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Mia Banks is a multidisciplinary artist with an interest in providing validation to undervalued materials within the everyday. This takes the form of extracting pre-existing textures, replicating them by hand and using mass-manufactured process from familiar sites onto different surfaces.
Through, this method of extraction a form of replication, I aim for the audience to pay more direct attention to their surroundings; to see how everyday undervalued surfaces and materials can be transformed into artwork.
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Mia Banks
B. 2001, Walsall.
Education:
BCU School of Art, Birmingham, (September 12, 2023 - August 2024)
MFA (Distinction) Fine Art (January 2025)
BCU School of Art, Birmingham (September 14 2020 - May 29, 2023)
BA (Hons) Fine Art. (May 29, 2023)
Sandwell College West Bromwich, Extended (June 2022)
Sandwell College West Bromwich, Art and Design ( September 2017 - June 2020)
Group Exhibitions:
WIP The New Walsall Art Gallery (2025)
MA Final Degree Show, Birmingham School of Art (2024)
Creative Showcase 24 Festival, Worcester (2024)
Birmingham and Art Gallery, 'Deviance and Difference' (2024)
'Linked' Birmingham Midlands Institution (2024)
WIP Public Art Exhibition Stryx catalogue 'Schemarium' (2024)
Grasruts Catalogue Publication, April Issue (2023)
Stryx Gallery, Jewllery Quarter 'Schemarium' (2024)
Inspired Festival website (2023)
Floodgate Street Digbeth, Billboard artwork (2023)
BFA Degree Show, (2023)
'Personal Afflictions Part Two', Night School, Birmingham School of Art (2023)
Major Project, Birmingham School of Art (2023)
Night School, Birmingham School of Art (2023)
'Personal Afflictions', Steamhouse, Birmingham (2023)
Degree Show Birmingham School of Art (2023)
'Surfacing', Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, (2022)
'45 Caprice', Stryx Gallery Digbeth (2022)
IKON collaboration with artist Mit Jai Inn (2021)
Night School Birmingham School of Art (2020 - 2023)
21 Pirates Exhibition Millennium Point, Birmingham (2020)
Sandwell College, West Bromwich (2019)
Other Art participated event:
BCU Take Over social media. (2022)
Art Workshops Summerfield Stables, Yardley Wood (2022)
Art Workshop within Sandwell Hospital, West Bromwich (2019)
Charismas Card collaboration with Compton hospice, Wolverhampton. (2019)
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