Miro Wrightson – Lyons, Entitled page, 2026, laser print, drawing paper, acrylic shelf, sticker label.

Miro Wrightson-Lyons is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice currently centres on text and photography as tools for reflecting on personal history, family, identity, and the everyday experiences that shape them. For Miro, the creative process functions as a Trojan horse - an avenue through which difficult subjects such as grief, loss, belonging, and uncertainty can be approached with care, curiosity, and conversation.

Entitled Page takes the form of a publication that draws on the visual language of informational pamphlets and grief brochures distributed by hospices, adopting the aesthetics of materials designed to guide people through processes of loss. Alongside an interest in the distribution and circulation of information, Miro is attentive to the ways context shapes meaning deeply personal photographs can become something simply visually pleasing when detached from their histories, while the familiar can take on unexpected emotional weight.

The publication reflects Miro’s ongoing engagement with questions of identity and whakapapa. As someone beginning to explore his Samoan heritage, he navigates the complexities of cultural belonging, visibility, and the anxiety of occupying spaces he sometimes feels disconnected from. Throughout the work, photographs and texts sit alongside one another, with layers of transparency acting both formally and metaphorically to obscure and dilute vulnerable material.

While grounded in earnest self-reflection, Miro’s practice is equally shaped by playfulness. Humour, experimentation, and the pleasures of making are not departures from heavier themes but strategies for living alongside them - ways of seeking out and holding onto the good things in life.