Profile
Steven H Ma is a travelling artist & poet whose practice centres on place, season and feeling. His work explores three themes - 迴 echo between different disciplines of art, 橋 bridging between cultures and languages, and 道 Tao, seeking nature, simplicity and unadornment. Recurring motifs include birds, trees, marble and gradients, alongside a hybrid latin/kanji script.

Base of Activity: Sydney | Kyoto | Paris
Media Used: Mixed Media: Watercolour, Fineliner, pencil | Photography | Performance & Found Object Sculpture

Selected CV:
1) Exhibition: Oct 2026, Calligraphic Trees, Oharano Studios, Kyoto
2) Publications: 2026, multiple works, including: Space, Birds, Yumcha, Grandma: A Book About Grief,
Cats: A Book About Disappointment, Remare Press
3) Education: 2026, Certificate in Fine Art, Curtin University

Residence Plan
Ma will perform "Name Cards," a performance piece based on meishi kōkan (business card exchanges) featuring the free giveaway of a personalised work of fine art to all members of the public that attend. At the residency itself, Steven will working on a series of sixty-four small paintings, one for each ideogram of the I Ching (『易経』, Ekikyō, Book of Changes), in a visual representation that dissolves boundaries between nature, body, landscape and written form.