A Life of its Own, Mia Mai Symonds

Exhibition Open Friday 11 July - Friday 22 August
Opening Night Thursday 10 July 5-7pm

We are thrilled to present this the first solo exhibition of new work by Mia Mai Symonds

A Life of its Own, at BLANK_ University Centre Leeds, is a body of work exploring ideas of preservation across material and metaphor. Through a series of sculptural outputs, this work focusses on the life of material and object, and reimagines forms found in our everyday.

This body of work began as a curiosity around ideas of preservation – expanding on methodologies for conserving, prolonging and adapting found and collected materials and objects. As a result, these sculptural works began taking shape as a glorification of the seemingly mundane, a shifting of the ordinary, a romanticised account of details in our everyday.

Mia Mai (b.1997, Leeds) is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher whose work spans sculpture, installation, weaving and image-making.

Whilst working across mediums and disciplines, Mia’s practice is primarily engaged with the interrogation, manipulation and interpretation of objects and materials, particularly of which are handmade, naturally occurring and embedded in the everyday. Her research will often explore those that are found, unseen, displaced, excavated, collected or archived.

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Photographs by Jonathan Turner @jonathanrturner