Artist statement
A commitment to social and environmental issues drives my work and presents through conscious choices of materials, processes, content, and an interest in collaboration, interactivity, and accessibility. Recent work translates personal data from daily drawings into experimental adornment and objects, exploring the space where rationality and intuition collide.
Bio
Self employed since 2004, Mia Straka is a partner at collective jewellery studio Workshop6 in Auckland. Straka’s jewellery, sculpture, installation work and interactive projects have been exhibited widely and toured public museums, galleries and libraries both locally and internationally. The artist has run workshops and taught classes both at Workshop6 and various public institutions and galleries, the most recent being in 2022 at Objectspace as part of the exhibition Mark Work’s public programme. Work is held in the public collection of The Wallace Arts Trust, NZ.
The pursuit of efficiency will drain your life of meaning* series 2022
*Oliver Burkeman, Sam Harris podcast #289 Time management for mortals approx 22:29 minutes I’m interested in how we experience, value and record time. As a social medium adornment has the potential to act as catalyst, conduit and communicator in this realm. I invited...
Morph report – here and now
We chose Morph as our collective title and theme for this culminating exhibition to embody the transitional and transformative epoch of both the pandemic and Handshake6 on our lives, work and group dynamic.
Morph report part I – time based works
Information Age adornment projected through space and time
Zooming in
Handshake7 contemporary jewellery Masterclass with Estela Saez
Mia Straka‘s art works:
