Mia Gwenllian
Mia Gwenllian
(she/her) (b.2001, Aberystwyth) is a Welsh artist currently completing her
bachelor’s degree in Fine Art Photography at the Glasgow School of Art.
Mia is interested in the possibilities of sculpture and how it can be utilised to bridge the nuances of photography, found objects and poetry.
Her fascination with found objects culminate an exemplification of early craftmanship and folk art, evolving an attentiveness to preserve rural, primitive culture.
She, also often draws upon feelings of personal and collective grief when investigating fragments of history, memory, and identity, connecting ideas around her own spirit,
the spirit of objects, and the possibilities of a past life.
Her narratives unfold through the ambiguity of early photographic printing processes, namely kallitype, salt, and toned cyanotypes.
These are often resolved as mere sculptural suspensions, reinforced with unintelligible text or ancient language.
She is thoroughly attracted to the underpinnings of creative making.
The research she undertakes for projects spans across discourses such as psychoanalysis in relation to art, theory of language and translation,
philosophy of truth, and modes of auto-theory or auto-biography through art practice and writing.
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bachelor’s degree in Fine Art Photography at the Glasgow School of Art.
Mia is interested in the possibilities of sculpture and how it can be utilised to bridge the nuances of photography, found objects and poetry.
Her fascination with found objects culminate an exemplification of early craftmanship and folk art, evolving an attentiveness to preserve rural, primitive culture.
She, also often draws upon feelings of personal and collective grief when investigating fragments of history, memory, and identity, connecting ideas around her own spirit,
the spirit of objects, and the possibilities of a past life.
Her narratives unfold through the ambiguity of early photographic printing processes, namely kallitype, salt, and toned cyanotypes.
These are often resolved as mere sculptural suspensions, reinforced with unintelligible text or ancient language.
She is thoroughly attracted to the underpinnings of creative making.
The research she undertakes for projects spans across discourses such as psychoanalysis in relation to art, theory of language and translation,
philosophy of truth, and modes of auto-theory or auto-biography through art practice and writing.
