Maisie Chilton
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Maisie Chilton
Biography
Pōneke/Wellington based artist and poet Maisie Chilton
approaches art-making and poetry in an urgent way to
address, accept and heal aspects of her lived experiences
as a trauma survivor living with Cerebral Palsy. A self-
taught artist, Chilton actively processes and heals
psychological and physical tensions through her art
practice.
Co-editor and production
manager of art/poetry zine Salty, Maisie also has work published by Oscen, Sweet Mammalian, A Fine Line magazine, Chaleur Magazine, Flash Frontier, Overcommunicate, Anthropozine, Catalyst Literary Arts Journal, the International Art in Early Childhood research Journal and ecARTnz.
In 2021 Maisie was awarded The Springboard Award by The Arts foundation Te Tumu Toi identifying her as an emerging New Zealand artist with outstanding potential. Since then she has been undergoing mentorship from Star Gossage.
Co-editor and production
manager of art/poetry zine Salty, Maisie also has work published by Oscen, Sweet Mammalian, A Fine Line magazine, Chaleur Magazine, Flash Frontier, Overcommunicate, Anthropozine, Catalyst Literary Arts Journal, the International Art in Early Childhood research Journal and ecARTnz.
In 2021 Maisie was awarded The Springboard Award by The Arts foundation Te Tumu Toi identifying her as an emerging New Zealand artist with outstanding potential. Since then she has been undergoing mentorship from Star Gossage.
Education
2018. Restorative Justice and Practice: Emergence of a Social Movement. Victoria University.
2013. Bachelor of Education, endorsed in Early Childhood Education. University of Otago.Awards
2021 Springhboard Award. Awarded by the New Zealand Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi.
Selected mahi, experience and exhibitions
2024. September 1st-15th. Open theme group exhibition. Covenant Art Gallery, Wellington
2024. September 1st-31st. Growing pains. Peep Gallery, Palmeston North
2023. Full moon puku. Solo exhibition, The Conch, Wellington.
2022. When the bell breaks. Solo exhibition. Bowen Gallery, Wellington
Nov 2020-- July 2022 Lockdown Portraits of you. Food Court Books. 85 Street. Newtown, Wellington.
2021. She will sleep. (painting). Featured artist/ Cover art for Starling Magazine issue twelve, Winter
2021. Where does it hurt? Artist talk. Toi Pōneke Gallery, Wellington.
2021. Where does it hurt? Solo exhibition. Toi Pōneke Gallery, Wellington.
2021. Art Jam! (Exhibiting as mr violet). Group exhibition. Newtown Community
and Cultural Centre. Wellington.
2021. Live painting at Bush Bash as mr violet. Wellington Central.
2020. Would you mind terribly if I painted you? Solo exhibition. Space Studio & Gallery, Whanganui.
2020. 17th-20th September. (Men)tal health Call & response. Dunedin community gallery.
2020. Through Branches / scattered across the lake. Group exhibition, Welcome To Nowhere festival.
2019. Opportunity arts visits parliament. Group exhibition
2019. Live collaborative painting alongside Briana Jamieson for “Anthropozine fest.” Caroline bar, Wellington.
2019. Āio Ki Te Rangi. Oil on Vinyl, 3000x1000mm. Welcome To Nowhere Festival.
2008. Anorexia. Modelling clay on wire. Andersons Park Gallery, Spring Exhibition.
Publications
2021. She will sleep. (painting). Featured artist/ Cover art for Starling Magazine issue twelve, Winter 2021.
2020. Swim, Less to lose. Verb Festival content. https://www.verbwellington.nz/essays-continued/two-poems
2020. Your carelessness makes me hate myself a little. Salient Issue 19, Vol 83. Disability.
2020. Swim, All rivers lead to the sea, Mother and child, Swimming between red flags. (Poems). ia Literary Journal.
2020. Featured artist, collection of lockdown paintings. Stasis Journal.
2020. Life is reductive. (Poem). Two dead birds. (Poem). Sisterhood Magazine.
2020. Working with young children in museum spaces to develop cultural knowledge and understanding. International Art in Early Childhood Research Journal
2019. Dandelions (poem). Halftime Oranges, Aotearoa Literary Zine by Jordan Hamel.
2019. Small fragments. (Triptych, 3 x 100x100mm, oil on canvas), Your carelessness makes me hate myself a little. (Poem). Haunts.
2019. Black dust in a shell. (Poem). Catalyst Literary Journal.
2019. Fig season. (Poem). Womb (260x200mm, oil on calico). Salty, issue7.
2019. Fill the spaces between us with cement (collaborative poem), At the edge of the garden (collaborative poem). Sweet Mammalian Literary Journal. Issue 5. Exquisite corpse.
2019. Civil warfare. (Poem). Chaleur Magazine.
2019. Debris. (Poem). The invisible wound, 360x240mm, oil on canvas. Oscen Magazine.
2019. Waterboarding. (Poem). A Fine Line Magazine. winter 2019.
2019. Fig season. (Poem). The flood (100x120mm, oil on board. Anthropozine Magazine.
2019. Beet root. (Poem). Cicadas (180x140mm, oil on canvas). Anthropozine Magazine.
2019. Womb (260x200mm, oil on calico) Overcommunicate Magazine for LGBTQIA+. Issue 2.
2019. Babyface (oil on canvas), Cicadas (180x140mm, oil on canvas). Fast frontier Magazine.
2019. Less to lose. (Poem). Oscen Magazine.
2019. Tall Poppies. (Poem) Overcommunicate Magazine for LGBTQIA+. Issue 1.
2019. Sensitive skin from my daddy (poem), I hear birds sing at night (poem), To sleep with curtains open (poem). Salty, issue 6.
2018. Sugar rush (poem), Tall Poppies (poem), Total cooperation with the inevitable (65x50mm, ink on watercolour paper), Seeds in the gutter (poem). Salty, issue 5.
2018. Where does it hurt? (120x85mm, ink on watercolour paper), Loneliness and love (poem), I miss my skin (poem). Salty, issue 4.
2018. Dandelions (poem), Tether me (poem), Cicadas (180x140mm, oil on canvas). Salty, issue 3.
2017. Let’s make a whare at kindy!” Visual art as a vehicle for meaningful learning within the context of culture, story telling and whanau contribution. ecARTnz, Issue 16, P.11.
2016. Cameras: Tools for creative expression, empowerment, and social competency. ecARTnz, Issue 15, P.6.
Selected poetry readings
2022. Radical possibilities of the mind, body, amnd senses. Crip The Lit. Verb Festival. Arty bees books Wellington.
2021. Poetry reading fundraiser for Rape Crisis Wellington. (Where does it hurt? public program event). Toi Pōneke Gallery Wellington.
2020. Vulnerability, florescent islands and resilient teabags. Crip The Lit. Verb Festival. The National Libray, Wellington.
2019. Haunts launch and poetry reading.
2019 Salty 7 Poetry Reading and Launch Party, Fringe Bar Wellington.
2019 Festival For The Future, TSB Arena, Wellington.
2019 Wellington Feminist Poetry Club (May), Fringe Bar Wellington.
2019 Caffeine and Aspirin, raiodactive.fm
2019 Salty 6 launch and poetry reading, Toi Pōneke.
2019 Ghosts, Floating. Exhibition and poetry reading, Toi Pōneke.
2019 Wellington Feminist Poetry Club (April), Fringe Bar
2019 Motif Poetry at Cuba Dupa, Te Auaha.
2019 Motif Poetry fundraiser for Muslim whānau in Christchurch, Fringe bar Wellington. 2019 Welcome To Nowhere festival, Whanganui
2018 Salty 5 Launch and Poetry Reading, 81 Waipapa Road, Hataitai
2018 Salty 4 Launch Party and Poetry Reading, 77A Rakau Road, Hataitai.
2021 Springhboard Award. Awarded by the New Zealand Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi.
Selected mahi, experience and exhibitions
2024. September 1st-15th. Open theme group exhibition. Covenant Art Gallery, Wellington
2024. September 1st-31st. Growing pains. Peep Gallery, Palmeston North
2023. Full moon puku. Solo exhibition, The Conch, Wellington.
2022. When the bell breaks. Solo exhibition. Bowen Gallery, Wellington
Nov 2020-- July 2022 Lockdown Portraits of you. Food Court Books. 85 Street. Newtown, Wellington.
2021. She will sleep. (painting). Featured artist/ Cover art for Starling Magazine issue twelve, Winter
2021. Where does it hurt? Artist talk. Toi Pōneke Gallery, Wellington.
2021. Where does it hurt? Solo exhibition. Toi Pōneke Gallery, Wellington.
2021. Art Jam! (Exhibiting as mr violet). Group exhibition. Newtown Community
and Cultural Centre. Wellington.
2021. Live painting at Bush Bash as mr violet. Wellington Central.
2020. Would you mind terribly if I painted you? Solo exhibition. Space Studio & Gallery, Whanganui.
2020. 17th-20th September. (Men)tal health Call & response. Dunedin community gallery.
2020. Through Branches / scattered across the lake. Group exhibition, Welcome To Nowhere festival.
2019. Opportunity arts visits parliament. Group exhibition
2019. Live collaborative painting alongside Briana Jamieson for “Anthropozine fest.” Caroline bar, Wellington.
2019. Āio Ki Te Rangi. Oil on Vinyl, 3000x1000mm. Welcome To Nowhere Festival.
2008. Anorexia. Modelling clay on wire. Andersons Park Gallery, Spring Exhibition.
Publications
2021. She will sleep. (painting). Featured artist/ Cover art for Starling Magazine issue twelve, Winter 2021.
2020. Swim, Less to lose. Verb Festival content. https://www.verbwellington.nz/essays-continued/two-poems
2020. Your carelessness makes me hate myself a little. Salient Issue 19, Vol 83. Disability.
2020. Swim, All rivers lead to the sea, Mother and child, Swimming between red flags. (Poems). ia Literary Journal.
2020. Featured artist, collection of lockdown paintings. Stasis Journal.
2020. Life is reductive. (Poem). Two dead birds. (Poem). Sisterhood Magazine.
2020. Working with young children in museum spaces to develop cultural knowledge and understanding. International Art in Early Childhood Research Journal
2019. Dandelions (poem). Halftime Oranges, Aotearoa Literary Zine by Jordan Hamel.
2019. Small fragments. (Triptych, 3 x 100x100mm, oil on canvas), Your carelessness makes me hate myself a little. (Poem). Haunts.
2019. Black dust in a shell. (Poem). Catalyst Literary Journal.
2019. Fig season. (Poem). Womb (260x200mm, oil on calico). Salty, issue7.
2019. Fill the spaces between us with cement (collaborative poem), At the edge of the garden (collaborative poem). Sweet Mammalian Literary Journal. Issue 5. Exquisite corpse.
2019. Civil warfare. (Poem). Chaleur Magazine.
2019. Debris. (Poem). The invisible wound, 360x240mm, oil on canvas. Oscen Magazine.
2019. Waterboarding. (Poem). A Fine Line Magazine. winter 2019.
2019. Fig season. (Poem). The flood (100x120mm, oil on board. Anthropozine Magazine.
2019. Beet root. (Poem). Cicadas (180x140mm, oil on canvas). Anthropozine Magazine.
2019. Womb (260x200mm, oil on calico) Overcommunicate Magazine for LGBTQIA+. Issue 2.
2019. Babyface (oil on canvas), Cicadas (180x140mm, oil on canvas). Fast frontier Magazine.
2019. Less to lose. (Poem). Oscen Magazine.
2019. Tall Poppies. (Poem) Overcommunicate Magazine for LGBTQIA+. Issue 1.
2019. Sensitive skin from my daddy (poem), I hear birds sing at night (poem), To sleep with curtains open (poem). Salty, issue 6.
2018. Sugar rush (poem), Tall Poppies (poem), Total cooperation with the inevitable (65x50mm, ink on watercolour paper), Seeds in the gutter (poem). Salty, issue 5.
2018. Where does it hurt? (120x85mm, ink on watercolour paper), Loneliness and love (poem), I miss my skin (poem). Salty, issue 4.
2018. Dandelions (poem), Tether me (poem), Cicadas (180x140mm, oil on canvas). Salty, issue 3.
2017. Let’s make a whare at kindy!” Visual art as a vehicle for meaningful learning within the context of culture, story telling and whanau contribution. ecARTnz, Issue 16, P.11.
2016. Cameras: Tools for creative expression, empowerment, and social competency. ecARTnz, Issue 15, P.6.
Selected poetry readings
2022. Radical possibilities of the mind, body, amnd senses. Crip The Lit. Verb Festival. Arty bees books Wellington.
2021. Poetry reading fundraiser for Rape Crisis Wellington. (Where does it hurt? public program event). Toi Pōneke Gallery Wellington.
2020. Vulnerability, florescent islands and resilient teabags. Crip The Lit. Verb Festival. The National Libray, Wellington.
2019. Haunts launch and poetry reading.
2019 Salty 7 Poetry Reading and Launch Party, Fringe Bar Wellington.
2019 Festival For The Future, TSB Arena, Wellington.
2019 Wellington Feminist Poetry Club (May), Fringe Bar Wellington.
2019 Caffeine and Aspirin, raiodactive.fm
2019 Salty 6 launch and poetry reading, Toi Pōneke.
2019 Ghosts, Floating. Exhibition and poetry reading, Toi Pōneke.
2019 Wellington Feminist Poetry Club (April), Fringe Bar
2019 Motif Poetry at Cuba Dupa, Te Auaha.
2019 Motif Poetry fundraiser for Muslim whānau in Christchurch, Fringe bar Wellington. 2019 Welcome To Nowhere festival, Whanganui
2018 Salty 5 Launch and Poetry Reading, 81 Waipapa Road, Hataitai
2018 Salty 4 Launch Party and Poetry Reading, 77A Rakau Road, Hataitai.