Milli Jannides, ‘The tip of the tongue’ at Hazelhurst Arts Centre

Hazelhurst Arts Centre is delighted to present The tip of the tongue, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Sydney-born artist Milli Jannides.

These ambient oil paintings capture felt sensations, recollections and locales drawn from the artist’s idiosyncratic practice of imagining, reading and note-taking. Lost keys, frayed curtains, snails, squares and scissors slide across the canvas. Hues ranging from the pallid to the vivid and acidulated are deftly brushed and stained to realise absorbing tableaus that leave viewers on the edge of a thought or a memory.

Atmospheres surface, discovered through the dance of painting; the nimble shiftiness of colour, scale and mark. The canvas receives what is to hand, exasperation or inspiration: a drawing, an object, an idea.

A feeling of unease grows as what is reached for remains on the tip of the tongue.

About the artist

Born at the Royal Women’s Hospital in Paddington, Jannides (b.1986) grew up in the dance fringe scene of Cleveland St, Redfern, watching dancers and actors rehearse. She studied art and literature at the University of Auckland (2009) with an exchange to the Glasgow School of Art in 2007. Jannides was a guest in Peter Doig’s class at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf (2010), and in 2013 completed her MFA at Royal College of the Arts in London. Since graduating she has lived and worked in Berlin, Mexico City, Porto, Stockholm and is now based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.

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