Mia Taylor

Biography

I am an artist, educator, and course leader for MA Art & Science at Central Saint Martins.

I have an interdisciplinary practice that includes painting, object making, writing, experimental moving image and performance. Work is concerned with how different disciplines describe and represent the living environment, with a particular interest in the visual, symbolic and written language systems they produce. I am interested in forms of storytelling - speculative, hybrid – as a means to explore complex relations between the human and more-than-human world.

I am a frequent collaborator and have worked with artists and specialists from the earth and physical sciences. I am member of Glap Collective, an experimental art writing collective, and was a member of Five Years, an artists’ project where programming maintains a direct relationship to practice, from 2015 – 2020.

Practice is both studio-based and situated in the field. Recent projects have included working with Oceanographers to consider how scientific research relating to the climate emergency can be explored in relation to human scale and personal narratives.

I have exhibited nationally and internationally, including with Jerwood Visual Arts; Whitechapel Gallery; A.P.T. Gallery; Purdy Hicks; NADA Miami; Toomer Labzda, New York; and Delaware Contemporary, USA. Residencies include Signal Fire Arts, Oregon; Stoneleaf, New York; and OSNAP research expedition to the Reykjanes Ridge, subpolar North Atlantic.