Judy Millar

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Judy Millar
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Millar at the Venice Biennale Youth Forum in 2017
Born1957
NationalityNew Zealand
Education1983.MFA Auckland University's Elam School of Fine Arts
Awards1990 Italian Government Post-Graduate Scholarship, Accademia Albertina delle Belle Arti, Turin, Italy. 1994 Moet & Chandon Fellowship, Avize. 2002 Paramount Award, Wallace Art Awards, New Zealand

Penelope Judith Millar (born 1957) is a New Zealand artist, who lives in Auckland, New Zealand and Berlin, Germany.

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Education

Millar received a BFA in 1980 and an MFA from Auckland University's Elam School of Fine Arts in 1983. As recipient of a Scholarship from the Italian Government in 1990, she spent a year in Turin, Italy, where she studied Italian arts of the 1960s and 1970s.

Paintings

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Judy Millar in her Anawhata studio, 2022

Millar is known for her abstract acrylic and oil paintings. While her works may recall Abstract Expressionist paintings, Millar does not consider her paintings as being 'gestural'. In an interview with Ocula in 2016, she said that,

The word that always sets my teeth on edge is ‘gesture.’ Gesture seems like something that comes gushing out from deep inside you. That is not really what I am interested in. My work is much more about drawing; it is about looking and seeing, less about ‘expressing’. I’m using gesture only in the sense that a gesture can communicate something. [1]

Awards and honours

Residencies

Exhibitions

Millar's work 'Call me Snake' in Christchurch Call me Snake by Judy Millar, Christchurch, New Zealand.jpg
Millar's work 'Call me Snake' in Christchurch

Millar has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in both New Zealand and Europe and found critical acclaim in the international press.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

Her painterly style was described as "energetic and overwhelming", [6] and Andrea Hilgenstock calls her paintings "spectacular". [7] Further references can be found in recent publications on New Zealand art. [8] [9] [10] [11]

Her works can be found in the collections of the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Dunedin Public Art Gallery the Auckland Art Gallery, the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Christchurch Art Gallery, and numerous private collections throughout Europe.

She represented New Zealand at the 53rd Venice Biennial in 2009. [12] This project is recreated in miniature in the 2014 pop-up book Swell, created in collaboration with paper engineer Phillip Fickling and writer Trish Gribben – this book in turn inspired full-scale pop-up style works for her solo exhibition The Model World and large sculptures for SCAPE and the Auckland Art Gallery. [13] [14]

In 2011 she was again part of the Venice Biennale in the collateral event Personal Structures in Palazzo Bembo. [15]

Current

Millar is represented by Michael Lett in Auckland, Gallery Mark Müller in Zurich, Hamish Morrison Gallery in Berlin, and Sullivan Strumpf, Sydney.

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References

  1. "Judy Millar in Conversation | Ocula". ocula.com. 4 March 2019. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
  2. Wallace Arts Trust
  3. McCahon – McCahon Arts Residency Archived 15 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  4. 1 2 Emmerling, Leonhard (2010). Judy Millar: You You, Me Me. Kerber Art. p. 180. ISBN   9783866782358.
  5. "Judy Millar: The Model World". Te Uru. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  6. Angelika Affentrager-Krichrath in: Neue Zuericher Zeitung, 14 September 2005.
  7. Andrea Hilgenstock, "Jeder Künstler abstrahiert." In: Die Welt, 4 August 2006,
  8. Cf. Brian Butler (ed.), Speculation, Auckland, Zurich: JRP/Ringer, 2007, pp. 62 – 67, p 206
  9. Leonhard Emmerling (ed.), IS/NZ (Ingólfur Arnarsson, Stephen Bambury, Tumi Magnússon, Judy Millar), with an interview by Susanne Kaeppele, Heidelberg, Kehrer Publisher, 2005, ISBN   978-3-936636-47-5 http://www.artbooksheidelberg.com/html/detail/de/isnz-978-3-936636-47-5.html
  10. Lopdell House Gallery (ed.), Keeping You You Keeping Me Me, ISBN   0-9582284-3-4
  11. CAP Art Limited, Dublin, Ireland (ed.), CAP Collection, Dublin 2005, ISBN   2-88100-052-5, S. 184–187, 347
  12. New Zealand at Venice Biennale 2009 | New Zealand at the Venice Biennale 2009
  13. Rees-Owen, Rose (13 May 2015). "Pop-up book called Swell is a first in New Zealand publishing". The Western Leader. Stuff. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  14. "SWELL – THE ART OF JUDY MILLAR – POP-UP BOOK". Scape Public Art. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  15. "News". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 7 July 2011.

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