Maya Brezing

Biography

Maya Brezing is an emerging Irish artist working and living in Dublin. She graduated NCAD in 2022 with a Degree in Fine Art specialising in printmaking. She was awarded the Black Church Print Studio Graduate Award 2022 and the Fingal Recent Graduate residency at MART Gallery and Studios 2023. Since Graduating, Brezing has exhibited in numerous shows including The Ladder is Always There with Shell/Ter collective in Draoícht, Unlimiting the Edition in The Library Project and Flesh and Roots, a three-person show in Ardgillan Gallery. Her work is held in the Office of Public works, St. Vincent’s University Hospital and the DCU art collection.

Statement

Taking inspiration from derelict, overgrown spaces around Dublin, Brezing looks at how nature constantly renews itself and reclaims spaces and buildings that have been abandoned. New shoots push through cracks in concrete, vines scale dilapidated walls and trees emerge from the remnants of old houses. Ecosystems, born from abandonment, become sanctuaries for species seeking refuge from urbanisation and human destruction. Brezing’s combination of the handmade, mechanical and found image mirrors her subject matter, intertwining imagery of rubble and ruins with the fragility of new growth.