Maraid Mcewan

Maraid is an artist, designer, researcher and creative educator, whose practice explores collective emotion through social impact, personal memory, and community. She works across drawing, sculpture, ceramics, photography and installation, using materiality to reflect the dualities between landscape and memory. Her artistic practice has taken Maraid from rural France to the Chilean Andes, but equally, it is rooted in local communities across the UK through participatory projects and workshops. She believes art can be both a sanctuary and a shared space, ultimately a way of making sense of complex emotions and offering new tools for expression.

Maraid holds an MA/MSc in Global Innovation Design from the Royal College of Art and Imperial College London, and a BA in Textiles from the University of Leeds. She has exhibited at the V&A, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, and has worked extensively with young people, and Special Educational Needs groups and communities, creating collaborative programmes that centre art as a form of empowerment, care, and connection.