Maria Maarjberg – Winner of the 2020 R.C. Lewis-Crosby Award

Maria Maarbjerg was awarded the R.C. Lewis-Crosby Award (€5,000 cash prize). Maria graduated from TU Dublin School of Creative Arts with a BA Fine Art degree where she was awarded the Best Studentship Award. Working primarily with photography and performance, her practice revolves around questions of national identity informed by her Scandinavian cultural heritage. Her style favours a nostalgic expression, and is concerned with shapes, lines and textures. Her photos are all shot on film and deliberately contain imperfections such as blurring, grains and dust, which gives her works an archival and retrospective style. Maria was awarded a Digital Media Award at the Fire Station Artists’ Studios where she has just begun her residency. Her end of year work entitled Belonging without Belonging is a 10-minute video piece exploring the housing crisis and life under lockdown.