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.
INSIGHTS WITH IRIS
‘What makes the body present in this world is the doorway that is too small to fit through without having to make a shift’. Iris Eichenberg Over four days at the end of January 2020, we 12 Handshake6 participants came together for the first time to take part in a...
Mia Straka‘s art works:
