Isabella Miles-Hardt is a British-based photographic artist who works across mixed media, with photography at the centre of her practice. Her work explores themes of connection, memory, and introspection, with a particular focus on the domestic environment as a site of emotional and symbolic complexity within this current project. Miles-Hardt is interested in how meaning can be constructed and destabilised through materiality, gesture, and modes of presentation.

Miles-Hardt’s current practice centres on her parents, focusing on the domestic environment. Photographing people she knows intimately has shifted her approach. She is less concerned with capturing a resolved or aesthetic image, and more interested in what can be felt, traced, or remembered over time.

Alongside the photographs, Miles-Hardt incorporates drawn lines and handwritten responses, using these gestures as evidence of looking, records of attention that highlights process over outcomes. These marks do not aim to define, but instead act as traces, suggesting movement, routine, and the passage of time.

In this context, the photographic image is no longer a static, stable document, but a collection. Miles-Hardt wanted to explore how these can each represent a person and time through their own version of gestural language. This approach reflects her broader interest in the instability of visual language. Through the layering of these elements, the work moves beyond a fixed representation and becomes something more unstable and reflective of memory and familiarity.

Miles-Hardt is particularly interested in how the process itself can function as the work, rather than leading toward a single, polished outcome. And so all together she hopes the work speaks on routine, memory, movement of both body and time and how quiet observation of everyday moments contribute to an exploration of how seemingly mundane experiences can hold significant emotional depth when given time and focus.