Mia Gubbay

The image shows a detail from a collage made of paper cuttings combining decorative elements, blue and white Eyo festival hats (Nigeria), golden domes from the cathedral in Kiev, and details from Renaissance Sculptures.

The image shows a collage made of paper cuttings combining parts of a photograph of the Shawlands cross and a star-shaped form made with colourful decorative elements.

The image shows a collage made of paper cuttings combining images of custard apple, pyramidal monuments, nigerian huts, stones and soil

The image shows a detail from a collage made of paper cuttings combining a cactus tree, a leg of a woman wearing parachute pants, three Matakam huts that can be identified as cylindrical long pointy thatched roofs, a cat and meerkat.

The image shows a detail from a collage made of paper cuttings combining images of mangoes, cacti, islamic ornamental elements and plaster copies of eyes, noses, ears from Renaissance sculptures.

Artwork is displayed on tables and standing alone on a wooden floor.

Sculptures are displayed on a wooden table. In the background there is artwork displayed on the wall featuring written text.

Artwork featuring black and white type is displayed on a wall with blurred sculptures seen in the foreground.

Artwork featuring black and white type is displayed on a wall.

A cut out of a human form is displayed on a wooden floor.

Sculptures are displayed on a wooden table and the floor, with artwork featuring written text on a wall behind.

Mia Gubbay is a heritage consultant whose work focuses on collaborative practices including co-curation and co-collecting. Themes of this work include migration, trans-location and collective re-imagining of place. Mia’s family histories of movement, entangled with legacies of British and Dutch imperialism in the Middle East and Southeast Asia, help her to connect with the strengths, poetry and stories of other communities whose experiences have been written out of history. Mia collaborates with a wide range of heritage, academic and creative practitioners, often within the context of third sector and community-led organisations. She facilitates and coordinates the co-design of platforms for sensitive, meaningful dialogue.

Current and recent projects include Traces of Empire Historic Environment Scotland, curator, 2023-24; Our Power Mental Health Foundation curator, 2024; Lessons in Welcome Scottish Refugee Council, consultant, 2022-2023; Tilal with the Rediscovering the Antonine Wall project for West Dunbartonshire Council and Historic Environment Scotland consultant, 2022; Assistant Curator of the Migration Collections Project at Glasgow Museums 2018-2020. Mia studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and the Institute of Archaeology, UCL.

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Mia Gubbay

Monuments for the Present