Mia Catherine Elise Coutts is a Scottish artist and recent graduate of the Glasgow School of Art. Working primarily with analogue media, she produces long form drawings informed by natural landscapes.
Her practice is shaped by ideas of entropy and impermanence, and by an interest in how contemporary life distances us from processes of making. She repeatedly returns to the same subjects, shifting viewpoints, and distorting original images to explore how perception changes through prolonged looking.
In response to the speed of digital image[ER1] , her work asks the viewer to slow down. Scale and recurring motifs such as windows create a more demanding and intimate experience. Faults of process are left visible, stressing the handmade nature of the work and asserting the presence of the human within the image.
