About Mia Bashir
Mia Bashir uses the heritage craft of letterpress to create images out of words, to produce limited edition prints. Her work explores the ways we construct meaning through language and is inspired by Magritte’s painting “The Treachery of Images” (This is not a pipe), which reflected on the relationship between text and image. Her “Post a Tweet” series of postcards are part of an ongoing project exploring human communication, labour and energy consumption across the digital and analogue worlds. As a neurodiverse artist, Bashir responds to the technical rigour, precise nature and physical constraints of letterpress, and enjoys working within its limitations to develop its creative potential.
Bashir was introduced to printmaking whilst working at Leicester Print Workshop, and began to develop her artistic practice in 2021 when she was awarded an Arts Council DYCP grant. Her first commission was a collaboration with Emma Powell at the Hepworth, Wakefield (2022), as part of DASH’s “We are Invisible, We are Visible” national project celebrating 100 years of Dada, and their interventions playfully critiqued the language used in contemporary art interpretation.