Maggie Ayliffe

About Maggie Ayliffe

Maggie Ayliffe, BA, MA, PGCE, MPhil is a painter and a cultural theorist. She studied fine art at the University of Humberside and holds both Masters and MPhil qualifications from Manchester Metropolitan University.

Ayliffe’s work focuses upon questions of gender and the feminine within the broad field of visual culture. She is an experienced lecturer in both Visual Culture theory and Fine Art practice and is an active member of a wider research community – having contributed to numerous symposia and public debates.

Ayliffe’s artistic practice engages the relationship between the feminine and painterly abstraction. She has shown her paintings extensively in the UK. More recently she has participated in exhibitions in the Netherlands and St Petersburg. Situated as it is within ongoing debates around art and gender and the current role of abstract painting, her work has been reviewed extensively in the art and national press.

Exhibitions

Publications

     Catalogues

• 2003, Art of the Stitch & Sample.  Embroiderers Guild, ISBN: 0 903562 49 9
• 2003, Beyond the Endgame: Abstract Painting in Manchester  with essays by Ben Cook, David Sweet, Janis Jefferies & Tim Dunbar. Manchester City Galleries, ISBN 0 90167363 3
• 2001, Warped, Painting and the Feminine with essays by Terry Myers and Maggie Ayliffe, Angel Row Gallery, ISBN 0 90563443 8
• 1999, Fabrications with essays by curator, Barbara Howey and Rebecca Fortnum, Norwich Gallery, ISBN 1 872482 38 4
• 1999, Departure Lounge with essay by Tim DunbarPublished in conjunction with Mart Network Ltd, MMU & Trice Publications, ISBN 0 9531919 2 3
• 1999, Harlech Biennale No 3 ISBN  0 9524147
• 1997, Maggie Ayliffe, Rick Copsey, Brendan Fletcher with essay by Dave Ryan, Trice Publications, Manchester, ISBN 0 9531919 - Supported by Arts Council  A4E award

Symposium Contributions

• 2009, Painting as a Material Practice University of Wolverhampton and The New Art Gallery Walsall In Conversation with Dr Alistair Payne
  • Speakers including: Prof David Rayson, Gordon Cheung, Neal Rock, Jo Bruton & Katie Pratt
• 2001, Warped: Painting and the Feminine Nottingham Trent University
  • Artists in Conversation: Maggie Ayliffe, Jo Bruton, Vanessa Jackson, Valerie Jaudon, Rosa Lee
• 1999, Fabrications Norwich School of Art Artists’ Symposium 10 November
• 1999, Departure Lounge Manchester Metropolitan University Artists in Conversation
• 1995, Painting, Gender, Abstraction Manchester Metropolitan University Research Group

Works in Public Collections

• Museum of Non Conformist Art, St Petersburg, Russia
• Salford City Council, Salford Museum and Art Gallery: The Controllers purchased Jan. 1999.
• University of Humberside: purchased July 1990.

Maggie Ayliffe is a supervisor for the following PhD students:

• Simon Harris
• Caroline Pemberton-Crump