Miniature Art - Maria Walker

Maria Walker is usually known for making large scale sculptural artwork but when all of her planned exhibitions were cancelled or postponed, she discovered another creative outlet.

 Whilst scrolling through Instagram she saw an open call for miniature art work from The House of Smalls, a gallery in a collection of dolls houses curated by Amy Oliver. All the exhibitions were physical and predominantly women- centric. During 2021 and 2022 Maria exhibited her small-scale work in five separate exhibitions.

 Initially Maria found working on a smaller scale challenging but she soon got her eye in and started to find objects to use in her sculptural work.  The selected work has to be sent to Amy who then curated the exhibition, which ran on social media for a month. Each day the work of one artist was featured as well as images of the work in situ in the exhibition.

 Maria says, “it was a very liberating experience as it allowed me to test out my ideas on a small scale, The fact the pieces were physically present in the gallery allowed be to see that they would look like in a real gallery. The images of the gallery rooms were so realistic that it has caused some confusion and people have been surprised when they saw the actual size of the artwork. I am really looking forward to making work for future exhibitions” 

Website www.thehouseofsmalls.art

Instagram @thehouseofsmalls

Images Left to Right

Dolor, “Confined” exhibition, Discarded seed husk, lead flower arranging spike.

Blood Moon in situ, ‘The Time of her Life ll” exhibition

Veritas/ Vanitas, “Mirror Mirror  on the wall” exhibition, Stone, Copper. Mirror

Legally High, “Its my life” exhibition, Discarded nitrous oxide canister, coiled paper with names of legal addictive substances typed in red ink on a vintage typewriter.