Mia Middleton: A Green Glass Eye

  • COMA is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Mia Middleton (b. 1988), titled, A Green Glass Eye, on view 9 February – 9 March, 2024. This is the artist’s second solo presentation with COMA and taking place at our Chippendale location, 2/27-39 Abercrombie Street, Chippendale, NSW 2008.

     

    As though slipping in and out of a trance, A Green Glass Eye begins in the shadows of phantasmagoria and the arcane, exploring the verge between the observable and the unexplained. In this aqueous world, human life is interstitial. Sight is obscured, forms are suspended as though possessed, pearls glimmer like sirens while animals encroach, light swims on the edge of alchemy.

     

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  • Mia Middleton
    Claude mirror, 2024
    oil on linen
    20 x 20 cm 7 7/8 x 7 7/8 inches)
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  • Artworks
    • Mia Middleton Claude Mirror, 2024 oil on linen 20 x 20 cm 7 7/8 x 7 7/8 in
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      Claude Mirror, 2024
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    • Mia Middleton End of Wishes, 2024 oil on linen 20 x 20 cm 7 7/8 x 7 7/8 in
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      End of Wishes, 2024
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    • Mia Middleton Herald (Dissolve the King), 2024 oil on linen 65 x 54 cm 25 5/8 x 21 1/4 in
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      Herald (Dissolve the King), 2024
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      65 x 54 cm
      25 5/8 x 21 1/4 in
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    • Mia Middleton Hold Sky, 2024 oil on linen 18 x 14 cm 7 1/8 x 5 1/2 in
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      Hold Sky, 2024
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    • Mia Middleton Hours and Days, 2024 oil on linen 18 x 14 cm 7 1/8 x 5 1/2 in
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      Hours and Days, 2024
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    • Mia Middleton Lighthouse, 2024 oil on linen 18 x 14 cm 7 1/8 x 5 1/2 in
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      Lighthouse, 2024
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    • Mia Middleton Magician, 2024 oil on linen 20 x 20 cm 7 7/8 x 7 7/8 in
      Mia Middleton
      Magician, 2024
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    • Mia Middleton Material Chemistry I, 2024 oil on linen 46 x 38 cm 18 1/8 x 15 in
      Mia Middleton
      Material Chemistry I, 2024
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      18 1/8 x 15 in
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    • Mia Middleton Material Chemistry II, 2024 oil on linen 46 x 38 cm 18 1/8 x 15 in
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      Material Chemistry II, 2024
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    • Mia Middleton Moon-White Water, 2024 oil on linen 46 x 38 cm 18 1/8 x 15 in
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      Moon-White Water, 2024
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    • Mia Middleton Precession, 2024 oil on linen 20 x 20 cm 7 7/8 x 7 7/8 in
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      Precession, 2024
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    • Mia Middleton Prima Materia, 2024 oil on linen 65 x 54 cm 25 5/8 x 21 1/4 in
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      Prima Materia, 2024
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    • Mia Middleton Sea Glass, 2024 oil on linen 20 x 20 cm 7 7/8 x 7 7/8 in
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      Sea Glass, 2024
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    • Mia Middleton Selkie, 2024 oil on linen 65 x 54 cm 25 5/8 x 21 1/4 in
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      Selkie, 2024
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      65 x 54 cm
      25 5/8 x 21 1/4 in
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    • Mia Middleton The Shape of Paradise, 2024 oil on linen 81 x 65 cm 31 7/8 x 25 5/8 in
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      The Shape of Paradise, 2024
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      81 x 65 cm
      31 7/8 x 25 5/8 in
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    • Mia Middleton Theatrum, 2024 oil on linen 81 x 65 cm 31 7/8 x 25 5/8 in
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      Theatrum, 2024
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      81 x 65 cm
      31 7/8 x 25 5/8 in
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    • Mia Middleton Time is a Trick, 2024 oil on linen 20 x 20 cm 7 7/8 x 7 7/8 in
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      Time is a Trick, 2024
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    • Mia Middleton Wings, 2024 oil on linen 20 x 20 cm 7 7/8 x 7 7/8 in
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      Wings, 2024
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    • Mia Middleton Witness, 2024 oil on linen 20 x 20 cm 7 7/8 x 7 7/8 in
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      Witness, 2024
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    • Mia Middleton Young Loquat, 2024 oil on linen 18 x 14 cm 7 1/8 x 5 1/2 in
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      Young Loquat, 2024
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      18 x 14 cm
      7 1/8 x 5 1/2 in
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  • As long as humans have gathered on the earth, we have spun vernacular histories and mythical postulations around our tangible...
    Mia Middleton
    Magician, 2024
    oil on linen
    20 x 20 cm 7 7/8 x 7 7/8 inches
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    As long as humans have gathered on the earth, we have spun vernacular histories and mythical postulations around our tangible world, knowing innately that there is a deeper experience lurking in the conflation of self and other, of man and beast. Our historic fascination with the supernatural has long helped us bridge that gap. The saga of ‘magic’ is a tangled passage of observation in which subjectivity is obscured and material contortions unfurl in full view. In the theater of illusions, uncertainty is impenitently simple. There is a flicker between smoke and mirror where we catch a glimpse of the eye of the monster, and together we bring each other into being.

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