Mary Yacoob’s work uses drawing and visual languages to observe, figure out and communicate. What follows is the filtering of observation of everyday life through systemic techniques such as repetition, geometry, and extrapolation. She appropriates symbolic visual grammars from architectural plans, geological maps, diagrams, and alphabets.
Some of her work involves documenting the minutiae of daily life in diagrammatic form. In other work, she creates systemic works about architectural spaces that question ideas of urban planning and public art through proposals for often unrealisable interventions.
Selected Exhibitions
2010 ‘A Bright and Guilty Place’, PayneShurvell Gallery, London
2010 Centre for Recent Drawing, London
2010 ‘From the Dustheaps’, Charles Dickens Museum, London
2010 ‘Preambles and Perambulations’, Charles Dickens Museum, London
2010 ‘Play’, South Hill Park Gallery, London
2010 ‘Quantified Aesthetics’, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, USA
2009 ‘Three by Three Becomes Guest Projects’, Yinka Shonibare Space, London
Selected Publications
2007 ‘Knights Move’
2005 ‘Day-to-Day Data’, launched at Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
2004 ‘Equipment: Book of Lists’
Selected Artist Book Fairs
2009 Printed Matter: New York Artist Bookfair
2008 3rd Manchester Artist Bookfair
Selected Commissions
2010 Away Day POST
2009 Mid Pennine Art Gallery site specific commission
2006 Circ Interventions, “Power of Art” Commission from the Arts Council and BBC