a bit about the artist.
Mia Clayton is an emerging photographic artist completing her final year of a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Photography) at the Queensland College of Art and Design, Griffith University. Her practice captures emotion within the natural environment through analogue film techniques.
Mia’s photographs use the natural world as a vessel for personal storytelling, with themes of nostalgia, intergenerational connections and time. To the artist, the landscape transcends the physical space, it holds stories, emotion and weight.
The use of film, medium format film cameras and experimental darkroom processes is highly important in Mia’s practice. The reclaiming of analogue processes and presentations allow audiences to re-centre their minds on the tangible and real in the mundanity of the everyday digitally saturated world .
Mia is also interested in finding ways to take the photographic print off the wall - whether its video, fabric installation or camera-less techniques.
the analogue.
In a digitally saturated world, tangibly and materiality become increasingly important in the photographic space.
To me, a digital photograph loses materiality and significance. Using film, medium format film cameras and darkroom processes is highly important in my practice.
I work largely exclusively with film, both black and white and colour, shooting on medium format film cameras.
Post-development, I often work in the darkroom to produce one of a kind silver gelatine prints. I also work with double exposure techniques in-camera.
awards and recognitions.
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Semi-finalist.
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Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Creative Generation, Brisbane.
group exhibitions.
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Mosaic Memories, 2024
Webb Gallery, Queensland College of Art and Design
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Undergrowth, 2024
The Project Gallery, Queensland College of Art and Design
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[Un]Readymade Bodies
The Preview Gallery, Queensland College of Art and Design
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Blurr, 2023
The Station, Fortitude Valley
