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Mary Yacoob

London
Mary Yacoob makes intricate drawings inspired by systems, geometry, diagrams and maps. Her works includes ink on paper, etching and screen printing and large scale vinyl works.

Mary Yacoob appropriates symbolic visual grammars from architectural plans, geological maps, diagrams, and alphabets. Some of her work involves documenting the minutia of daily life in diagrammatic form. In other work, she creates systemic works about architectural and city spaces that reconsider representations of urban planning and public art through proposals for often unrealisable interventions.  Her panopticon project, which incorporates drawing, photography, vinyl floor pieces and etching, explores the architecture and geometry of surveillance and power.

Mary Yacoob studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and Cass School of Fine Art, London Metropolitan University.  Solo exhibitions include the Centre for Recent Drawing, the Anzac Centre, Seven Seven Gallery and Westland Place Gallery. Group shows include Galerie8, PayneShurvell, Guest Projects and OVADA. In 2011 she was artist in residence at the printmaking department of Camberwell College of Art.

 

Modulor Hakka House, , ink and graphite on paper, 50.8 x 40.6 cm, 2014

By  Mary Yacoob

Divination of the Municipal Bank, ink and graphite on photographic image, 30 x 20 cm, 2013

By  Mary Yacoob

Proposition for Trove: Light Installation/Painting According to Tonal Values, 42 x 29.5cm, ink and graphite on paper, 2011

By  Mary Yacoob

Architectural Pathways, 2012, colour tape on parquet flooring, 10 meters 40 cm x 5 meters 65 cm

By  Mary Yacoob

‘Algorithmic City Plan 2’, 20 x 16 inches, ink and graphite on paper, 2012

By  Mary Yacoob

‘Algorithmic City Plan 1’, 20 x 16 inches, ink and graphite on paper, 2012

By  Mary Yacoob

Modular Maze, 2010 gold vinyl on floor, 220 x 220 cm

By  Mary Yacoob

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