A Norwich University of the Arts graduate, British textile artist Mia Sylvia has built a, quite literally, monumental career off her emotional connection with fabric — a material the creative remembers first feeling attached to at the age of five, when, terrified of losing her baby blanket, she hand-sewed her full name into its corner so that "in case someone found it, they could return it to me," Sylvia recalls.
Today, the emerging designer assembles textiles she hand-dyes using plant matter, rusted metal, food waste, and botanicals into woven and draped, fantastical fabric sculptures that, more often than not, float mid-air like clouds.
