About Me

Martha Mikaela De Ramos, operating under the name IDioM is a multi-disciplinary artist working through three distinct projects, these are the My.Ka project, el.la project and the Mar.Tha project. These projects centre around themes of experimentation, materialism, the Anthropocene epoch, identity, culture, and the human condition, each project employing distinct artistic mediums within three distinct identity projects. ​ IDioM was chosen as the main artistic name to reflect the several projects that comprise her art. She fell in love with the word when she discovered the words meaning: to not mean what was said, but to express oneself through a phrase. As each project feels like a different version of her, it felt like the best way to describe her work as a singular artistic enterprise. ​ My.Ka focuses on the experimentation of Material, mostly in the field of ceramics; questioning the boundaries between clay and glaze and the fluidity of their definition and their description of material used. ​ el.la is a project of no boundaries within a curious romantic mind. Playing and falling in love with the world around her, el.la is a project of no explanation, but a permission to exist without a cage of reason. Mar.Tha focuses on complex, long-term projects, diving into her mixed culture upbringing from growing up in the Philippines, England, and Australia, and her navigation of the cultures she has been intertwined in as a multi-cultural woman, and ethnicity as a Filipino-Tagalog woman. ​ IDioM was recently exhibited at Talente: Masters of the Future in Munich, Germany, March 2023. In 2022 IDioM was the recipient of the Canberra Potters’ Society (CPS) Award, culminating in her first group institutional exhibition. IDioM is a recent graduate from the Australian National University in 2022 with a Bachelor of Visual Arts and was the recipient of the ANU School of Art & Design Emerging Artist Support Scheme in 2021. She has exhibited in local galleries in Canberra, including the Canberra Potters Society and ANU: SOA&D Gallery. In July 2022, The Journal of Australian Ceramics published My.Ka's artwork with other graduating students in the National Education Pictorial Survey.