a bit about the artist.
Mia Clayton is an emerging photographic artist with a practice centered on mirroring felt emotion with the natural environment through analogue film techniques.
Mia’s photographs use the natural world as a vessel for storytelling, accompanied by themes of nostalgia, intergenerational connections and time. To the artist, the landscape transcends the physical space, it holds stories 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.
awards and recognitions.
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A one month residency at the Burren College of Art in Co. Clare, Ireland.
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Semi-finalist.
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Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Creative Generation, Brisbane.
the analogue.
In a digitally saturated world, tangibly and materiality become increasingly important in the photographic space.
To me, a digital photograph can lose materiality and significance.
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.
