Maisie McNeice is an interdisciplinary artist working in printmaking, drawing, installation and botanical illustration. Much of her work has a deep connection with science and nature and is crafted using foraged natural materials. She makes her own mineral pigments and inks from rocks, clays and plants, and incorporates organic structures, human artefacts, and animal track impressions in her installations.  

The integration of art and science is central to her artistic practice. She has spent years at biological research stations in the African and South American wilderness, seeking to shed light on the subtle forms, networks and patterns found throughout nature. By collecting discarded objects, plants, natural pigments, tracks, and insects, she gains a deep understanding of the constituents of habitats and how they fit together in harmony.

She is driven by the power of minutia and fleeting communications across space. This could be the olfactory and pheromonal messages dispersed by wind and rain; the animal tracks that leave behind brief histories before being deformed or eroded; or the story of habitat destruction told through the accumulation of toxins in flora and fauna. She is drawn to these entangled narratives, and want to illuminate complex networks through her artistic expression.