Supermarket makes it’s annual return! This year we are back in the Skärholmen district with more than 60 artist-run galleries, organisations, and projects presenting work from across Europe and around the world.

In addition to the exhibition booths there is a public programme of talks and performances, and the catalogue includes essays and articles by international artists and writers.

I will be running the Exhibitors’ Meetings programme with hosts and guests from Sweden, the UK, USA, Germany, Finland, Denmark, Ireland, South Africa, Algeria, Argentina, and Egypt.

Liljevalchs, as part of Stockholm City’s Culture Night, invites you to a special late night opening of the Spring Exhibition from 6.00pm until 12.00pm (midnight).

Every half hour from 6.30– 11.30pm there will be a 20 minute introductory presentation by gallery staff.

The show closes on Sunday (21st April at 5.00pm) so Culture Night is the perfect opportunity to see it if you haven’t already done so – not only that but the free entry cover two other exhibitions in the same building!

Public Art Agency Sweden has recently published a handbook for public art commissioners, specifically local councils. I am really pleased that my Departure and Arrival project för Konstfrämjandet Västmanland and Region Västmanland appears in one of the featured case-studies.

The book is available in print and as a downloadable pdf from Statens konstråds website

[The book is in Swedish]

I am delighted to have had five pieces from my tie drape series selected for Liljevalchs Vårsalongen 2024 (The Spring Exhibition), Stockholm.

The selection committee for the 2024 show – curators Ashik Zaman and Tawanda Appiah, olympic rider Peder Fredricson, and Liljevalch’s director Joanna Sandell Wright – have chosen works that together make a “generous and joyful exhibition.”

The exhibition features 289 artworks from 163 artists (selected from a nearly 5000 applicants) – both professional and amatuer – across most media: sculpture, painting, drawing, print, photogaphy, video, and textile.

The exhibition runs until Sunday 21 April. For more information click here

I will be moderating one of the ‘philosophical double-bill’ Think Tanks. The starting point for the discussion contests that much of culture is now ultra processed in much the same way food is now ultra processed, that is to say that it has been tweaked so as to make it addicitve and at the same time non-nutritional or even harmful. How does this impact artist-run, and how do we meet the challenge?

The Think Tanks programme is co-hosted by Supermarket Art Fair and I am attending the fair as a representative from Supermarket where I am the Meetings coordinator.

Juxtapose Art Fair

Juxtapose Art Fair 2021. Think Tank. Photo: Mariana Gil

An installation of fabric flags on the facade of the station building.

Site inspired installation commissioned by Konstframjändet Västmanland

The commission is a part of the ASK (Sites for Contemporary Art) project initiated by Konstframjänder Västmanland in collaboration with Region Västmanland, 2020 – 2023.

The installation is made possible with support from Köping kommun, Region Västmanland, Konstframjändet Västmanland

An installation of fabric flags in the the station’s waiting room

Site inspired installation commissioned by Konstframjändet Västmanland

The commission is a part of the ASK (Sites for Contemporary Art) project initiated by Konstframjänder Västmanland in collaboration with Region Västmanland, 2020 – 2023.

The installation is made possible with support from Kungsör kommun, Region Västmanland, Konstframjändet Västmanland

New work by Stuart Mayes and Klas Hällerstrand.

Vernissage Saturday 27 August, 12 – 3 pm.

Open: Wednesday 5 – 7 pm, Saturday and Sunday 12 – 3pm, free entry

Möte med … Stuart och Klas / Meet Stuart and Klas, Wednesday 7 September 7pm, 100/80 kr

Visitors are welcomed into an ongoing creative process inspired by heraldic shields, family crests, as well as the life and works of artist Eugène Jansson (1862 -1915).

Stuart began using the term 'live work' to describe particular aspects of his practice in the mid 90s while studying at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. Transformer marks the artist's return to this form of presentation since making Bed (London, 2009).


Wednesday – Friday, 2.00 – 6.00pm
Saturday and Sunday, 12.00 noon – 4.00pm

Artist Stuart Mayes leads a summer school for children and young people at Uppsala Art Museum.

Taking inspiration from Stuart’s own practice, the museum’s exhibition programme, sculptures and installations the summer school is a place for creative experimentation and play. With a different theme each day and a broad range of additional materials participants are encouraged to explore new ways of working with textiles, fabrics, cloths and clothes.

Members of the Adelante artists’ group present an exhibition encompassing diverse art forms and artistic concerns.

Artists: Kajsa Haglund, Tina Tombrock, Yasaman Sharif Manesh, Eva Björkman, Klas Hällerstrand, Farzane Rad, Awni Mohamad, Blerta Kapo, Pavel Matveyey, Eva Hesslow, Ida Lindgren, Regia Melander, Kalsoom Ali, Mireia Rocher, Rounak Rasoulpour, Seywan Saedian, and Stuart Mayes,

Members of the group will be leading creative workshops for children through out the summer holidays.

Further information: in Swedish

Artists Jessica Faiss, Amanda Selinder, Maria Nöremark, Mireia Rocher, Lovisa Sandström, and Stuart Mayes install artworks around the Möbeln Culture Centre, Tierp, Uppsala county.

The six specially commissioned artworks are installed in and around the cultural centre allowing them to seen 24/7 and thoughout going into the building.

Curator: Martina MacQueen

For further information contact Louise Magnusson, Cultural Administrator, Möbeln, Tierp.

Lek på allvar is a collaborative project between Tierp Council, Konstfrämjandet Uppland, and Region Uppsala.

Lek på allvar | Serious Play [information in Swedish]

Vernissage: Saturday 17 March, 12 o’clock, live streamed via Möbeln’s Facebook page

Artists’ presentation: Thursday 15 April, 6.00pm, Zoom

I am delighted to announce that as from 1st March 2021 I have a studio at the Hospital studio association in Uppsala.

This studio enables me to expand and deepen my participation in the Uppsala art scene as well as offering opportunities to engage with the artistic activities at the studios. The studio at the Hospital is in addition to the studio in Enköping which I will continue to have and where I run Glitter Ball showroom & projects.

It is very exciting to be one of several artists moving in to the recently released new studios at the already established complex set in rural parkland at the edge of the city. The Hospital is a project supported by Uppsala City council that offers professional studios and workspaces for visual artists, writers, musicians, and arts organisations, there is even a resident magician!

Stuart Mayes curates an exhibition featuring recent acquistions made by Uppsala Council in discussion with the S.A.G.A (LGBT+) youth group as well as S.A.G.A’s selection from the council’s and district’s public art collection along with pieces from the museum’s collection.

See the livestream opening here (Swedish)

Lek #2 is showing in this year’s digital Open Salong.

In line with national, regional, and local guidelines for reducing the spread of the coronavirus Enköping’s Open Salong exhibition is being presented digitally this year.. This exciting departure from the tradtiional exhibition format encourages artist to think differently about their submission.

I am pleased to present a digital work for this digital show. The piece extends and develops the site specific installation Lek that was conceived for the exhibition Husets Kropp (The Building’s Body) at Källör, Östhammar, Sweden, 2019.

A link to Enköping Open Salong coming soon …

Image: Enköping, mosaic, Gösta Idås, photo: Bo Gyllander