CLARE MILLEDGE
lfp mottled and green: looking for a cleric sib
28 April – 27 May 2023

STATION | SYDNEY

STATION is delighted to present our fifth exhibition with Clare Milledge. Titled lfp mottled and green: looking for a cleric sib, the exhibition loosely weaves together various threads that appear throughout her practice.

Milledge’s works prompt us to reconsider our relationship to objects, materials, nature and language. She invokes an elemental vitality through her index of recurring iconography, including moons and orbs, plants and roots, owls and fungi, shape-shifters and familiars, and sacred geometry. Fieldwork and research permeate her subjects, and she applies poetic techniques, such as doubling and mirroring.

This imagery is rendered in abstracted paintings using the Byzantine technique hinterglasmalarei, which involves the application (and removal) of oil paint on the reverse side of glass. Milledge's paintings are visually striking transformations of potent colour and nuanced light that offer quiet moments of illumination and reflection paired with more peculiar dwellings.

Installation Views

Artworks

Clare Milledge
S: gel radiance 2023
oil on toughened glass, reclaimed timber frame (Agathis robusta)
130.0 × 130.0 cm

Clare Milledge
Badb: bro im glitched 2023
oil on toughened glass, reclaimed timber frame (Agathis robusta)
120.0 × 120.0 cm

Clare Milledge
N: dub deep dark, 2023
oil on toughened glass, reclaimed timber frame (Acacia melanoxylon)
120.0 × 120.0 cm

Clare Milledge
NNE: temen the veil
oil on toughened glass, bronze close-readers
2023

Clare Milledge
SSE: buide flame plague 2023
oil on toughened glass, bronze close-readers
50.0 × 50.0 cm

Clare Milledge
WSW: glas sea colour 2023
oil on toughened glass, bronze close-readers
60.0 × 50.0 cm

Clare Milledge
SSW: uaine shining plants 2023
oil on toughened glass, bronze close-readers
60.0 × 50.0 cm

Clare Milledge
W: odar fresh water 2023
oil on toughened glass, bronze close-readers
60.0 × 43.4 cm

Clare Milledge
hÚath: lets go do not burn 2023
oil on toughened glass, bronze close-readers
60.0 × 40.0 cm

Clare Milledge
ENE: alad dappled, 2023
oil on toughened glass, bronze close-readers
48.0 × 30.8 cm

Clare Milledge
E: corcra noble purple 2023
oil on toughened glass, bronze close-readers
48.0 × 30.8 cm

Clare Milledge
ESE: derg dirty blood 2023
oil on toughened glass, bronze close-readers
48.0 × 30.8 cm

Clare Milledge
WNW: liath grey matter 2023
oil on toughened glass, bronze close-readers
diptych; each panel 60.0 × 40.0 cm