Mia Gwenllian | Fine Art Photography, Sculpture & Welsh Craft

Mia Gwenllian is a multidisciplinary artist and writer currently based in London, originally from Aberystwyth. Having graduated from The Glasgow School of Art in 2024 with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art Photography, her practice is deeply rooted in the investigation of memory, identity, and cultural inheritance. She utilizes a diverse range of mediums, including sculpture, photography, found objects, and poetry, to explore the fragility of lived experience and the complexities of language. A central element of Mia Gwenllian’s work is her attraction to traditional Welsh craftsmanship and folk art. She integrates primitive details and inherited symbols into her creative interpretations, often using archival imagery and ancient texts. Her projects, such as Funus, Fumus, Fuimus, Ecce, serve as fabricated inquiries into personal and collective histories, bridging the gap between historical documentation and subjective re-enactment. Through techniques such as traditional photographic printing and embroidery, she creates tactile works that function as instruments for cultural and historical conservation. Mia Gwenllian's artistic approach is influenced by philosophical phenomenology, where the enmeshment of personal testimony and memory becomes a primary source of inspiration. Her work has been featured in exhibitions such as the GSA Degree Show and the Royal Scottish Academy New Contemporaries. By challenging authorial autonomy and ownership, she positions herself as a performative initiator of forgotten ancestry, breathing new life into old ghosts through a continuum of ephemeral experimentation and material exploration.