Emerging Contemporaries
Emerging Contemporaries 4 February - 20 March 2021 Akka Ballenger | Mika Benesh | Millie Black | Maitlan Brown | Ned Collins | Lea Durie | Annalise Fredericks | Daniel Leone | Christine Little | David Liu | Denni Maroudas | Olinda Narayanan | Bling Yiu | Jonathon Zalakos Emerging Contemporaries is the Craft ACT National Award Exhibition for early-career artists. This exhibition plays a pivotal role in supporting and transitioning artists into professional practice and placing Australian artists in view of the national cultural collecting institutions, business and industry, and audience. We're always looking for new talent to nurture and add to our Craft ACT community. We have an Emerging Contemporaries Award that we give to emerging talent from a number of sources: Sturt School for Wood, Canberra Potters Society, Canberra Institute of Technology, University of Canberra, the ANU School of Art + Design, University of New South Wales and the CAPO Craft ACT Emerging Artist award.
Emerging Contemporaries
4 February - 20 March 2021
Akka Ballenger | Mika Benesh | Millie Black | Maitlan Brown | Ned Collins | Lea Durie | Annalise Fredericks | Daniel Leone | Christine Little | David Liu | Denni Maroudas | Olinda Narayanan | Bling Yiu | Jonathon Zalakos
Emerging Contemporaries is the Craft ACT National Award Exhibition for early-career artists. This exhibition plays a pivotal role in supporting and transitioning artists into professional practice and placing Australian artists in view of the national cultural collecting institutions, business and industry, and audience.
We're always looking for new talent to nurture and add to our Craft ACT community. We have an Emerging Contemporaries Award that we give to emerging talent from a number of sources: Sturt School for Wood, Canberra Potters Society, Canberra Institute of Technology, University of Canberra, the ANU School of Art + Design, University of New South Wales and the CAPO Craft ACT Emerging Artist award.
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Millie Black<br />
ANU School of Art + Design<br />
Artist statement<br />
Grounding Atmospheres tracks the<br />
conscious and subconscious marks<br />
of the human in nature. In my practice,<br />
I explore the dualisms that detach the<br />
human from nature brought about by the<br />
cultural construct of the ‘Wilderness’ ideal.<br />
To dissolve this figure-ground separation<br />
that has outlined the tradition of Western<br />
landscape painting, I explore the<br />
purpose of ground and air in connecting<br />
ourselves to the environment by using<br />
earth pigments and plant dyes from<br />
the landscape I work with. Grounding<br />
Atmospheres removes an anthropocentric<br />
view of the land and explores the deep<br />
layers of the air and the ground by bringing<br />
an awareness to our breathing and<br />
dependence on nature. This is presented<br />
through the unwoven negative space<br />
and the supple nature of the cloth and<br />
fibres. In this, I hope to promote a greater<br />
awareness of the air and the importance<br />
of seeing ourselves as part of nature.<br />
Biography<br />
Millie Black is a painter and textile artist<br />
currently living and working on Ngunnawal<br />
Country. Her working process involves<br />
bush walking and painting in oil and<br />
watercolour with organic pigments from<br />
the environment she is in. More recently<br />
Black has incorporated weaving into<br />
her painting practice, experimenting<br />
with painted paper that she spins into<br />
thread prior to weaving. Black’s work<br />
aims to provide a connection to the<br />
natural environment and make aware our<br />
dependence on and roll in it. Her current<br />
practice-led research explores the breath<br />
as this connection and the importance<br />
of the air in weaving together human and<br />
nature.<br />
Image: Of Solitude (detail), 2021, watercolour on wool<br />
warp, 25 x 37 cm. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.<br />
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