About Mia Vallance

Mia Vallance is a visual artist living and working in London. She obtained a Bachelor's degree in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins in London and at the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Paris on an exchange programme. In 2020 she was shortlisted for the John Moores Painting Prize.

Vallance’s creates dreamlike paintings that drift between fragmented snapshots and abstract forms that are in a state of constant evolution. In her paintings, Vallance will allow something to morph into another thing entirely, giving control over to the instrument she manoeuvres. She does this by spilling turpentine onto the canvas and wiping the image away, allowing something else to emerge. Faces burst into their surroundings, bodies dissipate into colour, transcending their form by exploding, growing, dissolving and leaking. Vallance’s work functions almost like poetry or music: the viewer experiences its substance.