a bit about the artist.
Mia Clayton is an emerging photographic artist currently based in Canada. 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.
awards and recognitions.
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A one month residency at the Burren College of Art in Co. Clare, Ireland.
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Semi-finalist.
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Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Creative Generation, Brisbane.
the analogue.
In a digitally saturated world, tangibly and materiality become increasingly important in the photographic space.
To the artist, a digital photograph can lose materiality and significance.
Mia works exclusively with film, both black and white and colour, shooting on medium format and 35mm film cameras.
Post-development, she often works in the darkroom to produce one of a kind silver gelatine prints, and experiments with film development techniques to produce to chemically altered images. Clayton also works with double exposure techniques in-camera.
