| mia hayward |
| Mia Hayward is an emerging artist based on Gadigal Land. Her sculptural practice, grounded in textiles and ceramics, examines the relationship between embodiment and disembodiment. Through the tactile interplay of thread and clay, her work engages with the reparative possibilities of material practice. Her recent investigations focus on architectural thresholds-windows, archways, and openings-as liminal sites where presence and absence intersect. By translating bodily experience into material form, her practice considers how absence may be reexamined as a mode of resistance and reclamation. @mia_hayward |
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'Thresholds: A Hand on the Hand' engages with the dichotomy of presence and absence, situating itself within questions of embodiment and disembodiment in relation to the female subject. Worn bed sheets are woven into architectural thresholds, spaces where the body lingers. Weaving, with its slowness and tactile intimacy, becomes a slow, embodied resistance to the fragmentation disembodiment leaves behind. Through material, memory and spatial form, I ask whether the absent body can be translated- and, in translation, whether autonomy might be reclaimed.