ABOUT

I am a textile artist, sculptor, and storyteller working at the intersection of environmental care, spatial design, and material transformation. I use reclaimed fabrics hand-dyed with pigments sourced from plants, minerals, and rust to create large-scale installations. These works transform textiles into living landscapes that move through and shape the spaces they inhabit, turning the surroundings into memory and textiles into atmosphere.

I reject symmetry and perfection. Instead, I lean into movement, negative space, light interplay, and instinct. Each fall, knot, and curve is improvised and shaped in real time in response to the space itself. For me, fabric is a medium for emotion; it holds presence and carries energy. Whether suspended high in vaulted ceilings or layered across industrial frames, my installations soften hard edges and conjure intimacy, memory, and awe. My work invites presence, curiosity, and wonder, disrupting and reframing how we see and feel space, transforming blank rooms into poetic environments.

My sculptures invite viewers to move alongside them, witnessing how fabric folds, twists, and falls in ways that feel both organic and intentional. Scale and movement shape the experience, shifting how people engage with architecture by bringing texture and emotion into the environment.

I approach textiles as vessels of transformation, carriers of history, touch, and subconscious memory. My commitment to natural dyeing is a philosophical stance rooted in environmental attunement. The hues I extract from rust, avocado pits, chrysanthemums, onion skins, and other natural materials record time, seasonality, and soil, making each installation site-responsive and contextually nuanced.

My work seeks to open new ways of experiencing space and material, inviting curiosity and wonder while weaving together nature, memory, and human presence.

BIOGRAPHY

Mia Sylvia Herrod is an Essex, UK-based textile artist and sculptor whose work explores transformation, regeneration, and the emotional resonance of materials. Known for her large-scale, site-specific fabric installations, Mia works with reclaimed textiles and natural dyes, creating sculptural pieces that reimagine space and transform discarded materials into poetic, immersive spatial works.

A graduate of Norwich University of the Arts, her practice is rooted in principles of sustainability and material storytelling. She uses plant matter, rusted metal, food waste, and botanicals to hand-dye textiles, producing layered, organic colour palettes that reflect cycles of decay and renewal. Her installations embrace asymmetry, movement, and negative space.

Mia’s work has been shown at the Tate Modern (2019), Addenbrooke’s Hospital (2022–2023), and featured in collaborations for London Fashion Week. Her work has appeared in Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and Hypebae, and she was featured in The Alchemist, a short film shortlisted for the Istanbul and Cannes World Film Festivals. She is the recipient of multiple awards, including the Corporate LiveWire Global Award for Textile Designer of the Year.

As an international educator, Mia has led workshops in the UK, Armenia, Bulgaria, and Mexico, sharing natural dyeing and sustainable textile techniques. Through her artistic and educational practice, she invites audiences to reconsider value, beauty, and the life cycle of materials - blending the tactile with the transcendent.