Mia Gwenllian (b.2001, Aberystwyth) is an artist and writer currently based in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. In 2024, she graduated with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art Photography from The Glasgow School of Art.
Mia is interested in the possibilities of sculpture and how it can be utilized to bridge the refinements of photography, found objects, and poetry. Her attraction to the primitive details of objects related to traditional Welsh craftmanship and folk art reveal the significance of iconography, where inherited symbolization becomes a key element in her creative interpretation. She draws upon personal receptivity of grief when investigating the shared fragility of memory and identity, challenging her embodied self as an unforeseen performative initiator of forgotten ancestry and as revenants of a past life, collecting and implementing Welsh archived imagery and ancient text to object the conventions of authorial autonomy and ownership.
Mia’s practice scopes a continuum of ephemeral experimentation that often references the foundations of philosophical phenomenology, where the enmeshment of lived experience becomes the primary source of influence. She conceives her intense relationship with inheritance into formats of traditional photographic printing techniques, untranslatable language, and embroidery, thus becoming an instrument for cultural and historical conservation and Welsh representation.
For business enquiries and price requests for prints please contact me via email
︎ miagwenllian2001@outlook.com
