 Mia Galo was born in Sydney, Australia and lives in Avalon, Sydney on the Northern Beaches.
Mia studied Graphic Design, Life Drawing, Photography, Typography and Sculpture for 5 years at Randwick Tafe and Balmain College of the Arts.
She worked as an Art Director and Illustrator for 15 years and as a singer/songwriter for 5 years.
Mia has been painting full time since 1995.
Painting is my opportunity to explore, to push, provoke, confront and question. It's a continuous challenge, an ongoing source of intoxication and obsession.
My fascination with the human, and especially female form, provides endless inspiration. The sensuality, the curves, the arc of a back, the tilt of a head.
Even when painting abstracts and landscapes the female curves somehow make their way into the artwork.
Music plays a major part in the creative process for me. My love of music means I'm constantly listening to it as I paint. The series "Verve" was inspired by a particular piece as was "The Wow Factor".
Many of my paintings take as their source of inspiration a conversation, an emotion or an experience. Often something quite small and insignificant can trigger a response that results in a series.
I don't intend for my art to be a passive experience.
I'm passionate about what I paint and my aim is to share that with the viewer. My intention is to inspire and stir something inside the viewer, something unexplainable but tangible.
Painting is highly emotive and instinctual for me.
I like to leave myself open to experience the immediacy; to produce art that is close to the skin; to explore the possibilities of form and create moving, vibrant and entertaining work, for myself and the viewer.
"Is there someone in the world that you're born to hate?"
Writer/ Director Clara Chong has written "Rivals" - a feature film about three girls, two of them rivals from childhood. Clara and Cinematographer Ben Allan approached me to paint for the movie earlier this year.
It will begin shooting in Sydney in June/ July 2007. Set in Event Management, the story follows the lives of three girls that are friends at school and end up crossing paths later in life.
The same rivalry and competitiveness that they experienced in childhood rears it's ugly head again in adulthood and the consequences are dire.
Painting for the movie will be a challenge that I know I will enjoy.
It will entail painting a series inspired by the story line that will feature on the walls of office foyers, boardrooms, fashion shows and apartments.
To coincide with the release of the film I will have an exhibition in Woollhara, Sydney, titled "Rivals".
For more information visit the Rivals website on www.liza.com.au .
For more information on Writer/ Director, Clara Chong visit www.clarachong.com and Cinematographer Ben Allan at www.benallanacs.com .
"Mia's work is generous, passionate, boundless. She displays an innate understanding of colour, texture and space."
"The energy and movement in Mia Galo's work is inspiring. She manages to capture a moment - and you're (the viewer) there. Her use of texture and colour is verging on sculptural. You're compelled to touch it - like a sculpture."
"Mia's dynamic women cavort across canvases in rich splashes of colour and line. Unashamedly provocative and even voyeuristic, Mia's work attracts and stimulates the viewer rather than confronting them. Mia's work proves her unparalleled ability to convey the sensual through colour and texture alone. Indeed it is this elevation of the corporeal that gives Mia's work its intoxicating vitality."
Artwork in collections in Europe, England, America, Japan, Hong Kong and Australia.
Orson and Blake/ Mac Cosmetics Art for Aids
PLC College
Victor Chang Heart Foundation
Greenpeace
Masks - For Children with Disabilities.
November 1999 - Manly Daily - Arts and Entertainment
December 1999 - Sun Herald -Sunday Metro
August 2000 - Sun Herald - Sunday Metro
November 2002 - The Australian, Cumberland News
December 2002- Cumberland News
January 2003 - Cumberland News
May 2003 - Belle Magazine
October 2003 - Melbourne Age.
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