Their work explores the complexities of the human experience, focusing on identity, self-perception, memory, emotion, and the sensory ways we connect with the world around us. Maake is truly intuitive and understands emotions deeply and with an overwhelming intensity; difficult to define yet deeply immersive. As a result, colour becomes a central language in their practice: a way of making the intangible visible and transforming emotional states into immersive, sensory worlds. Their work is a form of world-building, where fantasy, memory, and emotional depth intersect.
Maake works across spatial design, textile art, printmaking, photography, visual art, furniture, and object-making. These disciplines converge in a practice that transforms spaces into emotional landscapes and an ecosystem that evokes memory and fantasy through texture and materiality, capturing surreal and dreamlike moments while also inviting interaction through playful, tactile forms. Their practice lives between the personal and the collective, using themselves as a tool, a site of questioning, and a doorway into shared emotional landscapes.
Their practice is a process of self-return, a quiet, persistent journey inward to the parts of
themselves they have lost or never fully known. Maake questions what it means to truly be human, beyond the connotations of race, gender, sexuality, and other externally imposed definitions. Viewing human existence as an ecosystem rather than a linear system, they consider humans as active, interdependent components of a complex, living system.
Their work explores this ecosystem not only to mimic it but to understand and reimagine it.
Colour, texture, and found materials allow Maake to reimagine a world where they are not being told who to be, where they can simply be. They don’t just make objects, they feel them — and invite viewers to feel them too.
Through their work, they explore themes of identity, memory, self-discovery, and the emotional and spiritual ways humans navigate both their inner and outer worlds.
Group exhibition Summer Salon at Bag Factory in 2023.
Group exhibition Whatisthissite? at Bag Factory in 2024.
Group exhibition Experiment 001 at The Point of Order in 2024.
Group exhibition Salon Vanguard at August House in 2025.
Group exhibition GotJunk at The Fourth Gallery in 2025.
Group exhibition Between These Walls at The Chairman in 2025.
Group exhibition Woman’s Month Exhibition at The Viewing Room Gallery in 2025.
Group exhibition Newwork at Wits Art Museum in 2025.
