Maura Doyle
Maura Doyle is an artist and writer whose hybrid practice encompasses ceramics, sculpture, printed matter/publications and drawing. Connecting all of her work is a vernacular style of artmaking rooted in her day-to-day life. Her current focus is on her inner and outer worlds as it relates to the forms of artworks she makes.
Doyle’s erratic boulder sculptural works are permanently installed in Toronto and Vancouver. Writing about her work has appeared in the Globe and Mail, National Post, Canadian Art, Art Fag City, and Broken Pencil, among others. She has self and co-published numerous artist books and multiples (sometimes in collaboration with Annie Dunning), including There’s a New Boulder in Town or, Guide to Toronto’s Erratic Boulders for Locals and Visitors (2004); Guide to the History of Beaver Architecture: Sticks and Mud Reconsidered (2009); and Gone: Removed Public Art in Ottawa/Anishinaabeg (Algonquin) Aki (2018) .
Doyle holds a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design and an MFA from the University of Guelph. Solo and group exhibitions include Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver, 2020), Open Studio (Toronto, 2019), Angus-Hughes Gallery (London UK, 2018), Carleton University Art Gallery (Ottawa, 2016), Dalhousie University Art Gallery (Halifax, 2015), YYZ Artists’ Outlet (Toronto, 2014), ScotiaBank Nuit Blanche, (Toronto, 2011), Paul Petro Contemporary Art (Toronto, 2009), Remo (Osaka, 2006), Power Plant (Toronto, 2005), White Columns (New York, 2004), and Art Metropole (Toronto, 2003). Doyle’s work is held in the collections of the City of Toronto, City of Vancouver, City of Ottawa, Fidelity Investments, TD Bank Group, Ottawa Art Gallery, and Global Affairs Canada. She has been awarded numerous grants, including from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and is the recipient of the 2017 K.M. Hunter Award for Visual Art. She lives and works in Ottawa / Algonquin Anishinaabeg Aki.
Selected Available Works
Hallow Recoil installation 2023
3D X-Ray Prints edition of 2+ap 2023, $1900 ea. (unframed)
Stoneware
Maternal Recoil
Stoneware with oxide stain, 2023
$2800
Total Recoil
Stoneware with oxide stain and glaze, 2023
$2800
Soul Custody
Smoke-fired stoneware, 2021
$3000
Double pot with handle, 2021
Maura Doyle
Smoke-fired Stoneware
Double vase, 2021
Maura Doyle
Smoke-fired Stoneware
Family System, 2022
Maura Doyle
Acrylic on paper with ceramic pins
4-Litre Jug, 2015
Maura Doyle
Smoke-fired Stoneware
$100 geese, 2002
Maura Doyle
Paper bills, Edition of 3
Vase, Ming Dynasty, China (early 16C) , 2015
Maura Doyle
Gouache on paper construction: 26.5" x 18.5”
Flask, Late Eastern Chou - Western Han Dynasty China (3rd -1st C) , 2015
Maura Doyle
Gouache on paper construction: 26.5" x 18.5”
Pot Silhouette Jar Unknown Artist, 2015
Maura Doyle
Gouache on paper, maple frame; 30” x 22.5”
Orbit, ceramic pit fired, plinth and metal support arms
Vase, Ming Dynasty, China (early 16C), 2015, Gouache on paper construction 21” x 21”
