Maisie Cousins

Maisie Cousins

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Biography

Maisie Cousins’ photographic practice marries beauty and disgust, interweaving food, trash, flesh, insects and decay into a kaleidoscopic world of colour. Seeing things through Cousins’ eyes takes us into a bright and saturated Wonderland of toys, icecream, lips, stomachs and tongues, smears of lipstick, jelly and juice. It’s our bins, sinks and childhood bedrooms visualised by Barbie, coloured in by toddlers. It’s glorious, nauseating, glossy and stunning. Cousins’ compositions take us into a fever dream journey through a visceral, grotesque circus show. Her practice encourages us to let go of our societally imposed niceties, to eat in the nude, to spill, to smear, to befriend the trails of ants on the plate of dessert from the other night that we left on our floor. Be dirty, be trashy, be happy and be beautiful, all at the same time. ...

Selected Artworks
Bouncy Ball
Maisie Cousins
Bouncy Ball, 2021
118.9 x 79.3cm
Spilled
Maisie Cousins
Spilled, 2023
29.7 x 19.7cm
snails
Maisie Cousins
snails, 2019
118.9 x 79.3cm
Sweet & Sour 1
Maisie Cousins
Sweet & Sour 1, 2018
118.9 x 79.3cm
Rubbish 2
Maisie Cousins
Rubbish 2, 2018
42 x 28cm
Gallery Representation
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