Artist Bio

Mia Henry is a UK-based artist and Fine Art Student at Loughborough University. Working primarily in oil paint, her practice examines identity and memory through contemporary figurative painting and portraiture.

Her recent work has shifted to the specific exploration of family relationships, belonging and the construction of mixed-race identity through personal archives and photography. Her work is informed by the social, political and cultural realities that shape her own experiences and those of the people around her. Questions of visibility, race and representation are central to her practice.

Interested in the ways photographs both preserve and reshape lived experience, she explores how painting can transform familiar images into more ambiguous representations of belonging, representation and identity. The process of translating photographic images into paint creates distance from their original context, allowing spaces of reflection and reinterpretation. Alongside her studio practice, her work is underpinned by research investigating how painting can challenge the apparent truthfulness of photographic images while creating new visual narratives. This dialogue between research and making informs an evolving practice that combines technical realism with conceptual depth.