Maja Baska and George O’Toole, both Blue Mountains-based artists, will collaborate on an immersive space in Civic Arcade as part of the Superposition festival.
George’s practice explores themes of consumption and waste, often approached with a playful sense of humour. Maja’s work centres on the deliciousness of collecting, consumption and nostalgia.
Both artists have a strong connection to the Katoomba Resource Recovery and Waste Management Facility (Katoomba Tip), which has become an important point of reference in their practices and provides the foundation for this collaboration.
Maja Baska Maja Baska is a Katoomba-based photographer with a Fine Arts background and 19 years of practice across portraiture, food, product and campaign work. She was raised by a documentary maker and photographer, and developed an early, intuitive sense of light, colour, space and composition. She is known for putting even the most camera-shy subjects at ease. Maja has worked with institutions and artists including Varuna, the MCA, NIDA, UNSW and the University of Sydney.
George O’Toole George O’Toole is a Blue Mountains artist who scavenges wasted resources, looking for beauty and abundance in the chaos. Working in waste management, he witnesses the tail end of capitalist excess firsthand. He often takes on the role of garbage death doula, helping discarded things reincarnate into new forms instead of suffering the eternal damnation of landfill.