March 2025
Laura Seymour
Laura is a mixed media artist based in Brighton with a background in design, film and animation. Inspired by the physical form and telling stories with her art she’s drawn to making objects from miniatures (a passion that started young!) to puppets and papier mache creations.
Her models are a playful and expressive study of both the human form and identity, often suspended in mid-pose as seen in her series of Circus acrobats and performers. Designed to hang freely in mid-air and catch the light these ladies also celebrate the bold and brave early circus female pioneers such as Miss Lala, Alice Clark-Brown, Leona Dare, Lena Jordan and Antoinette Concello. Inspiring women who deserve their place in history!
Other models sit across themes such as the ‘Shelfish Women’ – a series of women sitting ‘on the shelf’ to represent the need for women to take up more space in society and new works exploring the Mummers - travelling theatre folk performers.
Laura is also in the development stage for a series of workshops in Hove in collaboration with therapeutic clinic ‘Ochre House’ to deliver a model making course to support women who are going through a period of change and challenge either following serious health conditions or a life event, exploring their identity and creativity through the process of making their own model. The first of these courses will be delivered later in 2025.
This display is the first artistic collaboration between Laura and Mia. Good friends, Laura and Mia worked together for several years running Foodini Club (a children’s cooking & crafting club) and have shared many an adventure in creativity. Mia’s beautiful ethereal colourful paintings marry well with Laura's circus performers to create a magical and somewhat fantastical theatre-like scene, a perfect setting to celebrate movement, performance and powerful women this March.
For enquiries, to purchase a model, commissions and workshops contact Laura
@lawdrah
Mia Sargent
Ever since she was a little girl Mia wanted to be a ‘travelling artist’. Now based in Brighton this dream has endured, although these days the travelling largely consists of exploring inner worlds and how they inform the outer world we all inhabit; the transitional and transformative spaces that can be so hard to define in words.
Mia’s work is influenced by folk art, fairy tales and the edges of things both esoteric and the world around us in nature and our everyday lives. Following studies in children's book illustration at Central St Martins Mia has held a lifelong interest in children's literature and she’s interested in how the stories we share shape us. Her art practice often starts from a place of shape, form and the interplay between light and dark, offering a portal into deeper stories and mystery though her warm, bold and distinctive colourful style.
Mia’s art training started as a young child when she was taught after school by her neighbour, a local artist called Jacky Bellamy. In more recent years Mia has benefited greatly from the inspiring guidance of Denise Harrison who runs a weekly gathering of local artists called Paint. Mia has shown her works with this group at the Fishermans Quarter Gallery as well as in Open houses on the seven dials Art Trail.
Mia’s day job is framing pictures from her ‘ArtFlo’ workshop in Seven Dials and is a proud sponsor of both the Seven Dials and Fiveways AOH trails.
For enquiries, to buy works, commissions and framing contact Mia
@art_flo_brighton
