713 (password; intermedia1)

“4 Years but a Life Time, Narrative Dance – Part 1: Children” Glasgow School
Of Art Degree Show, Tontine Building, June 2017 - part 1 of a series of
narrative dance pieces; both stories and dances written, narrated and
choreographed by the 6 children featured, ages 6 -9. Shown as part of a split
screen installation alongside footage of collaborative artist Maya Kincaid
mimicking the same narrative dance choreography as well as interludes with
instructional videos for viewers to learn and interact with the dances.
(password protected due to the privacy of child participants, please do not
share outside of this application process, ki nd thanks)

Again, thank you for taking the time to read my application and I look
forward to hearing from you soon.

Maya Kincaid

www.mayakincaid.com 07858 166 192 0141 321 8417