A few moments into speaking with Mia, you’d find a person that has managed to create tactile designs through her Textiles degree, making elegant bespoke designs for anyone willing for a hand-crafted piece of clothing. However, after having the opportunity to chat with her for an hour, you'd most likely find an artist with more to express than the rooms she’s put into. We spoke at length not just of her own practice as a an artist but where she wishes to go beyond her craft.

Having found a space in London to weave her art (quite literally) on walls, ceilings and fixtures, she has managed to create a conversation with her art beyond the constraints of the medium. Expressing insight into the interpersonal relationships of race and trauma, her stories of self-acceptance find their way tangled into her art. Her personal project entitled, 'Naturally Free' notes her struggle with her own identity growing up in a white rural community of Henley through her hair. The art showcases the bounciness of the same hair she hated growing up with and highlights her journey to celebration. The art can best be described as 'personal' and 'moving', perhaps words that come to mind whenever talking to Mia about her craft.

Mia wastes no opportunity to speak about her hopes and dreams for her art. Even in conversations of modernity, sustainability and the origins in which she found herself weaving artwork, every breath is toned with some measure of her aspirations. As soon as a project is done, she says, another one is slowly brewing in her head.

She chooses to let her art speak for itself and wishes to become a conduit for discussions about identity. With so few black women in her field, the 'touchy' subject of race has become her own stomping ground in a space that is otherwise silent. She noted the responsibility to which she spoke concerning her practice-- how she was the only one that was willing to speak on the topics of black identity and the only one that could in her spaces. Even in her apparel, these sentiments are echoed, with notions of her own personality and experiences being woven into each bespoke pieces. She spends an extraordinary amount of time planning, designing and creating apparel-- sustainable and slow fashion, a key focus in her art.

Mia is passionate for her art and spins ideas about its direction with the same fervour it takes to weave her fixtures. Where is it going? Probably up- but she kept a tight lid on her future projects. I tried my best to pry through our hour long chat but she didn't budge. But what is her world? Her 'world' as she puts it; is a web of her fixtures, intertwined, cascading as a singular piece rather than seperate ideas in a gallery space. With each of her pieces she edges closer and closer towards making this a reality.

Whether written down or locked away in her head, everything that she produces is charged with passion. At her core, Mia is a vessel for frustration, love, hatred, discovery and creation; all fed into the needle of textile and design. Whatever she makes is focused, whatever is about to be made is thought about in obsessive detail and what isn't made probably isn't worth mentioning.