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Tide Table

Maya Laurent

Acrylic & pigment on linen · 160 × 130 cm

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Field (Grey-Green)

Maya Laurent

Pigment on linen · 130 × 110 cm

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Vessel No. 7

Maya Laurent

Glazed stoneware · 24 cm

45 pieces · Portfolio value € 96 000Maya Laurent

Pieces/Field (Grey-Green)

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Field (Grey-Green)

Maya Laurent

Year2024

MediumPigment on linen

Size100 × 100 cm

LocationMøn studio

Layered, sanded pigment on linen in a narrow range of greys. Acquired directly from the artist, 2024.

Maya Laurent

45 pieces

Tide Table

Maya Laurent · 2020

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Field (Grey-Green)

Maya Laurent · 2024

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Vessel No. 7

Maya Laurent · 2021

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Quiet Centre

Maya Laurent · 2023

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Keep pieces, collections and their stories together. Start with a photograph and let Samlio help organise the details - reducing repetitive work while keeping you in control.

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Keep photographs, documents, provenance, notes and metadata together.

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Begin documenting a piece immediately and build the record over time.

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Samlio helps organise information, suggest details and reduce repetitive work without taking control away from you.

Cymbale vertical by Maya Laurent, a draft catalogue entry in Samlio waiting for review

Cymbale vertical - draft

Maya Laurent · 1 photograph added

MediumSteel, soundDraft

Dimensions23 x 22 cmDraft

Year2003Review

CollectionStudio worksOptional

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Tide Table

Maya Laurent · 2023

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Horizon, Held

Maya Laurent · 2019

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Field Notes IV

Maya Laurent · 2016

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Seam

Maya Laurent · 2016

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Three framed grey linen works hung in a row in a calm living room with oak walls, a sofa and two stoneware vessels

The work you make deserves a home.

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Open calls want the same things every time: images, titles, year, medium, dimensions. Choose the works in the order you want them seen, and Samlio lays them out for you, one work to a page, in that order.

Prices and valuations stay out of it. They belong in the list of works you keep for insurance, which is the second format, and never in a file going to a jury.

See how the portfolio is made, look through the calls closing next, or start with one work and see how the record builds.

An evening of hunting through folders, or ten minutes.

The difference is whether the measurements were written down when the work was still in the room.

That is the whole product.

Built from real practice

Samlio didn’t begin with a list of software features.

Its roots are in a system developed and used by working artists over more than a decade, to document artworks, exhibitions, locations, materials and the history surrounding their practice.

We took that thinking and asked a simple question:

What would this look like if it were rebuilt for today?

Simpler. More beautiful. Intelligent. And designed around the artwork itself.

That became Samlio.

15Years of real-world artist archiving practice

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Nothing is indexed, shared or visible unless you choose. Not used to train anything. Not visible to us beyond what you have agreed to.

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Managers, viewers and assistants - each with distinct permissions. Access is always yours to grant or remove, immediately.

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