Mia Middleton

Mia Middleton is an artist whose visual creations delve into themes of interiority, memory, and evocation.

Biography of Mia Middleton

Mia Middleton was born in 1988 in London, UK. She studied at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, where she obtained a BA/BFA Hons in Philosophy/Photomedia (2013). 

Throughout her illustrious career, Mia Middleton has participated in several residencies, including Homesession in Barcelona, Spain (2018); Seoul Museum of Art SeMA NANJI in Seoul, Korea (2020); and PM/AM in London, UK (2022).

Recent solo exhibitions by Mia Middleton include "Turn it into Water" at Homesession in Barcelona, Spain (2018); "When the Edge of the Head was a Hole" at Fires in Sydney, Australia (2019); "Webway," with Jen Mathews, at Haydens Gallery in Melbourne, Australia (2021); "Through the Gate" at Painter Painting Paintings in London, UK (2022); "Three Secrets" at COMA in Sydney, Australia (2022), and many more.

Besides solo shows, the artist has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including "Art Is For Lovers" at ARTBAR, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia (2013); "The Story of Vawn [Emergence]" at Desire Lines 2.0, Sydney, Australia (2016); "You Can Meet Me Anywhere" at Aici Acolo, Cluj, Romania (2018); and "The Owners" at Sosho Club, Seoul (Postponed), South Korea (2020), among others.

Currently, the artist lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal.

Mia Middleton's Art Style

Middleton's paintings are typically small-scale and capture a delicate balance between the conscious and subconscious, desire and aversion, and reality and fantasy. Within these intimate snapshots, fleeting moments lose their context and linger in time, hinting at narratives without explicitly crafting them. This invites viewers into a psychological realm of ambiguity and exploration.

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It's an amorphous process in a way. I'm dealing with psychology and interiority and mental phenomena, to some degree. I don't always have a very clear sense of things as I'm starting out, but I'll begin with something that isn't leaving me alone; it might be a memory, a mental image, a dream fragment, a word, an experience that I'm navigating etc. It's not always something from my own past, but it’s always something slippery or elusive. 
Mia Middleton about her painting process. Interview with Emergent Magazine

The artist explores the significance of narrative in our existence—the tales we construct, fabricate and narrate to ourselves. In her artistry, she doesn't aim to completely unveil the story or mental phenomenon that occupies her thoughts. Instead, she keeps an open mind, absorbing the impressions and emotions it evokes, collecting interpretations that may lead her in various directions—a realm of ambiguity and imaginative possibilities.

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