We were delighted to welcome artist Maya Ramsay to King’s recently to talk to our Art department about her latest work on the subjects of conflict and unauthorised migration and the climate emergency.

Maya is an award-winning artist, curator and writer. She works with politically and historically important sites, employing a variety of processes to capture visual histories that would otherwise be lost or unseen. These include drawing, film, photography, sculpture and a process developed in 1997 to lift surfaces from sites.

Ramsay’s projects range from making work from the walls of the derelict buildings at Bletchley Park where the code breakers worked in WWII, to working with the unidentified graves and shipwrecked boats of migrants who died at sea whilst trying to reach Europe.