Mia is a multidisciplinary, process-based artist located in the Northern Rivers, Australia where she lives with her partner and two children, on the edges of Nightcap National Park.


Covering a spectrum of mediums, her practice is an overall testament of her reverence of nature as muse, in which her work is exclusively bound to the natural world, particularly botanicals.


Mia engages with digital tools, generative processes (computer and analog), and biodata to create artworks that evoke novel ways of connecting with the natural world. This convergence of technology x nature - two binaries - is a unique access point to percieving and experiencing nature, and reconsiders how one can influence the other in how we see, process, and feel the natural world, particularly as we enter the digital-age.


Mia’s work has been recognized by the Wollumbin Art Award at the Tweed Regional Gallery (Emerging Artist Award Recipient, 2022), Yarilla Arts and Museum STILL: National still Life Award (finalist, 2023), York Botanic Art Prize (finalist, 2023), Byron Art Prize (finalist, 2022), and Photo Collective Australian Photography Awards (finalist 2021).


In her emerging years as an artist, her work has been enthusiastically recieved and exhibited nationally and internationally at numerous commercial and artist-run spaces including Vellum LA (Los Angeles) and concurrent auction hosted by Artsy, Lone Goat Gallery (Byron Bay), Unit London (London), and international art fairs including West Bund Art Fair (China) courtesy of Sugar Glider Digital, Art Basel (USA) courtesy of National Geographic and TIME magazine.

Her video work is licensed for commercial and corporate spaces in the USA (Standard Vision), France (Artpoint), and Australia (Sugarglider).


CURRENT PROJECTS

SEASONS - sonic data visualisation, cymatic theory, generative by nature

BLOOM - slit scan, digital still life


CV below

“Ivory Curl, Still”, exhibted at 3rd Street Crossing, Los Angeles, courtesy of Standard Vision

“Flanksia, in motion”


ARTIST CURRICULUM

EXHIBITIONS

[current]

04 Oct - 07 Nov, 2023

Unit London | UNCOMPUTER, curated by GrailersDAO (group)

07 Oct - Dec 03, 2023

Yarilla Arts and Museum | STILL: National Still Life Art Award 2023. Coffs Harbour, Australia (group)

26 Nov 2023 - 31 Jan, 2024

Gallery 152 | York Botanic Art Prize. York, Australia (group)

[past]

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> , Byron Bay, NSW, Australia (group)

January 18, 2023

National Geographic | 'GM' genesis digital collectable drop (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. Murwillumbah, NSW, Australia (group)

December 1 - December 3, 2022

Time Pieces Gallery | Art Basel, Miami (group)

May 26 - April 26, 2022

1st Dibs | Flowergang (group)

March 22 - April 5, 2022

Vellum LA | Artists Who Code: Generative Art by Women and Nonbinary Artists. 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

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 showcase for 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