Mia Forrest

Mia is a multidisciplinary artist located in the Northern Rivers, Australia where she lives with her husband and three children on the edges of the Gondwanan rainforest, an ancient, world Heritage-listed ecosystem. With an enduring reverence for nature as muse, her work explores how natural phenomena and ecological systems can inform a methodology translated into visual, sonic, and generative forms, spanning across textiles, pigments, digital, and work on paper. Mia’s work hones in on the premise that art can be generative by nature - adopting ecological systems and rule-based processes as a collaborative framework. These ideas have become foundational to her practice, leading her to investigate intrinsic algorithms within ecological systems, adopting new ways of seeing and connecting to the natural world. During her emerging years, Mia’s work has been presented by Sotheby’s, Unit London, Phillips, Vellum LA, Tweed Regional Gallery (Australia), and participated at international art fairs including West Bund Art Fair (China) courtesy of Art Pharmacy. Her work is held in private and public facing commercial collections, including Spalter Digital (USA), Arab Bank (Switzerland), and the RF.C Art Collection (USA). Mia is one of five global recipients for the 2025 Leonardo.ai Imagination Fund, receiving US$10,000 to realize her project, Orchids. She has been recognized by the House of Fine Art X Phillips Digital Art Awards
(finalist, 2025), Ravenswood Women’s Art Prize (finalist, 2025), Arab Bank Switzerland Digital Art Prize (finalist, 2024), Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize (finalist, 2026), and the Wollumbin Art Award at the Tweed Regional Gallery (Emerging Artist Award Recipient, 2022). Mia holds a Bachelor of Music (performance) from the Queensland
Conservatorium, and Masters in Film from Griffith Film School. Her video work is licensed for commercial and corporate spaces in the USA (Standard Vision) and Australia (Art Pharmacy).

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