Lot 147 - Mia Wilkinson - Untitled

Lino print and oil pastel on paper
2024
A6 (10x15cm)
Original Artwork
Signed on Verso
Curated by Art on a Postcard

About
I toy with western stereotypes of the domestic female in my art. I undermine the performative nature of woman as ‘the angel in the house’, electrifying my figures with a grotesque, playful sexuality, and situating them in caricaturised, lurid domestic settings.

I was born into a single parent, working-class family in the North-East. I don’t know my Asian father and have little experience of one aspect of my racial heritage. Moulded by a strong but complex matriarchy I learned that a female body has both a social currency and a relative social invisibility. My experience of paternal absence and the ramifications of that for my racial identity, combined with the dominant female forces that raised me, find presence and voice in the bawdiness of the females I depict, skewing and skewering culturally imposed expectations and artistic traditions. I find myself as ‘subject’ deeply discomforting, and therefore increasingly turn the gaze onto myself, in attempt to further worry traditions of depicting women, and the female relationship with art.

Education
2024-2025
Royal College of Art MA Painting
2011-2014
Wimbledon College of Art UAL Bachelors painting

Solo Exhibitions
2023
DOMESTICALTED HINNY, KoKo Camden, London, UK
2018
THIS IS NOT PORN, Public Gallery, London, UK
2016
PLUS SIZE, Espacio Gallery London, UK

Group Exhibitions
2025
In Fleeting Moments, Secession Gallery, Hastings

2024
Kunsthall UG, Augsburg, Germany
REJECTS, Art Friend, London
Lilacs out of the Dead Land, Donya Gallery, London
The Way of all Flesh, SAATCHI, London

2023
Sweet Potion, Artistellar Gallery, London

2022
Two Doors, The House of st Barnabas, London
Retrespect, The Art Bypass Gallery, London