May 15, 2025 - June 1, 2025
Eleanor Millard – Sound of the Coast
Artist:
Eleanor Millard
Location:
subiaco
Eleanor Millard's landscapes arrest the speed of life. The furious pace of the everyday stops, gives way to a painted meditation. "I try to paint the stillness of the now, with all it's sound," Millard explains.
Millard's landscapes are personal - yet their power resides in the fact that they hold a universal resonance. She presents paintings that are calm and considered alongside paintings that are unhesitating and visceral. The first group reflects the artist's practice in its most sensitive and process-driven form. Layer upon layer of paint underpins soft compositions, so delicately rendered that one suspects they could dissolve before our eyes. In the second group, the brushstroke is swifter, more urgent. If Millard paints sound, then these works are the crescendo - bursting with raw vibrancy and energy.
Following the artist's sell-out exhibition at Sydney Contemporary in 2022, Millard continues to push her practice, working sensitively and intuitively on paper, creating windows into worlds where imagery takes shape in minimal and abstracted forms.
Millard's landscapes are personal - yet their power resides in the fact that they hold a universal resonance. She presents paintings that are calm and considered alongside paintings that are unhesitating and visceral. The first group reflects the artist's practice in its most sensitive and process-driven form. Layer upon layer of paint underpins soft compositions, so delicately rendered that one suspects they could dissolve before our eyes. In the second group, the brushstroke is swifter, more urgent. If Millard paints sound, then these works are the crescendo - bursting with raw vibrancy and energy.
Following the artist's sell-out exhibition at Sydney Contemporary in 2022, Millard continues to push her practice, working sensitively and intuitively on paper, creating windows into worlds where imagery takes shape in minimal and abstracted forms.
