Jo Milne
Jo Milne (Edinburgh, 1966) studied Fine Art at Edinburgh
College of Art and Edinburgh University, before going
on to complete an MA in Printmaking at Camberwell School
of Art in London. In 1993 she moved to Barcelona, where
she is represented by Galeria Trama, with whom she has
had several solo shows as well as showing in fairs such
as ARCO (Madrid) and Art Santander. She has exhibited
widely in group and solo shows in Europe and the US (Celestographs,
Metro 4, Basel, Between Two Worlds Widener Gallery, Hartford,
USA) and has lectured in USA, Germany, Spain and the
UK. She has been awarded various prizes such as the Elizabeth
Greenshields Award, Premio de Pintura de la Ciutat de
Igualada and has taken part in several residencies including
the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin and the Museu
d’Art de Sabadell, Spain. Her work is in public
collections in both Spain and the UK for example, La
Caixa, Museu d’Art de Sabadell and the Warwick Arts Trust.
Statement
My work has revolved in the last few years around ideas
of formulaic sequencing and the hidden frameworks within
language and code and specfically in how these sequences
reappear in music, scientific languages and in the information
coding that dominates our lives. The use of simple sequences
and reptition in the drawings and paintings sets up images
that seem to echo; fractile imaging, microscopic photography
and chromography, appearing as such to reaffirmc their
supposed truth. However the sense of a tumbling world,
three dimensional, yet abstract and fragile recur to the
ideas of Zygmunt Bauman who in Liquid
Society talks of
how there are no longer any restrictions or frontiers to
guide us within our constantly changing society. By using
paint and simple drawing techniques my aim is to question
the veracity of photographic imaging and scientific parlance
and to suggest an image of doubt that makes us question
how we really perceive and understand the world.
Image 1
A piece of nucleic acid surrounded by good news. 2008. Graphite on paper. 112 × 150 cm.
Image 2
Beyond Pure Parasystole. 2006. Acrylic on canvas. 180 ×180
cm.
Image 3
Control shift to stablise 2007. Graphite on paper. 50 × 70 cm.
Image 4
Essentially compact schemes for unsteady incomprehensible flow. 2008. Acrylic on wood. Dimensions variable.
Image 5
Essentially compact schemes for unsteady incomprehensible flow Appendix VIII. 2008.
Image 6
Essentially compact schemes for unsteady incomprehensible flow Appendix XII. 2008.
Image 7
Interstellar eggs let loose on crunchy
bubbles. 2006. 100 × 100 cm. Acrylic on canvas.
Image 8
Por un tiempo liquido 2008. Acrylic on canvas. 120 × 130 cm.
Image 9
Splitting atoms to find a thread of logic. 2007. Graphite on paper. 150 × 220 cm.
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