Art on a Postcard International Women’s Day Auction - Curated by Carrie Scott

About 

Maryam Eisler is a London – based photographer and author.  

Maryam’s photographic work is centred around the Sublime Feminine. She has had shows with Tristan Hoare, Linley and Alon Zakaim Fine Art (London) as well as Harper's (East Hampton, NY). She has additionally shown at Photo London, Eye of the Collector (London), Dallas Art Fair, Unseen Amsterdam, Space Gallery St Barth, Bermondsey Project Space (London), and Art Marbella. 

Maryam is Chief Contributing Editor to LUX magazine, a Condé Nast title; she has additionally contributed photographically and editorially to Vanity Fair ('On Art'), Harpers Bazaar Art, Harpers Bazaar Interiors, Country and Townhouse, and Vogue Arabia.  

Maryam’s book,Voices: East London for which she is both author and photographer was published in 2018. She has edited several other Thames and Hudson titles to include Sanctuary: Britain's Artists and their Studios, Art Studio America: Contemporary Artist Spaces and London Burning: Portraits from a Creative City among many more.  

Maryam's latest venture is in film – as creative producer to Oscar Winning director, Tim Yip's latest venture, 'Love Infinity' launched on Mubi in March 2022.   

Maryam sits on the advisory board of Photo London; she is also a nominator for the Prix Pictet photography prize. 

Education 

Maryam is a graduate of Wellesley College and Columbia University. 

Select Exhibitions/Awards 

She has had shows with Tristan Hoare, Linley and Alon Zakaim Fine Art (London) as well as Harper's (East Hampton, NY). She has additionally shown at Photo London, Eye of the Collector (London), Dallas Art Fair, Unseen Amsterdam, Space Gallery St Barth, Bermondsey Project Space (London), and Art Marbella.  

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artworks 

With Visions of a Femme Fatale locked away in a citadel of splendours, this series represents a voyage into my past, propitiously centred on my neighbourhood present. Images captured in the light of early-winter at Leighton House. Inspired by some of the colour, gloss and character reflected in Henry Clarke’s 1969 fashion shoot set in the heart of Isfahan - My homeland, Iran, where turquoise-tiled domes of unparalleled beauty are mere extensions of nature itself. Earthly outcrops, fashioned from the memory-palettes of my childhood’s ‘Persian Sky’. 

‘Huitres, Coquillages et Crustaces’ from ‘If Only These Walls Could Talk ‘  

Oh, but for the joys of meandering through corridors and spaces once trodden by the greats of art, culture, music, entertainment and literature. If only the walls in these unpretentious spaces could talk … 

My foray to the iconic Nord-Pinus hotel in Arles in search of the ‘Sublime Feminine’ and its poetic manifestation, occurred in Autumn of 2021, centred around photography and post-pandemic creative escapism. Chasing iconic spirits, with Suite 10 featuring high on my wish list. This particular room overlooks the Place du Forum, a room sanctified in contemporary photographic history by Helmut Newton’s soul-stirring 1973 shoot with Charlotte Rampling, the very same suite in which famed bullfighters (like Dominguin) geared-up for a date with fate. 

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