Stuart Mayes

Vintage gay pornographic magazine pages, variable dimensions, 2019

(Work in progress)

Wall mounted sculpture: vhs video tape (childrens’ films, Swedish, donated by a school), 80 cm ø, 2019

Installation view: Storabrunn Culture House, Östhammar, Sweden

Unique glitter blend, polystyrene, satin ribbon, steel fixtures, variable dimensions. 2019

Installation view: Open Salong, Enköpings konsthall, June 2019

Unique glitter blend, polystyrene, zinc chain, motor, 50cm Ø, 2018

Installation view: Hit, Målhammar Gallery, 2018

Unique glitter blend, polystyrene, zinc chain, motors, 100 x 100 x n (celing height), 2018

Specially conceived and realised for the show celebrating fifteen years of the m2 gallery.

Installation views: APT Gallery, Deptford, London. May 2018

Unique glitter blend, found door, 2018

Installtion view: Hit, Målhammar Gallery, Sweden

Unique glitter blends, vintage ceiling roses, variable dimensions, 2017/8

Live work conducted during the Supermarket Art Fair. 2016

The artist and fair visitors made monoprints from specific parts of their bodies (selected by the visitor) in the booth.

The work is one of three booths presented by The Artistic Researcher group under the title Hothousing.

Images: detail of monoprint materials and booth interior (top); booth exterior (bottom)

Guided walk, 60 minutes. 2015

Lead by Mr Dandy Blue the artist's walk is inspired by particular locations in Eugène Jansson's Stockholm (1862–1915): his studio, his home, his landscape. The course of the walk presents the opportunity to consider the contemporary urban environment as a constellation of subjective, conceptual, physical and speculative propositions in cultural, historical and artistic contexts

Walks:

7pm, 4 June 205, in conjunction with Walk on the Wild Side exhibition. Department of Architectural History and Theory, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm.

7pm, 1 September 2015, for Friends of Thielska Gallery , part of Thielska’s programme accompanying Jan Hietala’s exhibition The Men by the Water.

Images: Timmermansgatan (top); Monteliusvägen (middle 1); Slussen (middle 2); Glasbruksgatan (bottom)

Time restricted installation with unique glitter blend. 2–3pm, 30 May 2015

A specially produced glitter carpet leads visitors up and into the pavilion towards the water. The piece is an invitation to literally follow in Eugène Jansson's (1862–1915), and countless other men's, footsteps and pass through what was the entrance to the naval bathhouse. The pavilion features in several of Eugène's paintings and is more than likely where he met Knut Nyman who became his lover and partner. Nils Santesson's photographs of the naked bathers might well have contributed to the evidence against him in his trial, and subsequent conviction, for homosexuality. Beyond its modest appearance the building is a significant yet overlooked landmark in Stockholm's queer history.

Installation view: the former Naval Bathing House, Skeppsholmen, Stockholm

Unique glass cast, 40 x 22 x 14 cm. 2014

Installation view: The Rest of Us spring exhibition, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm. 2014

Site specific installation, emergency blankets. 2011

Ljusfältet was commissioned by Wip:sthlm and Nätverk Årstafältet for Årstafältets Light Festival, 31st October 2011.

The project included a discussion on the cultural and political roles of common land. The panel comprised: Lena From (Stockholm konst), Anna Hesselgren (artist), Stuart Mayes (artist), Niklas Svensson (City planning, Stockholm), and Karin Willén (artist and chair of the National Artists Association), chair Po Hagström (artist, curator, educator).

Project managers: Anneli Bäckman for Wip:sthlm; Birgitta Adolfsson for Nätverk Årstafältet.

Publication designed and produced by Birgitta Adolfsson.

With financial suport from Stockholm City.

Images: Årstafältet (top and middle); discussion at Wip:sthlm (bottom)

Anonymously donated gay pornographic video tape, 400 x 350 x 20 cm. 2010

Installation views: MOCA London, 2010 (top); Immerse exhibition at Kino Kino, Stavanger, Norway, 2016 (middle); Supermarket Art Fair, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, 2011 (bottom)

Two mirror balls, motors, spot-lights, light sensor, black glitter, variable dimensions. 2009

Go-Go runs from dusk till dawn, during the day the installtion is static.

Installation views: Quadruple Energy, m2 pavilion at Chelsea School of Art, London. 2011 (top)

Konstfönster Joar, Enköping, Sweden. 2016/17 (middle 1)

m2 gallery, London. 2009 (middle 2, bottom)