Danica Maier (USA) is based in Lincolnshire and Nottingham. She completed an MFA in painting before receiving an MA in Textiles from Goldsmiths in 2002. Maier is Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University and coordinates The Summer Lodge a two-week artist residency held annually in the Fine Art studios.
Over the course of the Spode research project, I have focused my attention on the abandoned decorative transfers left piled and stacked away in boxes. My interest is foremost in their domestic/decorative reference, their simultaneous 2D and 3D identities as well as an imbedded nostalgia for time and place. Similar to pattern cutting for fabric the transfers are 2D objects needing to fit onto a 3D object, therefore are cut into interesting and somewhat odd forms. As they were produced in bulk the transfers come in large stacks of 50, 100, and 200 all cut in pragmatic yet curious shapes. Unable to be used for their original purpose, yet retaining a since value, these items fall into an interesting middle ground of being valuable and worthless simultaneously. Within my work these transfers have often become plinths or frames for themselves blurring the boundary between what is the 'artwork' and what is the 'frame'.
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