Miranda’s practice is an ongoing exploration of the relationship between humans and the natural world. 

 

I encounter places through immersion as much as observation. My work is a response to the sensation of being in a landscape, particularly in conditions where you feel it physically. I have been researching the many ways that human are inseparable from the natural world. Whether it be through natural cycles like fungal networks and the water cycle or via a deeper awareness that sits behind everyday thoughts.

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Miranda’s paintings offer spaces in which viewers can step outside habitual ways of seeing and thinking, and consider their own place within a larger, interconnected landscape. They invite an awareness of the connections that exist between bodies, places and the constantly moving world around them.

 

Water is central to her work, functioning both as a metaphor and as a material within her practice. It is constantly moving between bodies and environments, the water you drink today may once have been in a glacier, a fish, or another person. This raises questions about the boundaries placed between ourselves and the natural world, and about how the ways in which water is treated and shared are connected to how humans treat themselves and their environments. Pollution in one place eventually travels through shared water systems. Climate change affects water availability and quality, which affects people unequally.

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My current work explores water both as a physical material and as a way of experiencing landscape. I have been gathering water and soil from the places where I walk and swim. These samples now hold my memories and I've been experimenting with ways to weave them into my work, embedding the physical traces of place within the work itself. I am drawn to the idea that water carries memory, acting as a witness to the landscapes, histories and bodies it moves through.