About

 Mia Rappel is a practicing visual artist working primarily in collage, sculptural installation and digital storytelling, her work aims to articulate through form, movement, texture and colour. Mia also works in the social sector devising and facilitating public art projects and has worked extensively as a visual designer for retail, interior and outdoor spaces.

Mia completed a Bachelor of Visual and Performing Arts at The VCA in Melbourne 1999.

Over the past 20 years Mia has created works for council, corporate, retail and private clients, including Husk, e.g etal, Adidas, Yarra Ranges Shire, Melton Shire and City of Greater Dandenong. Her exhibitions include From Nature at Gasworks, Sculpture by the Sea Cottesloe, Art Town at Chapel off Chapel and The Passage at Carbon Black. She has been an Artist in Residence at Baile en el Aire Spain, La Muse France and Police Point in Point Nepean National Park, Australia.

Selected Projects

2024

BLUE. Textile Installation. International (Park)ing Day, Blairgowrie.

Minuet 1 & 2. Textile Collage. Threads Exhibition. Gasworks, Port Melbourne.

Symphony in Blue 1-4. Cyanotype Collage. Threads Exhibition. Gasworks, Port Melbourne.

2018

Flame Leaves. From Nature Exhibition. Gasworks, Port Melbourne.

One En-Chanted Evening.  Décor. Melbourne Fringe Festival, Abbotsford Convent.

Police Point Artist in Residence. Arts Residency. Point Nepean, Mornington Peninsula

 2017

Platypus’s Waterhole – Dulaiwurrong Tambaree. Digital Project. Yarra Ranges Shire.

 2016

 Bend and Sway. Stonington Art Town Exhibition. Chapel off Chapel Gallery, Prahran.

Window into Wurrun: Children Connecting to Reconciliation. Digital Project. Yarra Ranges Shire.

 2015

 Sweet Co. Store Interior. Lido Complex, Hawthorn

Sweet Co. Sculptural Light Installtion. Lido Complex, Hawthorn

 2014

Apple Tree. Art Project. Diggers Rest Primary School and Shire of Melton.

 2013

Silk Waves. Stonnington Art Town Exhibition. Chapel off Chapel Gallery, Prahran. Winner of the People’s Choice Award

Sharing our Stories. Digital Project and Installation. Yarra Ranges Shire, Eastern Rogional Libraries, Healesville Indigenous Community Services Association.

 2012

Many Threads. Sculpture by the Sea Cottesloe. Cottesloe, W.A.

Sweet Co. Store Interiors. Sassafras & Olinda Sweet Co.

Mali’s Crimson Song. Mali in the City Public Art Project. Melbourne Zoo & Wild at Art.

Summer Cave Installation. e.g etal contemporary jewellery and objects. Flinders Lane Melbourne.

 2011

The Passage. Solo Exhibition. Carbon Black Gallery, Prahran.

Many Threads. Stonnington Art Town Exhibition. Chapel off Chapel Gallery, Prahran. Winner of the People’s Choice Award

2010

The Game. Installation. Woodford Folk Festival.

 La Muse. 4 week Artist Residency. South West France.

Positive Body Image Project.  Public Art Installation. Caroline Springs Secondary College.

2009

 Heirloom. Installation. e.g. etal. Flinders Lane, Melbourne.

Carving Out A Place. Projection Art Project. Yarra Ranges Shire, Healesville.

Youth Art Public Art Project. Shire of Melton Youth Services Centre. Melton.

 Walker St Windows. City of Greater Dandenong.

 2008

 Dolls with Souls. Exhibition. Federation Square, Melbourne.

 Hollow Pod. Private Collection.

Aunties Parlour, Urchins Collectables, May Branches & Autumn Threads. BODY, St Kilda, Centre Place, Woollahra.

Spiral 3. Rainbow Serpent international arts, music and lifestyle festival, Beaufort.   

2006

Great Hands & Jungle Mural. Group Mural at Youth Substance Abuse Services. Fitzroy 

2005

 10th Anniversary Party. Husk. Toorak.

 Sunshine Head Piece. Flinders Quarter Award, Melbourne International Fashion Festival.

The Boat & Copper Shadow. Kindred Studios, Yarraville.

Remember. Husk, Toorak, Albert Park, Collins St, Melbourne

2004

Snake. Shearwater Wearable Art Performance, Ballina N.S.W.

The Cascade. Australian Greens Party national campaign launch, The Malthouse.

 75 & Spiral 2. Phenomenon Gallery. High St, Armadale.

 Pods, Stitch & Forest Panels. Mark Tuckey. Fitzroy.

 Pillar and Jewel. Arthur Galan, Sth Yarra, G.P.O, Lt Collins St Melbourne, Oxford St Sydney.

 Leap. Adidas, Q.V. Building, Sydney.

Butterfly Queen. State of Design Festival, Husk, Collins St.

Celebrate, Badges & Spiral 1. Husk, Toorak, Albert Park, Collins St

2003

Adidas Wrapped. Adidas, Q.V. Building Sydney

 2002

Faces & Words. Performance Event and Installation. The Barn at French Style, Prahran.

 2000

Baile en el Aire. 3 month Art & Performance Residency. Southern Spain

 1999

 Corridor Installation. Victorian College of the Arts.

Mezzanine Installation. Victorian College of the Arts.

Education

Bachelor of Visual and Performing Arts, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University. 1999

Info

Mia Rappel

Mornington Peninsula.

Melbourne, Australia.

hello@miamia.biz

Please feel free to contact me to discuss any potential future projects, or to inquire about any past projects.

I love to create and I love to work…. Lets talk.