Ava Mikael

Ava Mikael

Philippine‑born, UK‑based artist

Ava Mikael creates large‑scale textile and hand-scale story installations that explore the meeting point of craft, mystery narratives, and consciousness. Her practice merges Southeast Asian material and spiritual sensibility with the lineage of British textile art, shaping cloth into sculptural forms that invite reflection, calm, and re-enchantment.

Guided by a long study of Anthroposophy, psychological transformation, and the narrative power of fairytale, Mikael’s work contemplates how the visible can reveal the invisible. Through her living praxis, Surgo Misterios, she investigates art’s capacity to restore stillness that makes possible for the return to meaning in an accelerated age—offering experiences that balance intellectual precision with contemplative depth.

Her recent publication, The Twelve Holy Nights, and forthcoming collection of contemporary fairytales, Surgo Misterios writings alongside sculptures, paintings and installations extend this inquiry into living form: works that breathe, hold silence, and meditate on humanity’s enduring search for participation, reverence and embodiment.

A close-up black and white photograph of a woman with half her face visible on the left side of the image, and the right side showing her sculpture mother Albion, including a pillow with a floral design and another with a dotted pattern.