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permanent collection MIA ROBERTS Mia Roberts is an artist from Holyhead engaging with questions of class and gender. she takes up these questions in her handling of gender-coded materials, setting them against her experiences of living in rural settings. Botulism Repurposed pursues these enquiry lines in positioning a boxing glove not as a weapon, but as a carrier of memory and fiction. Roberts draws inspiration from Ursula K Le Guin’s essay The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction to work care into heroism. Robert’s practice studies the evolving microcultures of small towns in North Wales, paying close attention to local attitudes towards sexuality, masculinity, and mental health. installed in Morecambe Library, this work inflects these elements into Morecambe’s boxing heritage. it asks: how do we reconsider the expendability of history, memory, and masculinity in Morecambe? Botulism Repurposed and selected contextual materials was chosen and curated by Morecambe-based curator Isobel Cawley Botulism Repurposed, porcelain, 2025, is installed at Morecambe Library as part of permanent collection, pairing locally significant artworks with relevant local venues ID1: an A4 poster with the above text, Arts Council and Bay Framing logos bottom left, @Jwllrs_ + jwllrs.net bottom right on a background image of a concrete building with a large triangular window, opposing diagonal structure, with a cobbled stone tiled wall below and castle green sloped roof, surrounded by green leaved tree branches ID2: the previous image without the poster, revealing a large half diamond window, and the the cavity of the building within, looking onto an identical window at the opposite side of the building

Lipstick applicator , applies lipstick when you look at it

I now have a website :)! Swipe to see it working , go to Miaroberts.co.uk (link in bio) any issues let me know so I can fix them

The death of glanton , bronze from the end of fellowship show

Laser etched aluminium detainee rights form, folded into a paper aeroplane (only thing you get to read whilst being processed) thrown into Newborough quarry

Video of lights, Holyhead reacts to the environment , audio is Cilla Blacks “Hooray for Holyhead” video and re-edited photos

3-0 to Holyhead Hotspur (1+ hour)

Keyboard set up at North Stack in Holyhead, at the abandoned foghorn station. it detects pitch and responds , tested it by playing it, regulating one another through responding to previous notes. (Full video on website soon) filmed by @whyhammervizuals

Recent screen grabs from a durational performance near my hometown of Holyhead , mopping 500 stairs at South Stack lighthouse, took around 5 hours. Thank you again @whyhammervizuals for filming me from 6am :)

First test, cybernetic keyboard that uses a mic to feed back and self regulate based on feedback + sound frequencies