A Series of Sweeps, Rounds and Journeys
Inside the process of performative art
From Planet 249
by Maria Hayes
Maria Hayes describes how the revolutionary multi-perspective art of Cubism informs her practice and that of fellow artist Ellen Bell.
John Berger wrote that ‘The Cubists created a system by which they could reveal visually the interlocking of phenomena’.1 It ‘created the possibility in art of revealing processes instead of static states of being’. This shift of emphasis from a single-point perspective to multi-perspective, explicit realisations of the interactions between interlocking phenomena, was, and remains, revolutionary. In 1965 Berger confidently predicted that ‘the next serious innovators’ would need to return to Cubism.2
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Maria Hayes is a fine artist. Her creative work informs her roles as facilitator, trainer, project manager, producer and mentor. Maria’s work is in national and international collections, including the National Library of Wales. She has extensive experience of working with people with special needs and other forms of disadvantage.
