Mia Mai Symonds
Mia Mai Symonds (b.1997, Leeds) is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily across weaving, sculpture and installation. Through a critically, socially and materially engaged approach to research of woven textiles, Mia is dedicated to uncovering this everyday materials' emotional potency, values, political ecologies, and capacity to trace human experiences across time and place. With intersectional feminist theory at the heart of her artistic practice, Mia is interested in working between lived experience and embodied knowledge, often engaging in topics of memory, sensory experiences, archived information, knowledge exchange, identity and social injustices.
Mia Mai Symonds 2024
Mia Mai Symonds (b.1997, Leeds) is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily across weaving, sculpture and installation. Through a critically, socially and materially engaged approach to research of woven textiles, Mia is dedicated to uncovering this everyday materials' emotional potency, values, political ecologies, and capacity to trace human experiences across time and place. With intersectional feminist theory at the heart of her artistic practice, Mia is interested in working between lived experience and embodied knowledge, often engaging in topics of memory, sensory experiences, archived information, knowledge exchange, identity and social injustices.
Mimesis
Hand-woven silk trapped in art-glass, wooden frame
72cm x 72cm
Mimesis is an output of an on-going exploration into the visual manipulation, exposure and emphasis of the woven structure, a re-presentation of a form and material which fills our everyday. Working across processes and practices of sculpture, weaving and image-making, these explorations are made to interrupt the perception of this ubiquitous but unseen everyday structure, whilst expanding the possibilities of its material language.
