Woven Into the World
Gallery
May, 10th - 11th, 2025
Free gallery, Cristal Palace, London
Electric Kin
A mythic trio of soft-edged beings, flickering at the threshold of emergence. Painted in saturated gradients on raw cotton, these forms conjure sentient energy—Alert, Dreaming, & In-motion.
Spring is more than blossoming—it’s an inner surge:
Instinctual, Electric, Strange
Each creature is a kind of rebirth—some Crawling, Drifting, or Mid-metamorphosis. They’re not of this world, but of a nearby one:
Spectral kin of a parallel season.
This is the first collaborative series by Mia Upton & Frazer Lyden, long-time creative friends since their BA. Mia is an RCA 2024 graduate exploring colour & speculative transformation through textiles. Frazer, a mixed-media designer from Kent, blends screen printing, airbrush, & sculptural forms—currently on a self-led MA with his grandfather, a former RCA print lecturer.
Their collaboration fuses instinct & structure—Electric Kin celebrates strange, radiant new beginnings.
Gallery
May, 2025
Fox Yard Studio, Stowmarket
Harbour Memory
This series reimagines the boats of Hong Kong’s harbour—fishing boats alongside the iconic red & white Junk, often known as a party boat & a powerful symbol of the city. Seen through the eyes of my younger self, the work evokes personal memory & cultural identity.
Woven with Scottish lambswool on a Jacquard loom & finished with hand embroidery, it connects my childhood home to my ancestral roots through Colour, Texture, & Craft.
Gallery
March - April, 2025
House of Smalls, Edinburgh
Tartan Bloom
Industry Waste Yarn
This experimental woven piece inspired by her academic research on the colour pink.
Created using repurposed industry waste yarn, it features a rich interplay of shades of pink, complemented by accents of her Clan tartan Munro colours. This is part of her series of work which focused on brightening tartan. This work reflects Mia Upton’s deep engagement with tartan design & her research into traditional weaving techniques.