"Mary Yacoob�s artworks include ink on paper, print making, wall drawings, large scale vinyl artworks and light boxes. Yacoob explores visual languages from architectural plans, maps, electrical and engineering schematics, alphabets, symbols and musical notation. The artist investigates how taking diagrams and maps, etc., out of their original context and working with them creatively them can transform them into mysterious, architectural, spatial or monumental cyphers for the imagination that create new connections between art and science. The hand-made gesture, repetition, rhythm, and self-imposed systems employing order and chance are all key aspects of her working practices.

Yacoob is presenting cyanotypes, or �blueprints�, a process originally invented by the astronomer Sir John Herschel in 1842. The deep Prussian blue of cyanotypes immerses viewers in the mysterious sensory-chromatic ambiance of star maps and the night sky. Yacoob explores the forms to be found in constellation charts, telescopic images of interstellar clouds, and diagrammatic charts of meteorological information. Spatial forms unfold in time, revealing a beguiling and intricate depth of detail."