Mia is a multidisciplinary artist located in the Northern Rivers, Australia where she lives with her partner and two children, on the edges of Nightcap National Park.
Her practice is an overall testament of her reverence of nature as muse, in which her work is exclusively bound to the natural world. Mia engages with digital tools, generative processes (computer and analog), and biodata to create artworks (digital, dry media, textiles). Her process often evolves (bio)data into data sonification, visualization and/or materialization, in service of evoking new meaningful approaches to how one might observe, process, and feel the natural world, particularly of pertinence as we enter the digital-age.
In her emerging years as an artist, Mia’s work has been recognized by the Arab Bank Switzerland Digital Art Prize (finalist, 2024), Wollumbin Art Award at the Tweed Regional Gallery (Emerging Artist Award Recipient, 2022), Yarilla Arts and Museum STILL: National still Life Award (finalist, 2023) and the York Botanic Art Prize (finalist, 2023), and exhibited through Sothebys Metaverse, Unit London, Vellum LA wiith concurrent auction hosted by Artsy, Tweed Regional Gallery (Australia), and participated at international art fairs including West Bund Art Fair (China) courtesy of Art Pharmacy, and Art Basel (USA) courtesy of National Geographic and TIME magazine.
Mia holds a Bachelor of Music (performance) from the Queensland Conservatorium, and Masters in Film from Griffith Film School.
Her video work is licensed for commercial and corporate spaces in the USA (Standard Vision), France (Artpoint), and Australia (Art Pharmacy).
CV below
ARTIST CURRICULUM
EXHIBITIONS
26 Nov 2023 - 31 Jan, 2024
Gallery 152 | York Botanic Art Prize. York, Australia (group)
07 Oct - Dec 03, 2023
Yarilla Arts and Museum | STILL: National Still Life Art Award 2023, judged by Max Delany. Coffs Harbour, Australia (group)
04 Oct - 07 Nov, 2023
Unit London | UNCOMPUTER, curated by GrailersDAO (group)
02 Aug - 05 Aug, 2023
Firstdraft | Firstdraft Auction. Sydney, Australia (group)
28 July, 2023
Superchief Gallery, Oculus Centre | Everything but the Kitchen Knife. New York, United States (group)
08 March - 30 April, 2023
Northern Rivers Community Gallery | Bloom, solo exhibition. Ballina, NSW, Australia (solo)
28 Jan - 25 Feb, 2023
Lone Goat Gallery | <cite> curated by Ingrid Wilson, Byron Bay, NSW, Australia (group)
October 19 - December 11, 2022
Northern Rivers Community Gallery | BAM Prize. Ballina, NSW, Australia (group)
September 30 - November 20, 2022
Tweed Regional Art Gallery | Wollumbin Art Award, judged by Susi Muddiman and Alison Kubler, Murwillumbah, NSW, Australia (group)
December 1 - December 3, 2022
Time Pieces Gallery | Art Basel, Miami (group)
May 26 - April 26, 2022
1st Dibs | Flowergang, curated by Anna Condo (group)
March 22 - April 5, 2022
Vellum LA | Artists Who Code: Generative Art by Women and Nonbinary Artists, curated by Sinziana Velicescu and Mieke Marple. Los Angeles, USA. Online Auction hosted by Artsy (group)
w1 Curates| Artists Who Code pop-up installation. Flannels, Oxford St, London, United Kingdom (group)
AWARDS
2022 Emerging Artist Award | Wollumbin Art Award
2021 3rd Prize | Photo Collective Australian Photography Award - Documentary
NOMINATIONS
2024 Arab Bank Switzerland, Digital Art Prize (outcome pending)
2023 Yarilla Arts and Museum, STILL: National still Life Award
2023 Gallery 152, York Botanic Art Prize (outcome pending)
2022 Byron Arts Magazine, BAM Prize
Wollumbin Award, Tweed Regional Gallery
2020 Queensland Music Awards, Music Video Award | Moreton - Circles
2016 Queensland Music Awards, Music Video Award | Black Seaweed - MKO SUN
DIGITAL ART ACTIVATIONS
August, 2023
StandardVision | Bloom Medley. School of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, United States
July, 2023
Artpoint | bloom showcase, Tour First La Défense, Paris, France.
June, 2023
Culture Vault | acid.bloom, Ace Hotel for VIVID, Sydney, Australia
March, 2023
sugarglider.digital | ‘blue iris, pieris japonica, alpine seaholly, in motion’, 385 Bourke Street, Melbourne, Australia
February, 2023
sugarglider.digital | ‘ornamental kale, in motion’, Rialto Towers, Melbourne, Australia
July, 2022
sugarglider.digital | sugar.glider digital soft launch, 1 Martin Place, Sydney, Australia
March, 2022
StandardVision | bloom showcase, 3rd Street Crossing, Los Angeles (USA)
LECTURES / PANELS
2023 “SXSW: The Digital & Immersive Future of the Arts: How and Why We Need to Get There”, panel with Mia Forrest, Serwah Attafuah, Simone Baker, and Emilya Colliver | SXSW Sydney
“The Art Project Series: What will art projects look like in 2050?”, panel with Mia Forrest, Thea-Mai Baumann, and Simone Baker, moderated by Michelle Wang (Art Pharmacy) | Ace Hotel, Sydney (LINK)
“Artist’s in Conversation”, conversation with Mia Forrest and Thomas Marcusson, moderated by Ingrid Wilson | Lone Goat Galley, Byron Bay, Australia (LINK)
2022 “NFT Panel”, panel with Mia Forrest, Nick Hollins, Michelle Wang and Priscilla Koukoui, moderated by Jaimee Skippon Volke (Byron Bay International Film Festival) | Byron Bay, NSW, Australia (LINK)
“Big Chats”, Panel with Mia Forrest, Amy Woodward, and Brian Keayes, moderated by Andrew Maccoll | The Digital Hub, Peregian, QLD, Australia
“Your Digital Presence: Social, Media, Websites and NFTs”, panel with Mia Forrest, Jonny Niesche and Emily Parker | Queensland College of Art, QLD, Australia
PRESS
2023 sugar.glider digital, “Artist Profile: Mia Forrest”, sugar.glider digital, February 8 (LINK)
Right Click Save, “PHOTOGRAPHY AFTER THE NFT: Leading photographers discuss what is changing in Web3 with Danielle Ezzo”, January 17 (LINK)
2022 StandardVision, “Artist Showcase: A Poetic Expansion of Time with Artist Mia Forrest”, StandardVision, April 6 (LINK)
ARTWORK LICENSING
Australia - please contact Sugar Glider Digital
United States - please contact StandardVision