Maya Martin-Westheimer
Website: http://floorplanstudio.net/
Supervisors: Prudence Gibson, Scott East
Maya Martin-Westheimer is a curator, researcher, and writer working across independent and institutional contexts, with a focus on site-responsive and socially engaged creative practice. She is a PhD candidate and sessional academic at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Curatorial and Programs Assistant at Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf, and co-founder and director of Floorplan Studio. Central to her practice are questions of place, ecology, and cultural entanglement, informed by environmental humanities and post-human thought. Her work considers curating as a method for engaging relationships between artists, place, community, and ecological knowledge. Her PhD project, Curating as a Practice of Place (working title), is a practice-led research project examining how curatorial frameworks shape engagement with ecologically and culturally complex places, contributing to an expanded vocabulary around site-responsive curatorial practice. Recent projects include Deep Place: A Randwick Town Hall Site-Responsive Series (2025) and Rockpool Residency: Unseen Worlds (2024). Her writing has been published in Kerb Journal and in edited volumes including Dark Botany and Plant Humanities: Theory, Art and the Botanic Gaze. Maya welcomes new discussions and collaborations.
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- Martin‑Westheimer, M. (2025). Towards deep entanglements. Kerb Journal, (33).
- Martin‑Westheimer, M., & Ryan, A. M. (2025). La Perouse field guide. La Perouse Museum.
- Gibson, P., & Martin‑Westheimer, M. (2026). Ginkgo biloba. In P. Gibson (Ed.), Plant Humanities: Theory, Art and the Botanic Gaze. Bloomsbury Publishing.
- Martin‑Westheimer, M. (2025). Deep place: A Randwick Town Hall site-responsive series [Site-responsive artist talk series and exhibition]. Randwick Town Hall.
- Martin‑Westheimer, M. (2024). High spirits at Sydney Contemporary. Artist Profile, (68).
- Floorplan Studio. (2024). Rockpool residency: Unseen worlds field guide. Self-published.
- Martin‑Westheimer, M. (2024). Rockpool residency: Unseen worlds [Site-responsive, immersive exhibition and public program]. Nielsen Park.
- Martin‑Westheimer, M. (2024). Finding connections among the living. In P. Gibson, A. Westbrook, S. Jöttkandt, & M. Sierra (Eds.), Dark Botany (pp. 268–275). Open Humanities Press.