Miranda Forrester lives and works in London. She holds a BA in Fine Art Painting from the University of Brighton.
Miranda Forrester explores the queer Black female gaze in painting vis a vis the history of men painting women naked. Her work addresses the invisibility of Black women in the western history of art. She investigates how painting is able to re-articulate the language and history of life drawing through a queer Black feminist and desiring lens. In doing so, she depicts what the male gaze may not be able to see.
Forrester says: “My work is a celebration of women’s bodies, the joy in occupying feminine identities and being in relation with one another.”
Recent exhibitions include Hauntology: Ghostly Matters, Mariane Ibrahim gallery, Chicago (group - 2022); Somatic Markings, Kasmin, New York (group - 2022); Our Land Just Like a Dream, Macaal, Marrakech, Morocco (group - 2022); The Company She Keeps, Tiwani Contemporary, Lagos (group - 2022); Hard as Nails, Quench Gallery, Margate (group - 2022); At Peace, Gillian Jason Gallery, London (group - 2021); Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, London (group - 2021); Sixty- Six London, St George’s Place, London (group - 2021); Reality Check, Guts Gallery, London (group - 2021); Poetic Sustenance,Tiwani Contemporary, London (group - 2021); Abode, Guts Gallery, London (solo - 2020).