09/02/2026
Erin Mison’s work draws on an evolving and life long desire to understand people. Working predominantly with textiles, using hand operated tufting to create ornamental tapestries, Mison’s work explores themes of identity curation, s*xuality and socio-cultural anthropology, taking universal yet private stories and re-telling them in evocative pieces.
Her work for Melbourne Art Fair 2026, includes a series titled, The Right to Bathe. The Right to Bathe is a territorial claim to the radical simplicity of a private moment. Inspired by the myth of Diana and Actaeon, these works move beyond the voyeuristic wreckage of antiquity to assert a state of being that requires no outside witness. Historically, the simplicity of the bath is rarely permitted to remain simple once observed. The moment a foreign eye enters the glade, the act is burdened with projection: a superimposed narrative of s*x and expectation. These works refuse that weight. Rendered in textile—a medium transforming domestic silence into a haptic monument—the series insists on the unromanticized reality of intimacy and care.
Presented through a “letterbox”constraint, the viewer is offered only a narrow window into a
sanctuary not built for them. Here, the gaze itself is not the transgression; the error lies in the
baggage the eye brings into the woods.
Erin currently lives and works on the south coast on NSW in Mount Keira/Dharawal. She is a PhD candidate within the field of psychotic experience, schizotypy and adverse childhood experiences. Her textiles are held in University of Wollongong and Deakin University collections, as well as numerous private collections.
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