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Miriam Elia

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Miriam Elia: How art helped heal my broken heart

An empty room with the lights going on and off, athletes running through a hallway or a piece of blu-tack stuck to a wall: as Martin Creed knows, anything can become art, given a little conceptual tweaking. What about a relationship, though? Or the end of one? Three years ago, Creed met a young artist/comedian called Miriam Elia. Now Elia, 29, has taken the lead from her ex-boyfriend and has fashioned their brief encounter into an artwork, entitled I Fell In Love With a Conceptual Artist, and It Was Totally Meaningless!!!

Alice Jones, The Independent, 12th November 2011

Interview with Miriam Elia

Miriam Elia's so dreamy... ahem, that is to say that she's a well-respected comedian and visual artist who has appeared in film, TV, radio, and probably some format not yet available to the general populace.

The Humourdor, 15th May 2011

Rising stars 2008: Meet the bright young things

The winner of this year's BBC Witty & Twisted award, Miriam Elia has pretentious liberals in her sights.

The Independent, 7th September 2008

The head of the heard: Radio comedies vie for Sony Award

An unknown comedian has been shortlisted for the biggest prize in radio comedy - alongside the likes of Paul Whitehouse, Mark Thomas and Mitchell and Webb - with her first ever show. Miriam Elia landed a six-part series on digital channel BBC 7 after winning the corporation's Witty And Twisted competition last year, which sought new writers for radio. Now her show A Series of Psychotic Episodes has been nominated for the prestigious Sony Award for radio comedy.

Chortle, 10th April 2008

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