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Mia

Clayton

Mia Clayton is an emerging photographic artist currently based in Paris. Her practice explores the intersections of landscape, memory, and analogue experimentation. 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. Mia holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Photography) at the Queensland College of Art and Design, Griffith University. Her work has been exhibited in group shows across Australia and internationally including She, The Burren (Ireland, 2025), Mosaic Memories (Brisbane, 2024) and Undergrowth (Brisbane 2024). In 2024, she was named a semi-finalist for the Macquarie Group Emerging Artist Prize.

Disciplines: Photography

Materials: Darkroom
Mia Clayton is an emerging photographic artist currently based in Paris. Her practice explores the intersections of landscape, memory, and analogue experimentation. 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. Mia holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Photography) at the Queensland College of Art and Design, Griffith University. Her work has been exhibited in group shows across Australia and internationally including She, The Burren (Ireland, 2025), Mosaic Memories (Brisbane, 2024) and Undergrowth (Brisbane 2024). In 2024, she was named a semi-finalist for the Macquarie Group Emerging Artist Prize.

Previous Experience

Residencies Artist in Residence | Burren College of Art [February 2025] Ballyvaugen, Co. Clare, Ireland Solo Exhibitions fleeting and forever [2025] Land Street Gallery, Brisbane Australia Open Studio [2025] Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughen, Co. Clare, Ireland Group Exhibitions She, The Burren [2025] Newtown Castle, Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughen, Co. Clare, Ireland The Road to Home | In Places Far Away [2025] Newtown Castle, Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughen, Co. Clare, Ireland Griffith University Graduate Show – RE: Trace [2024] White Box Gallery, Queensland College of Art and Design Artist Talk & Group Curation Talk Mosaic Memories [2024] Webb Gallery, Queensland College of Art and Design Undergrowth [2024] The Project Gallery, Queensland College of Art and Design Blurr [2023] The Station, Fortitude Valley [Un]Readymade Bodies [2023] The Preview Gallery, Queensland College of Art and Design

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