Miranda Westaway is a young artist, who was born, raised and is currently living in Brisbane, Australia. At present, she is undertaking her Bachelors of Visual Arts at the Queensland College of Art and Design, where she is immersing herself deeper and deeper into the rich world of creative and philosophical thinking. Over the past few years, Westaway has had her work displayed in multiple exhibitions, including ones that she co-curated. She has also had her work featured by Texas Band Quinn the Brain and in the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art’s magazine, Artlines.

Westaway’s work expands across disciplines, from painting, sculpture and printmaking, to creative-writing and poetry. Prominent within her work are themes of the self, memory, otherness, and a fascination with all things melancholy and at times morbid. In particular, Westaway has drawn inspiration from the likes of Louise Bourgeois, Leonora Carrington, and Chiharu Shiota, among others. Not too unfamiliar from that of the late expressionists and surrealists, Westaway seeks to give form to the kooky and melancholic rattle that lives inside her mind; and possibly your mind too.