About

Mia Cameron (B. 2004 Glasgow, United Kingdom) is a practicing fine artist based in Glasgow, Scotland.

Cameron utilizes Catholic aesthetics and iconography with a lense focused on women and animals in the typical art styles from the Baroque and Symbolist eras. However, using a contemporary painting style of thin layers of oil paints on canvas and wooden board.

Domestic and wild animals alike, the chemistry between human and animal is explored with subtle compositions suggesting narratives of nuanced expressed emotion with Religious undertones. Whether the specific species of the animal is there to symbolize something or about how the woman’s emotion is highlighted. The works tends to evoke a sense of contemplation, melancholia and isolation.

Drawing from her own experience growing up Catholic, the  subjects of praying figures, lavish fabrics and church iconography don’t act as a means of celebrating the religion or criticizing it. More as a conceptual framework to convey narrative, with the personal aspect of her spiritual upbringing.

Yet, she highlights looking at female representation in the Biblical arts for a contemporary culture. The kind of gratifications faith may bring a woman for example. She also carefully articulates unconventional animals from the religious art genre. What a domesticated dog may suggest in comparison to a commonly depicted sacrificial lamb. How they are perceived changes through her portrayal. Animal and woman alike.