Born in Pretoria in 1998, Miró van der Vloed has spent time between Durban, Pretoria, Cape Town and has spent the majority of the last two years in the Free State.

In 2020, he completed a BaFa (with distinction) from Michaelis School of Fine Arts in Cape Town, with a focus on printmaking and sculpture.

Van der Vloed’s interdisciplinary approach includes the careful combination and transformation of found objects and materials. This intentional deconstruction and reshaping suggests the potential for challenging the destructive hegemonic systems- transmuting them in ways that leave them open to the infinite potential for change.  van der Vloed explores the dynamics of home-making and finding one’s place in the world. He became interested in impermanence as a state of being as a result of often moving provinces as a child.

He is currently working in ceramics as his primary medium and has created the series of plates and platters with a focus on queer issues.