Clare Milledge has cultivated a transdisciplinary, materially brave creative language across the past two decades that moves effortlessly between text-based, abstract and figurative compositions and soundscapes. Hers is an ethno-botanical lens that tangles folklore, art history, magic, contemporary culture and the environmental sciences to re-posture ancient myths. In parallel she creates new narratives that probe the nature-human dichotomy and imagine instead more mutable, viscous bonds.
complex notophyll vine forest: ground proof is a significant survey of Milledge’s practice across the past two decades and is her first major exhibition on Bundjalung Country, the region where she grew up. The exhibition sweeps across three large galleries, permeating the connecting walkways and spaces in-between.
This exhibition has been assisted by STATION, and is accompanied by a publication titled close reader: complex notophyll vine forest thanks to the generous support of the Gordon Darling Foundation.
