I am Home
Millie Mitchell
1–18 August
‘I am home’ contemplates the subconscious influence of architecture and matrilineal relationships on the artist’s identity. Mitchell presents a new suite of drawings and prints depicting a selection of furniture and objects from her childhood home. Acting as both anchors and catalysts for personal memories, the objects provoke contemplation about how each has contributed to her identity and current self.
The central pieces of furniture–a secretaire and sewing table–are symbolic of matrilineal tropes, domestic labour, and intergenerational connection. They are vessels for the transference of knowledge, stories and skills.
Labour manifests as care through the exchange of recipes, rituals of tea and odes to the kitchen as a site of bonding. Functional and decorative items share value, equally inspiring memory and perpetuating learned habits.
The slow processes of drawing and printmaking are a methodology of ‘soul-work’, providing a meditative state for the artist to interrogate the personal significance these objects and architectures hold. Ex situ, the objects become void of their contexts and are instead rooted by the memories they embody, traversing multiple temporalities; across memories, places and people.
Please join us for a drink to celebrate the opening of I Am Home on Friday 2 August (6–8PM)
Millie Mitchell is an emerging Sydney-based artist currently working across lands of the Eora Nation. In 2019, she completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) at UNSW Art & Design, where she now works as a Printmaking Technical Officer and Academic. Mitchell has been exhibiting since 2017, and her recent solo exhibitions include ‘Framed’ (2022) at Little Yellow Studio Collective, Sydney, and ‘happy prints’ (2021) at White Rhino Artspace, Sydney. Most recently she exhibited in ‘Artist as Archivist’ (2024), a group show at Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf, Sydney. Mitchell is a regular finalist in awards and prizes, such as the Small Works Prize (2023), Lloyd Rees Memorial Youth Art Awards (2021), Fisher’s Ghost Art Award (2020 & 2018), and The Little Things Art Prize (2020). Mitchell has participated in residencies with Cork Printmakers, Ireland (2020), and North Sydney Council (2023-2024), and is currently an artist-in-residence at Gallery Lane Cove + Creative Studios (2024-2025). Mitchell is also a Co-founder, Curator and Operations Coordinator for More Than Reproduction, an artist-run initiative promoting women in printmaking.
