Miri Badger (b1996) is an Meanjin/Brisbane based artist whose multidisciplinary practice investigates melancholy through symbolism: both in the natural and human-affected world. Her current practice centres around painting and ceramics. She draws from everyday forms to illuminate the minutiae of life; idle moments of modest beauty through an autobiographical lens. These works question our tendencies to imbue meaning, narrative and selfhood into lifeless objects and scenery; in ways language fails to do.

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In 2019 Badger graduated with Honours in Fine Art at Queensland College of Art and in 2017 from National Art School with a Bachelor of Fine Art. Significant exhibitions include 'Take, Replace Cover' at Carpark Gallery 2024, 'Ikkuna <Window>' at Outer Space in 2023. She has been a finalist in The Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize 2023, the Elaine Birmingham National Watercolour Prize in 2020, Mosman Youth Art Prize, and the winner of the Studio W graduate Exhibition Prize in 2017.

 

Image by Ghina Sari.