About

About.

Mira Knoche's paintings, sculptures, events, and writing explore a curiosity in people, bodies, power, class, gender and community. She investigates material qualities and stories, female gazes onto the world, through abstract and figurative art.

Her current research practice is focused around reinventing mythologies, reconsidering canonical historical art and popular imagery from an intersectional perspective, sometimes with theatrical curiosity delving into the grotesque. She aims to both revive archetypal, culturally ingrained imagery as well as obliquely shift and question inherent representations of perceived realities, such as gender roles.

Her series in painting and sculpture, ‘Sisyphus as Woman’ (2021) marked the start of this project. She furthered her research practice during a scholarship-funded residency at the New York Academy of Art (2022), and has since developed her practice in sculpture, sound art and painting for her degree show at the Glasgow School of Art.

Mira managed a punk band for a while, and in 2019 founded womxn-led WENCH collective who organise art & music events and co-curated several group exhibitions as part of Naked Aye Art collective. She has written on art for Bella Caledonia and more. In 2019 she had a solo exhibition at Edinburgh Central Art & Design Library and has shown paintings and installations as part of numerous group shows at Salt Space Gallery in Glasgow (2020, 2021, and 2022), Pier Arts Centre (2022), The Life Room (Edinburgh, 2022), the New York Academy of Art (2022) and beyond.

She recently graduated from the Glasgow School of Art, and works from the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop and her studio in Leith.

You can follow me on Instagram.

Further links:
WENCH event in Aug 2019
WENCH female led art & music collective
Nakedayeart.wordpress.com
Naked Aye Art - Facebook

Press:
WENCH Takeover of The Skinny radio - Aug 2019
WENCH in The Skinny - Scotland’s Best Events this Week - Aug 2019
The Edinburgh Reporter - Naked Aye
The Skinny - Naked Aye