Mya Wilkinson is a visual artist and freelance photographer based in Bangor, Northern Ireland. 

Her practice explores memory, identity, mental health, and femininity, with a focus on how lived experiences are remembered, misremembered, and emotionally revisited over time. Rooted in personal experience, her work considers the emotional significance of images and their role in shaping and reconstructing memory. 

Working across lens-based media, alongside audio and text, Wilkinson constructs layered work that reflects how memory can feel incomplete and change over time. She combines portraiture, constructed imagery, and archival material to revisit moments from the past, allowing them to be reinterpreted in the present. 

Her work is rooted in the personal experience, using media to revisit and make sense of the past. Through this approach, she creates intimate work that invites viewers to reflect on their own memories, identities and emotional connections over time.

Dirty worn-out pink boot and a pink plastic watering can on a white wall.
A person with long blonde hair dressed as an angel in a white dress with white feathered wings standing outdoors near a white wall with greenery.

Education

  • 2026 - BA (Hons) Photography with Video, First Class Honours – Ulster University

  • 2023 - Level 3 Diploma in Creative Media Production & Technology, Distinction – SERC

Exhibitions

  • 2026 — Something that may shock or discredit you, Ulster University Degree Show

  • 2025 — Amalgamation, Ulster University Belfast Photo Fair

  • 2022 — Visual Impact, The Curve Gallery

Recognitions

  • 2026 — Source Graduate Photography Online

  • 2024 — Belfast 2024, Belfast City Council (Selected contributor)

  • 2023 — 1st Place, Photography, NICMA Inter-College Awards