Jane Millar
Toni Heath Gallery is delighted to present Particular Places, an exhibition of the gorgeous work of Jane Millar.
Jane Millar’s paintings refer to photographs of territories, and in the case of the Tornado series, to photographs of an instant, a colluding between energy, matter and light. Some of the photographic images have been found, sent or given, some she has made herself, but in all cases these images speak of a territory of the imagination, a place where she searches for that which is lost and tries to glimpse that which is hardly remembered.
Millar works across the surface of the images with stitched beads and nail tips, puncturing and threading the surface, allowing the image’s surface to become a skin. The thread and beads focus the image, masking what lies underneath.
These images also search back in time, to a just remembered moment of a magical, pre-language time, when the world was one of glittery fascination, a world of emotional and physical sensation.
Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1989, Jane Millar has exhibited extensively throughout the UK and has work in many corporate and private collections in the UK, USA, Europe & Japan.
Jane Millar was born in Cardiff in 1964 and currently lives and works in London.
Solo Exhibitions
2006 Particular Places, Toni Heath Gallery, London
1996 Atrium, Cork Street, London
1994 England & Co, London
1992 Omphalos Arts, Sandwich, Kent
Selected Group Exhibitions
2005 Menier Chocolate Factory, London
2005 LAND2, Beyond Landscape, RWA, Bristol
2004 LAND2, Beyond Landscape, Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax
2004 BRIXTON ARTISTS, 198 Gallery, London
2003 England & Co, London
2003 Artbridge 2003, Sheridan Russell Gallery, London
2002 Urban Art, London
2002 Five Artists, England & Co, London
2000 The Freud Museum, London
2000 291 Gallery, London
1998 Ground, Catalyst Arts, Belfast
1997 Art ’97, England & Co, Business Design Centre, London
1997 England & Co, London
1996 Art ’96, England & Co, Business Design Centre, London
1996 England & Co, London
1996 152D Brick Lane, London
1995 DAD, Gasworks, London
1995 New Terrain, Stansell Gallery, Taunton
1995 Art ’95, England & Co, Business Design Centre, London
1995 Slaughterhouse Gallery, London
1995 England & Co, London
1995 Atrium Gallery, Cork Street, London
1994 Whitechapel Open, London
1992 63 Union Street, London
1992 Bloom, European Outposts, London
1992 Utopias, Gallery Dagmar, London
1992 East Meets West, Smiths Gallery, London
1990 England & Co, London
1990 Mertz Contemporary Art, London
1990 Portobello Open, Tabernacle Gallery, London
1990 Two Painters, St Georges Church, London
1990 Artlink Gallery, Stockport
1989 Guardian Newspaper Gallery Exhibition, Victoria Rooms, Bristol
1989 Whitechapel Open, London
1985 The Showroom, London
Commissions & Collections
Paintings in Hospitals collection, 5 works
Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, 30 works
University of West England, Bristol
Publications
Curator & Editor of FOLD: The Newspaper of the Unconscious”, supported by and launched at The Freud Museum, London, February 2000
2004 Bridges, a LAND2 publication
2003 Wallpaper Magazine, May edition
1999 a place between, article on FOLD, Public Art Journal, Volume 1, No 2, Edited by Jane Rendall
1998 CIRCA: Magazine of Contemporary Art in Ireland, Review of work shown in “Ground”, Catalyst Arts, Belfast
1997 A Consequential Coastline, Edited by Dr Paul Gough
1997 UWE Publication, Bristol, Collaborative artists book
1995 Jane Millar – Recent Work”, solo show catalogue, England & Co
1995 New Terrain, UWE Publication, Bristol
Education
MA Painting (Tapestry), Royal College of Art, London
BA Fine Art, Canterbury College of Art