work by Miriam Elia
Throughout Lockdown, I scurried away to a basement in Soho and created a beautiful hand-painted book ‘We do Lockdown.’ The limited Artists edition, printed on fine Nautilus paper, has just arrived back from printers. You can buy a copy here: www.dungbeetlebooks.com
Artists edition is £20 (1000 imprint), commercial edition available in Waterstones and many independent bookshops for £8.99
In March of 2020, Eight original paintings from my Dung Beetle books went on show in Amsterdam at ‘A Perfect Day’ exhibition. I opened the show on the 6th, and did a live Q&A on the 7th.
A series of hand drawn etchings based on my observational sketches of Thamesmead. This was a brutalist London suburb created in the late 1960s, by the GLC. It went into decline after being used as the set for Kubrick’s ‘A Clockwork Orange,’ and now exists as a kind of monument to a failed utopia. The soft ground etching techniques, using shades of grey, is echoed in the neglected estate.
I should of posted this months ago, but I’ve pretty slack. Here is a link to a feature Rankin wrote on my work for Hunger magazine. The above portrait was shot by Rankin, and reads ‘God Hates style magazines.’
http://www.hungertv.com/art-culture/feature/funny-girl-miriam-eria/
I have recently written, performed and directed five short films for the channel 4 arts strand ‘Random Acts.’ Each film looks at the life of a different animal surviving in the current economic climate. The broadcast dates are;
