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May 2010 / Judy Millar in Berlin
Judy Millar's exhibition A Better Life is now showing at Hamish Morrison Galerie in Berlin.
Following on from her recent installations Giraffe-Bottle-Gun at La Maddelena in Venice and New Works at Gow Langsford, Millar continues to examine the enigmatic relationship between painting and the world that it seeks to both represent and form a part of.
"Millar's installation, then, is not just an object that we are asked to quietly inspect. Demanding, playful, and sometimes outright confrontational, it pushes and pulls us towards new experiential discoveries. In doing so, it holds the promise of a better life; an optimism about our experience of the world around us, and the vital, human role that art plays within it." (source: Hamish Morrison Gallery website 06.05.2010)
A Better Life runs through June 5. 
February 2010 I Judy Millar at Te Papa
New Zealanders have the chance to see works from Judy Millars exhibition Venice Biennale exhibition Giraffe-Bottle-Gun at Te Papa. New Zealand at the Venice Biennale opens to the public on the 26th of this month and includes works from by Millar and Francis Upritchard. For more information see Te Papas website.
November 2009 I Judy Millar announced as New York residency recipient
Congratulations to Judy Millar who has been awarded the Creative New Zealand New York Residency. Hosted by the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) Judy will be in New York February through next May year. For more information on the program see Creative New Zealand's press release here.
November 2009 I Two new publications on Judy Millar
Two new publications on Judy Millar are launched this month in New Zealand. Both published by Kerber Art, Germany, You You Me Me (RRP $59.95) is an artists' monograph covering Millar's career to date and Giraffe-Bottle-Gun ($19.95) documents her recent exhibition of the same title at the 2009 Venice Biennale. For further details and to purchase see our publications page.
November 2009 I Judy Millar in Metro Magazine
Frances Morton writes about Judy Millar is the current issue of Metro Magazine. On sale now.
June 2009 I Judy Millar at Art Basel 2009
New works by Judy Millar were exhibited at Galerie Mark Muller's stand at Art Basel 2009 - the world's premier international art fair for Modern and contemporary works. The fair featured over 300 exhibitors from around the world and attracted an astonishing 61,000 people.
June 2009 I Judy Millar at Venice Biennale
Gow Langsford Gallery congratulates Judy Millar, as of of two New Zealand representatives at the Venice Biennale 2009. See images of and information on her exhibition Giraffe Bottle Gun here. Giraffe Bottle Gun is on at La Maddalena, Venice, 7 June - 22 November 2009.
April 2009 I Judy Millar Venice Biennale update
The venue for Judy Millars Venice Biennale exhibition has been confirmed. Millar will exhibit in a La Maddalena, a Neo-Classical church unique in Venice due to its hexagonal floor plan.
A 170 page book Judy Millar: You You, Me Me covering work form 1982-2009 will be published by German art book publisher Kerber to coincide with the opening of her Venice exhibition in June, it contains essays by Leonhard Emmerling, Anthony Byrt and an interview with Justin Paton. This will be followed with a smaller publication containing documentation of the Venice installation Giraffe-Bottle-Gun with an essay by Jennifer Gross curator of Yale University Gallery.
Australian art magazine Artist Profile will feature Millars work and the build up towards the Venice exhibition in their Autumn Edition due out on April 15th.
April 2009 I Judy Millar in Artist Profile Magazine
Soon to be on bookstands is issue 7 of Australian art magazine, Artist Profile. Featuring on the cover and with an eight page interview is gallery artist and Venice Biennale co-representative Judy Millar, who talks to interviewer Carole Shepheard about her project for the Biennale Giraffe Bottle-Gun. Since the article has gone to press Millar's venue has changed from the Chiesa di Sant'Antonin to La Maddalena situated in the siestere of Cannaregio. The interview however highlights the challenges Millar has had to face in terms of reconciling her installation with various architectural sites and the intricacies of their physical spatial dynamics.
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. Its able to point to things in the world, through the power of illusion. Its also physically real. Thats the key paradox; it carries many more. And youre able to lay these all these elements down on a single surface. To me thats 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.
Judy Millar exhibits in Telecom Prospect 2007: New Art New Zealand
This years Telecom Prospect at the City Gallery, Wellington, is curated by Senior Curator Heather Gailbraith. The exhibition runs from the 11 February - 29 April 2007. For more information go to the City Gallery.