Roynae Mayes was born in Canada in 1982, the fourth generation in a matrilineage of painters. In 2009 while living in Melbourne Australia, Roynae Mayes found the courage to pursue what was in her blood by taking on a Diploma of Visual Art at Latrobe College of Art and Design. By 2014 she had graduated from RMIT with a Bachelor of Fine Art majoring in Sculptural and Spatial Practices with a distinction in Honours.

Since graduating Roynae has been involved in several exhibitions and produced three public commissions. She ran the university supported collective the Council of SVOO for 4 years and held a position as a life drawing instructor for Seven Easels. Today she works with Thompson Berrill Landscape Design developing 3-D drawings and consulting on public sculptures. In her private practice Roynae is inspired by Frank O’Hara’s Personism, she seeks to create what she calls abstracted visual poetry, objects that have a common visual vernacular but in their dedication to one person become layered with intimacy and innuendo.

Many of the beautiful photos on this site were taken by Alexander Clayton of Young Street Studios