ARTIST STATEMENT
Mia Mai (b.1997, Leeds) is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher and workshop facilitator working primarily across weaving, writing, installation and sculpture.
Through a critically, socially and materially engaged approach to research of woven textiles, Mia is dedicated to uncovering this everyday material’s emotional potency, value, political ecologies, and capacity to trace human experiences across time and place. With intersectional feminist theory at the heart of her research, Mia’s work is formed around notions of memory, sensory experiences, archived information, knowledge exchange, identity and social injustice.
Her site-specific installations and designed workshops are often offered as a space for re-imagining; for considering the depth of our relationships with cloth and the ontological effects of our engagements with it.

Education
CV
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2020 - 2021
MA: Design Expanded Practice
(Fashions and Embodiment studio)
Goldsmiths University of London
2016 - 2019
BA: Textile Design (Weave)
Chelsea College of Arts, [University of Arts London]
2015 - 2016
Foundation Diploma (Textiles)
Leeds Arts University
2023
Current: October - December 2023
Sunny Bank Mills
Woven Stories
2023
Upcoming
DRAWinternational, Caylus, France
[International] Artist In Residence
2022-23
Upcoming
The Art Court X White Cloth Hall, Leeds
Artist In Residence
August - September
Henry Moore Foundation, Hertfordshire
Artist Research Fellow
2022
2022
June
The Playhouse, Leeds
Leeds Summer Group Show [Group Exhibition]
January - February
Sunny Bank Mills, Leeds
Artist In Residence
2022
December
Goldsmiths University of London
Stretch the Spring [Group Exhibition]
2021
August - September
Studio 3 Arts, London
Windows In, Commission, Public Installation
2021
June - July
Constance Howard Gallery, London
Fashion Narratives [Group Exhibition]
2021
May - June
Sunny Bank Mills, Leeds
Ones To Watch 2021 [Group Exhibition]
- Judges Prize Award Winner
2021
September - October
Boomer Gallery, London
New Wave [Group Exhibition]
2020