Maxine Xie Xian Xin is one of those rarest of creatures; a Malaysian female sculptor who is also an accomplished draughts person and a contemporary painter with an acute flare for colour. She is as at home crafting sensuous clay busts as she is carving female figures from raw wood. Peacock coloured ceramics, and delicately greened bronze works, equally interest Maxine’s creativity, using whatever materials suits the needs and complexities of the finished work.

Though Malaysian born, Maxine is an internationalist whose work spans both Asia and Europe. As well as exhibiting copiously in The Netherlands, Maxine has exhibited around Malaysia, Indonesia, South Korea, The Philippines and in Nepal.

 

Maxine was trained in a prestigious Malaysian school of art (KLCA - Kuala Lumpur College of Art), whose history hails back to Nanyang and the founding of Modern Art in Malaysian. She also trained in The Netherlands whose history reads like the history of Classic and Modern art, on ceramic courses, figure drawing and sculpting courses.

Being of two continents, Maxine is able to bring the delicateness of her Asian heritage and the long history of European painters and sculptors to bear on her own truly original artworks. With this knowledge and ability, Maxine produces work which bears all the hallmarks of modernity and contemporaneousness while, simultaneously, being rooted within its own and Europe’s Art history.

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Above all, the artist in Maxine believes in ‘Freedom of Expression”, boldness and experimentation, which show themselves in her work. It is with these, she believes, that self discovery comes. She engages with workshops to enable people of all types to come to terms with their creative expression