Dr Clare Milledge
2007-2013
Doctor of Philosophy, The Artist Shaman and “the Gift-of-Sight”, Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney, Sydney
Supervisors:Associate Professor Ann Elias and Matthys Gerber
2008 PhD candidate, Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney/ Universität der Künste, Berlin Supervisors:
Supervisors: Associate Professor Ann Elias and Matthys Gerber/Lothar Baumgarten
2006
Bachelor of Visual Arts (Painting), Honours 1, Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney, Sydney and Statens Kunst Akademi, Oslo
Supervisors: Matthys Gerber and Gunter Reski
2004-2005
Bachelor of Visual Arts (Painting), Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney, Sydney
1999
Bachelor of Visual Arts (Foundation), The College of Fine Arts, The University of New South Wales, Sydney
Milledge lives and works between the lands of the Arakwal and Widjabul Wia-bal people of theBundjalung Nation (Northern NSW) and the lands of the Garigal, Bidjigal and Gadigal people of the Eora Nation (Warrang/Sydney). She is a Senior Lecturer at UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture and is represented by STATION gallery.
Milledge's work re-examines contemporary environments with a focus on our engagement with ecology through art, in particular through the use of the historical figure of the artist-shaman. Working with fieldwork as her primary methodology she collects, re-organises, transformsand re-presentsrecordings, information and material gathered on ecological surveys, daily experiences and site visits.Her work takes the form of public installation environments that variouslyincorporate glass paintings, textile works, poetry, costumes, sets, collaborative experimental sound and performance.
Milledge completed her Doctor of Philosophy at Sydney College of the Arts, the University of Sydney in 2013. Part of her candidacy (2008) was spent at the Universität der Künste, Berlin. She completed her Honours year (also administered by Sydney College of the Arts) at the Statenskunst Akademi in Oslo (2006) and maintains an active engagement with Norwegian contemporary art.
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2021
Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups, Australia Council for the Arts
2018
Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups, Australia Council for the Arts
2016
ArtsNSW Support Grant
Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups, Australia Council for the Arts
2015
ArtsNSW Support Grant
Australian Artist’s Grant, NAVA
ArtStart Grant, Australia Council for the Arts
2014
NSW Artist’s Grant, ArtsNSW grant administered by NAVA
2010
New Work Grant for Emerging Visual Artists, Australia Council for the Arts
2008
Janet Holmes à Court Artists Grant, NAVA
Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Artists Exchange Scholarship, Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney (Berlin)
2006
Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Artists Exchange Scholarship, Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney(Oslo)
2007-2010 University Postgraduate Award, Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney, Sydney Milledge’s research output is held in the collections of: Artbank, Sydney Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Ten Cubed, Melbourne |
Recent career highlights include:
The installationImbás: a well at the bottom of the seain the23rd Biennale of Sydney: rīvus(2022) ; an installation of glass paintings and wood sculpture for the group showStill Life,curated by JacquelineDoughty at Buxton Contemporary (2022); inclusion of glass paintings in theNGV Triennial(2020); an installation of glass paintings, recycled textile works, and a collaborative sound performance inSecond Sight: Witchcraft, Ritual, Power, University of Queensland Art Museum (2019); a solo performance and an installation for the group exhibitionRemedial Worksat PICA, Perth; a solo performanceStrigiformes: Binocular, Binaural,curated by Stina Högkvist for Museet for Samtidskunst, Nasjonalmuseet (Museum for Contemporary Art, National Museum of Norway); a large commissioned glass work forWhat Remains, curated by Silja Leifsdottir at Fotogalleriet, Oslo; (all 2017); glass paintings inMagic Object, The Adelaide Biennial, curated by Lisa Slade; the expansive installationäwith Mikala Dwyer and Nick Dorey, curated by Alexie-Glass Kantor and Talia Linz for Artspace, Sydney (both 2016) and the touring group exhibitionErewhoncurated by Vikki McInnes, Margaret Lawrence gallery (2016-2018).
She has held numerous solo exhibitions at commercial galleries, primarily STATION Gallery and TheCommercial Gallery, andexhibited at the University of Technology Sydney, Sydney College of the Arts,Griffith University Art Gallery andnumerous other University Galleries.
Milledge was three times a finalist in the Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship (2007, 2008, 2010) and three times a finalist in the Fauvette Loureiro Travelling Art Scholarship Finalists Exhibition (2016, 2017, 2020). She was one of seven artists awarded an Inaugural Artspace 1 year studio (2015) and held a studio residency at Carriageworks in 2021. Her work is held in the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, Buxton Contemporary, Monash University Museum of Art, Ten Cubed and Artbank.
Selected bibliography. 2020 Tom Melick, "Living Annotations (for Clare Milledge)", NGV Artjournal
2019 Amelia Wallin, “Revisiting colour problems: Emily Vanderpoel, Hilma af Klint, Becca Albee, Clare Milledge”, Artlink Issue 39:1 pp 30-35 (feature article) Sophie Rose, “Second Sight: Witchcraft, Ritual, Power”, Un Projects (exhibition review)
2018 Anna Dunnill, “Sacks of wind: a rock harder than rock”, Artguide (exhibition preview) Ned Reilly, “Vegesingularity”, Art + Australia, 2018. Issue Three (54.2): Unnaturalism pp 54-63
2017 Anna Dunnill, “Remedial Works,” Runway Experimental Arts (exhibition review) Andreas Breivik and Victoria Duffee, “Clare Milledge at the Museum for Contemporary Art,” Vi ser på Kunst, (performance review) Museum, Issue 7 “Factory” 2016 Dr Astrid Lorange, “Reading Paintings and Poetry,” Blackbox Manifold, Issue 16 (journal article) Dr Marian Tubbs, Oberon #2, p 50-54 (journal article) Dr Astrid Lorange, Skara Thynge: Travelling Stock Reserves, The Commercial Gallery, Sydney (exhibition text) Craig Judd, “This Thing,” Magic Object: Adelaide Biennial, (biennial catalogue) Sebastian Goldspink, “Elements: The Shaman,” Magic Object: Adelaide Biennial, (biennial catalogue) Teri Hoskin, “2016 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Magic Object,” April 1 2016, Artlink (biennial review) Jane Llewellyn, “Adelaide Biennial 2016: Where the Magic Happens.” Jan 29 2016, The Adelaide Review (biennial review) Craig Judd, “The Mnemonic Mirror,” Artlink, (exhibition review) John Neylon, “Review: 2016 Adelaide Biennial is Simply Ѳ,” The Adelaide Review, (biennial review) Vikki McInnes, “Dark Pasts, Dark Presents: The Originary Nowhere,” in Erewhon, Margaret Lawrence Gallery and touring with NETSVIC (exhibition catalogue) Molly McPhee, “Stigma: The Work of the Straightener,” in Erewhon in Erewhon, Margaret Lawrence Gallery and touring with NETSVIC (exhibition catalogue) 2015 Tom Melick, Katie Milton, “Outer Body/ Outer Mind,” Runway - Australian Experimental Art, Issue 27: Outside (journal article) Dan Rule, “Our pick of what’s showing in galleries around town,” The Sydney Morning Herald online October 9 2015 (article) Neha Kale, Vault Magazine, July 2015, Issue 10, pp 18-19 (journal feature article) 2014 Tom Melick, Theoretical Regression: A Warm Sheen Against Received Ideas, The Commercial Gallery, Sydney (exhibition text) Kyla McFarlane, “The Suppository of All Wisdom,” Altus Duel: Total Environment, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne (exhibition catalogue) 2013 Isobel Parker Phillip, UN Projects, Issue 7.1 p 19 (exhibition review) 2012 Catherine Bennetts-Cash, “Un-Acclimatised,” Monash University Museum of Art, (exhibition catalogue) 2011 Margaret Farmer, “Bad Angle,” Artlink Magazine, Vol. 31, #3 p.89 (exhibition review) Anne Ferran, “On Abjection and Love,” The Stain, Verge Gallery, The University of Sydney (exhibition catalogue) |
My Research Supervision
Aulia Ibrahim Yeru (PhD) joint with Associate Professor Felicity Fenner, "Bentang Sungai | Riverscape: ArtandEcology asSpatial Practice."
Felix Cehak (PhD) joint with Dr Izabela Pluta, "Birdsong in the Australian Rainforest: Natural History in Contemporary Art Practice. How can the intersection of contemporary art and folk conservation practices communicate ecological knowledge, with a specific focus on the Albert's Lyrebird."
Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris (PhD), secondary with Associate Professor Felicity Fenner, "The Hydrocene: Curatorial theory of the confluence of art, water and the climate crisis in eco-aesthetics."
Jacqui Driver (MFA), joint with Professor Jill Bennett, "The Mothering Thicket: Investigating the Impact of Trans-generational Trauma through Installation Based Print Practice."
Previous Supervisions:
Megan Hanson (MFA) joint with Debra Phillips, "‘I' am not one: co-producing the nomadic subject at the intersection of art and fashion".
Genevieve Reynolds (MFA) joint with Dr Grant Stevens, "Godflesh: The Impact of Digital Image Technologies and Interfaces on Representations of Space in Contemporary Painting".
Min Wong (MFA) joint with Dr Grant Stevens, "Revisiting esoteric traditions and practices through contemporary sculptural practice".
Jana Hawkins-Andersen (MFA) joint with Dr Lindsay Kelley
Lisa Sammut (MFA) joint with Dr Tim Gregory