Miranda Forrester

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 Interiorities, Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Chicago IL (solo - 2024); Together We Thrive, Culture& and Sotheby’s Institute of Art, in collaboration with Gallery OCA and venue Cromwell Place, London (group - 2024); Arrival, Tiwani Contemporary, London (solo - 2023); LEDA and the SWAN: a myth of creation and destruction, Victoria Miro Gallery II, London (group - 2023); Like Paradise, Claridges Art Space, London (solo - 2023); 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). Other shows in 2020: Every Woman Biennial, Copeland Gallery, London; Top 100 (The Auction Collective), London; When s**t hits the fan again, Guts Gallery (online); Miranda Forrester & Emily Moore, Phoenix Brighton; Narrating Life, Studi0 gallery, St Moritz, Switzerland; Pending, San Mei Gallery, London; Antisocial Isolation, Saatchi Gallery, London; Begin Again, Guts Gallery, Online exhibition raising funds for The Free Black Uni; FBA Futures, Mall Galleries, London. In 2019: PLOP End of residency show, The Koppel Project; Mercurial Matters: The Organic Feminine, Lock-in Gallery, Hove; How did we get here - Decolonising the Curriculum, Brighton University, Brighton.