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25.06.08 I Judy Millar to represent NZ at Venice Biennale 2009
Congratulations to gallery artist Judy Millar who has been chosen to represent New Zealand at the Venice Biennale in July 2009. Creative New Zealand's eight member selection panel of Alastair Carruthers (CNZ), Jenny May (CNZ), Jonathan Mane-Wheoki (Te Papa), Greg Burke (gallery director), Jenny Gibbs (art collector), Jenny Harper (gallery director), Robert Jahnke (artist), and Caroline Vercoe (Auckland University) recently selected Judy Millar and Francis Upritchard to go to Venice. The Venice Biennale is the oldest, and remains the most important, visual arts biennial event to showcase contemporary art. The Dominion post reported today that Creative NZ arts council chairman Alastair Carruthers described Judy Millar as "one of New Zealand's most experienced abstractionists" and her project for Venice as "strong, bold and exciting". Judy will be accompanied by curator Leonhard Emmerling as part of the artist/curator team.
For more information http://www.creativenz.govt.nz/node/5984
12.03.08 Judy Millar in Art New Zealand Magazine
The vibrant cover of the latest issue of Art New Zealand features a detail of a painting by gallery artist Judy Millar. Inside writer/curator Justin Paton engages Millar in a frank interview that considers the artist's thoughts on the nature and physicality of her practice.
“For me a painting is a highly paradoxical object. It’s able to point to things in the world, through the power of illusion. It’s also physically real. That’s the key paradox; it carries many more. And you’re able to lay these all these elements down on a single surface. To me that’s the fascination of painting.”
The Autumn issue of Art New Zealand is currently in selected book stores nation wide.
Judy Millar: Inaugural McCahon Arts Residency
Gow Langsford Gallery would like to congratulate Judy Millar in her selection for the inaugural McCahon House Arts Residency. Millar will be the first artist to live and work in the new, purpose built Pete Bossley designed house and studio on the site adjacent to the restored house which Colin McCahon lived in from 1953-60. Millar will take up the residency from December 2006 - February 2007, and exhibit at Gow Langsford Gallery in late February 2007.