CLARE MILLEDGE
b. 1977, AustraliaClare Milledge (b. 1977, Sydney) makes paintings, drawings, installations, photographs, videos and performances that delve into the realm of shamanistic ritual, sacrifice and an invented pre-history. She invokes elemental potency with pigments and geometry and uses text to point ambivalently at ideas as well as images and form to represent them. Textiles appear in her paintings for their texture and connotative power and in her sculptures for their corporeal spirit. Hinterglasmalerei (reverse painting on glass) is a technique Milledge favours for its potential to cohouse a sharpening clarity with a darker, murkier content.
Milledge completed her Doctor of Philosophy at Sydney College of the Arts, the University of Sydney in 2012. Part of her candidacy (2008) was spent at the Universität der Künste, Berlin. Milledge did her Honours year (also administered by Sydney College of the Arts) at the Statenskunst Akademi in Oslo and still maintains an active interest in Norwegian contemporary art.
Milledge has three times been a finalist in the Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship (2007, 2008, 2010) and twice was the recipient of the Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Artists Exchange Scholarship (2006, 2008) which enabled her to study in Oslo and Berlin respectively. In July this year, Milledge was shortlisted as a finalist in the Art on Paper: Hazelhurst Art Award at Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, Sydney. She has a solo show (as yet untitled) scheduled from 31 January - 1 March 2014, at Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne.
Milledge’s work is in the collection of Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne.
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