Mia Wilkinson toys with Western stereotypes of the domestic female in her art. She undermines the performative nature of women as "the angel in the house," electrifying her figures with a grotesque, playful sexuality and situating them in caricaturized, lurid domestic settings. Born into a single-parent, working-class family in the North-East, the artist has no relationship with her Asian father and limited experience of that side of her heritage.
Shaped by a strong but complex matriarchy, she learned that a female body holds both social currency and relative social invisibility. The experience of paternal absence, and its ramifications for her identity, combined with the dominant female forces that raised her, find presence and voice in the bawdiness of the women she depicts-skewing and skewering culturally imposed expectations and artistic traditions. Wilkinson finds herself as "subject" deeply discomforting and increasingly turns the gaze onto her own image in an effort to further challenge traditions of depicting women and explore the female relationship with art.
Education: Wimbledon College of Art UAL. Solo Exhibitions: THIS IS NOT PORN, Public Gallery, 2018;PLUS SIZE, Espacio Gallery London, 2016; Group Exhibitions:Retrespect, The Art Bypass Gallery, London 2022, TwoDoors, The House of st Barnabas, London 2022; Solo at Gertrude x KOKO ‘Domesticated Hinny’ 2022, Artistellar Galleryat 67 York Street 2022 ‘Sweet Potion’; Delphian Gallery x Saatchi Gallery ‘The Way of All Flesh’ group show 2024; ‘Lilacs Out of The Dead Land’ Donya Gallery curated by Vittoria Beltrame, 56 Conduit St. Press: It's Nice That; I-D Magazine; Fad Magazine.
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