Mikala Dwyer creates fantastical installations that question the order and seriousness of the contemporary art space. She currently divides her time between Sydney and Berlin.
Mikala Dwyer / Artist biography
Dwyer's installations are like playgrounds for an alien species, or for some fantastic mutation of the human race. They're fun and funny, if in an unnatural and unearthly way. Her cubbyhouse architecture is fabricated from bits and pieces of urban humdrum, abducted from their commonplace duties and let loose in her immersive installations.
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Dwyer has held solo shows throughout Australia and in Switzerland, The UK and New Zealand with the most recent being Black Sun Blue Moon, Spielhaus Morrison Galerie, Berlin, 2007. She was in the group show High Tide, which showed at Zacheta Gallery of Art Warsaw, and the Contemporary Art Center Vilnius in 2006. She was awarded the Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship in 2004. Dwyer's work is held in major public collections in Australia and New Zealand.
