Judy Millar

Judy Millar (born Penelope Millar 1957) is a New Zealand artist, who lives in Auckland and Berlin, Germany.

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Early Life

Judy Millar was born to an English mother and New Zealand father in Auckland, New Zealand. Her mother suffered from acute depression throughout her life which lead to an emotionally disrupted childhood for Judy and her three sisters. While being recognised as a gifted student, early in her teens Judy was diagnosed as having emotional and communication difficulties and it was suggested she be given extra tuition in art. Against her families wishes she eventually became a student at the Elam School of Fine Arts, The University of Auckland. While at university she became involved in the unlikely mix of the Auckland Punk Rock scene and Anthroposophy. In 1985 she opened the acclaimed Five Columns Restaurant which was noted for it's highly experimental cuisine and performance culture. In 1988 she returned to the University of Auckland to study Italian feminist writing and won an Italian Government Scholarship for Postgraduate study in Italy.

Education

Judy Millar received a BFA in 1980 and a MFA from Auckland University's Elam School of Fine Arts in 1983. As recipient of a Scholarship from the Italian Government in 1990, she spent a year in Turin, Italy.

Awards

Exhibitions

Millar has participated in numerous group exhibitions in both New Zealand and Europe and found critical acclaim in the international press. Her painterly style was described as "energetic and overwhelmig",[3] and Andrea Hilgenstock calls her paintings "spectacular".[4] Further references can be found in recent publications on New Zealand art. [5][6][7] [8]

Her works can be found in the collections of the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Dunedin Public Art Gallery and the Auckland Art Gallery.

She represented New Zealand at the 53rd Venice Biennial in 2009.[9]

In 2011 she is again part of the Venice Biennale in the Collateral Event Personal Structures in Palazzo Bembo.[10]

Current

Millar is represented by Gow Langsford Gallery in Auckland, Gallery Mark Müller in Zurich and Hamish Morrison Gallery in Berlin.

In April 2012 Millar will open a major solo project at Museum gegenstandsfreier Kunst, Otterndorf, Germany.

References

  1. ^ Wallace Arts Trust : home
  2. ^ McCahon - McCahon Arts Residency - The Residency and how to apply
  3. ^ Angelika Affentrager-Krichrath in: Neue Zuericher Zeitung, September 14, 2005.
  4. ^ Andrea Hilgenstock, "Jeder Künstler abstrahiert." In: Die Welt, August 4, 2006, [1]
  5. ^ Cf. Brian Butler (ed.), Speculation, Auckland, Zurich: JRP/Ringer, 2007, pp. 62 - 67, p 206
  6. ^ Leonhard Emmerling (ed.), IS/NZ (Ingólfur Arnarsson, Stephen Bambury, Tumi Magnússon, Judy Millar) , with an interview by Susanne Kaeppele, Heidelberg, Kehrer Publisher, 2005, ISBN 978-3-936636-47-5 http://www.artbooksheidelberg.com/html/detail/de/isnz-978-3-936636-47-5.html
  7. ^ Lopdell House Gallery (ed.), Keeping You You Keeping Me Me, ISBN 0-9582284-3-4
  8. ^ CAP Art Limited, Dublin, Ireland (ed.), CAP Collection, Dublin 2005, ISBN 2-88100-052-5, S. 184-187, 347
  9. ^ New Zealand at Venice Biennale 2009 | New Zealand at the Venice Biennale 2009
  10. ^ http://www.hamishmorrison.com/en/News.html

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