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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 aspect of her racial 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 racial 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: DOMETICATED HINNY, KoKo Camden, 2023 THIS IS NOT PORN, Public Gallery, 2018 PLUS SIZE, Espacio Gallery London, 2016 Group Exhibitions: Transitional, Darlington Arts Centre, Darlington 2010, Art@51, 51 Grange Road, Durham 2011, Open, Seen, Darlington 2011, Nottinghill Mayfest, London 2012, Observing Observed, Wimbledon Project Space, London 2012, Risus Pirus, Wimbledon Project Space, London 2013, Wimbledon Degree Show 2014, Flesh, Espacio Gallery, London 2014, Seams, Sweet'art Hoxton 402 Gallery, London 2014, From Dada to Influx, Espacio Gallery, London 2015, Y-Not, Sweet'art Espacio Gallery, London 2015, The Art Takeaway Charity Auction, Sweet'art Espacio Gallery, London 2015, Hand Maid, Sweet'art Hoxton 402 Gallery, London 2016, SHE international, Tanner st, London 2016, T'ART, Bones and Pear Gallery, London 2017, The Benabai Expo, OXO Wharf Tower, London 2017, Art Alika, Clerkenwell Green, London 2017, Retrespect, The Art Bypass Gallery, London 2022, Two Doors, The House of st Barnabas, London 2022, Sweet Potion, Artistellar Gallery, London 2023, The Way of all Flesh, SAATCHI, London 2024, Lilacs out of the Dead Land, Donya Gallery, London 2024, REJECTS, Art Friend , London 2024, Kunsthall UG, Augsburg Germany 2024, In Fleeting Moments, Secession Gallery, Hastings 2025. Press: It's Nice That I-D Magazine Fad Magazine Wide Walls 
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