Mishal Weston was born in 1985 in Harare to a South African Mother and a British Father. They currently live and work in Cape Town. Mishal formally trained as a communication designer, receiving a BTech from CPUT in 2011. As a visual artist, their practice developed parallel to their early freelance career. The work shown in their first group exhibition, Primal Herd, Knext Gallery (2014) was dedicated to an exploration of the materiality of bone. These ideas were further pursued in A New Wave, with Southern Guild in 2016.

Some of the notable group exhibitions of their series working with found objects and scanography include: OEChangeling, Youngblood Africa (2017); Constellation, Incite, Deepest Darkest Art (2019); CUBICLE: Everyday Iridescence, Everard Read / Circa (2022); Wit(h)ness, Cloudigital Art (2024); Session (2024).

Their current practice is engaged with alternative photographic processes and assemblage, in relation to found objects and material explorations.