Exhibition Design +
Illustration
FEATURED PROJECTS
Maria Mosquera is an Eora/Sydney-based independent creative specialising in exhibition design, editorial design and illustration for the arts and cultural sector across Australia.
EXHIBITION DESIGN • VISUAL IDENTITY • EXHIBITION GRAPHICS • ILLUSTRATION
Australian Love Stories
Home of the Arts HOTA - Gold Coast QLD: Studio to Street charts the design and cultural journey of sneakers. Discover the footwear phenomenon that’s challenged performance design, inspired subcultures, and shaken the world of fashion.
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EXHIBITION GRAPHICS • ILLUSTRATION
Sneakers Unboxed
Home of the Arts HOTA - Gold Coast QLD: Studio to Street charts the design and cultural journey of sneakers. Discover the footwear phenomenon that’s challenged performance design, inspired subcultures, and shaken the world of fashion.
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EXHIBITION DESIGN • ILLUSTRATION
Customs House Historical Display
Customs House - Circular Quay NSW: Had the absolute pleasure to work with the Customs House team and @cityofsydney historians, on a historical display about this treasured landmark in our city! Collages, wallpaper and brochure take you through the history of the Customs House.
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EXHIBITION DESIGN • EXHIBITION GRAPHICS
Good Natured
Australian Design Centre - Darlinghurst NSW: Design Art Architecture celebrates creative projects by designers, artists and architects working to design a better future. These practitioners are focussed on creating outcomes that are both beautiful and good for the planet.
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VISUAL IDENTITY • EXHIBITION GRAPHICS • ILLUSTRATION
Apollo 11
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney: Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing, Apollo 11 at the Powerhouse Museum showcases more than 200 objects that where part, influenced and inspired this great event.
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VISUAL IDENTITY • EXHIBITION GRAPHICS • ILLUSTRATION
Megafauna Central
This new paleontological display in Alice Springs showcases a large range of megafauna fossils found at Alcoota, Central Australia. A cohesive visual identity was developed that evokes the diversity of the specimens and reflects on a world lost in time.
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EXHIBITION GRAPHICS • ILLUSTRATION
Colour your imagination
HOTA Gold Coast: From the imagination of beloved Gold Coast artist Victoria Reichelt, HOTA has created a colourful world of books for you to explore in the Children’s Gallery. For Victoria, libraries and their treasured contents provide endless inspiration for her stunning realist paintings.
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VISUAL IDENTITY • EXHIBITION GRAPHICS • ILLUSTRATION
Fantastical Worlds
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney NSW: Showcasing some of the most fantastical items in MAAS’ collection, Fantastical Worlds welcomes the visitor to another world where ornament and beauty being supreme. Various elements were designed taken direct inspiration from the items on display, small and whimsical narratives start to occur when you step in side, the more you look, the more you will discover.
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VISUAL IDENTITY • EXHIBITION DESIGN • GRAPHIC DESIGN
The Queen’s Album
Governor’s Residence, Sydney NSW: Coinciding with Queen Victoria’s 200 year anniversary the NSW State Records launched the exhibition The Queen’s Album, a beautiful pictorial display photographs sent to Queen Victoria, 140 years ago, where NSW showcased it self showing the Queen their wealth and development. moving away from their convict past.
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VISUAL IDENTITY • EXHIBITION GRAPHICS
Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award
The Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award presents a diverse selection of artworks by artists at the forefront of photographic media. As a survey of contemporary practice, the award plays an important role in representing the ongoing evolution of photography and the ways in which artists use it to create striking and memorable images.
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HERMANA MUERTE
PERSONAL ART PROJECT
Hermana Muerte
Life, like a wheel of fortune, from the moment we are born to the moment we die, we don't know where it will land, only that it will end is certain. Can we make peace with our own mortality? Why fear the most certain thing in our lives?
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GRAPHIC DESIGN
MAGNT Annual Report
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT): It was an absolute pleasure to continue the brand work for MAGNT, this time to design their annual report. The report picked up from previous developed environmental graphics and these where adapted to a publication style.
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GRAPHIC DESIGN
HOTA Gallery Campaign
HOTA - Gold Coast QLD: Poster series promoting an upcoming exhibition at HOTA on the Gold Coast.
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GRAPHIC DESIGN
Dirty Slutz
These girls know how to rock out. They have been friends and band members for over a decade. They approached me with hundreds of images, clippings and fan art that they have collected during their time together. The idea to turn it all into a zine narrating the story of their origins and and the future of the 'Slutz'.
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VISUAL IDENTITY • EXHIBITION GRAPHICS • ILLUSTRATION
Feared and Revered
Feared and Revered: Feminine Power through the Ages celebrated the power and diversity of female spiritual beings in cultural traditions and beliefs across the globe. This exhibition from the British Museum explored how goddesses, demons, witches, spirits and saints have shaped our understanding of the world.
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