Dr Clare Milledge
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2007-2013
Doctor of Philosophy, The Artist Shaman and 鈥渢he Gift-of-Sight鈥�, Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney, Sydney听听
Supervisors:听Associate Professor Ann Elias and Matthys Gerber
2008 PhD candidate, Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney/ Universit盲t der K眉nste, Berlin听
Supervisors: Associate Professor Ann Elias and Matthys Gerber/Lothar Baumgarten
2006
Bachelor of Visual Arts (Painting), Honours 1, Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney, Sydney and Statens Kunst Akademi, Oslo听
Supervisors: Matthys Gerber and Gunter Reski
2004-2005
Bachelor of Visual Arts (Painting), Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney, Sydney
1999
Bachelor of Visual Arts (Foundation), The College of Fine Arts, The University of New South Wales, Sydney
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Dr Clare Milledge (b 1977) is a Senior Lecturer and artist, she lives and works in Warrang/Sydney Cove (AU) on unceded Bidjigal and Gadigal Country.
Distinguished for her hinterglasmalerei paintings鈥攁 reverse-glass technique rooted in Byzantine traditions鈥擬illedge engages abstraction, fragmentation, and encryption, creating text-based, geometric and figurative paintings and installations. Using adapted fieldwork methodologies she draws upon and reimagines contemporary environments, cultivating a polymorphic visual language that unsettles conventional structures of knowledge within a shared material lexicon.
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- Publications
- Media
- Grants
- Awards
- Research Activities
- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
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2024听 |
$22,779.80听 |
Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups (application supported by 91色情片 School Seed Funding)听 |
Creative Australia听 |
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2024听 |
$7,433.00听 |
CreateNSW funding听 |
CreateNSW听 |
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2021听 |
$50,000.00听 |
Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups听 |
Creative Australia听 |
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2018听 |
$26,870.00听 |
Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups听 |
Creative Australia听 |
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2017听 |
$5,000.00听 |
Artist Support Round 2听 |
ArtsNSW听 |
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2017听 |
$16,180.00听 |
Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups听 |
Creative Australia听 |
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2015听 |
$5,000.00听 |
Artist Support Round 1听 |
ArtsNSW听 |
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2015听 |
$10,000.00听 |
ArtStart Grant听 |
Creative Australia听 |
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2014听 |
$1,250.00听 |
NSW Artists鈥� Grant Scheme听 |
ArtsNSW听 |
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2010听 |
$10,000.00听 |
New Work Grant for Emerging Visual Artists听 |
Creative Australia听 |
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2007-2010听听 University Postgraduate Award, Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney, Sydney 听 听 听 |
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Significant exhibitions include: Knowing Otherwise, Monash University Museum of Art (2026); complex notophyll vine-forest: ground-proof, Lismore Regional Gallery (2025); From the Other Side, ACCA (2023); Living Patterns: Contemporary Australian Abstraction, QAGOMA (2023); Maluw Adhil Urngu Padanu Mamuy Moesik, IMA, Meanjin/Brisbane (2023); Still Life, Buxton Contemporary (2022); Second Sight: Witchcraft, Ritual, Power, UQ Art Museum (2019); Remedial Works, PICA (2017); Strigiformes: Binocular, Binaural, Museet for Samtidskunst, Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo, NO (2017); What Remains, Fotogalleriet, Oslo, NO (2017); and 顿盲尘尘别谤蝉肠丑濒补蹿, Artspace (2016).听
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Milledge exhibited in the 23rd Biennale of Sydney: r墨vus (2022); the NGV Triennial (2020); and Magic Object, Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art (2016).听
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She was a four-time finalist in the Fauvette Loureiro Travelling Art Scholarship (2016, 2017, 2020, 2023) and a three-time finalist in the Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship (2007, 2008, 2010). Her work is held in major collections including the NGV, Buxton Contemporary, Monash University Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, and Artbank.听
She has undertaken residencies at Carriageworks, Sydney (2021), Artspace, Sydney (2015),听 Cove Park, Scotland (2025).听
2024
Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris;听; pp.听105听鈥撎�128
Manch谩n Magan;听s. catalogue essay
Misong Kim;听; Ocula in collaboration with Melbourne Art Foundation
Vanessa Francesca;听; Artshub
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2023
Josephine Mead;听, Artguide, feature
ACCA,听, catalogue听
2022
Emma Pinsent;听; BAM, feature,听pp. 52听鈥撎�55听
Anabelle Lacroix;听;听Art Monthly Australasia, feature,听pp. 72听鈥撎�79
Biennale of Sydney,听听catalogue
Miriam Cosic,听听The Guardian Australia, March
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2020
Tom Melick,听;听NGV Triennial, catalogue: Pt 2 Illuminations,听pp. 136听鈥撎�149
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2019
Amelia Wallin;听;听Artlink:听Local Colour;听Issue 39:1 | March 2019听pp. 30听鈥撎�35
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2018
Anna Dunnill,听, exhibition preview, Art Guide Australia, December 2018
Ned Reilly,听听Art + Australia, issue 3, (54.2): Unnaturalism, May 2018, pp. 54 鈥� 63
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2017
Anna Dunnill,听, exhibition review, Runway Experimental Arts
Andreas Breivik and Victoria Duffee, 鈥楥lare Milledge at the Museum for Contemporary Art鈥�, performance review, Vi ser p氓 Kunst
鈥楽ymposium: Clare Milledge鈥�, Museum, Issue 7: Factory
Mandy Campbell;听; The University of Sydney News
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2016
Astrid Lorange,听, Blackbox Manifold, Issue 16
Astrid Lorange,听听exhibition text for听Skara Thynge: Travelling Stock Reserves, The Commercial Gallery, Sydney
Magic Object: Adelaide Biennial, exhibition catalogue
Molly McPhee;听;听exhibition catalogue for Erewhon
Vikki McInnes;听; exhibition catalogue for Erewhon
Marian Tubbs,听, Oberon, vol. 2, pp. 50 鈥� 54
Craig Judd, 鈥楾his Thing鈥�, catalogue essay, Magic Object: Adelaide Biennial听
Sebastian Goldspink, 鈥楨lements: The Shaman鈥�, catalogue essay, Magic Object: Adelaide Biennial
Craig Judd, 鈥楾he Mnemonic Mirror鈥�, Artlink, exhibition review, 3 June 2016
Jane Llewellyn;听; The Adelaide Review
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2015
Tom Melick,听, unpublished text for听Behavioral Modernity, Vienna
Neha Kale,听,听Vault Magazine, July 2015, Issue 10, pp. 18听鈥撎�19
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2014
Tom Melick,听, exhibition text for听Theoretical Regression: A Warm Sheen Against Received Ideas, The Commercial Gallery, Sydney
Kyla McFarlane,听The Suppository of All Wisdom, Altus Duel: Total Environment, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne;听exhibition catalogue essay
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2013
Isobel Parker Phillip, Clare Milledge, Motivated Reasoning: Strategic, Tactical, Operational, The Commercial Gallery, 22 March 鈥� 13 April 2013, review, UN Projects, Issue 7.1 p. 19
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2012
Catherine Bennetts-Cash,听Un-Acclimatised, exhibition catalogue, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
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2011
Margaret Farmer,听Bad Angle, review, Artlink Magazine, Vol. 31, #3 p. 89
Anne Ferran,听On Abjection and Love, exhibition catalogue for听The Stain, Verge Gallery, The University of Sydney, Sydney
The Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship, exhibition catalogue, Artspace, Sydney
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2009
Ian Houston-Shadwell,听Art is not Epistemology, exhibition catalogue,听The Last Visible Dog, Grantpirrie, Sydney
Biljana Jancic, In The Manner Of Excess,听exhibition catalogue,听From the Scrapheap of False Metaphors and Other Draft Deceits,听Gallery 9, Sydney
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2008
The Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship, exhibition catalogue, Artspace, Sydney
Alison Kubler,听As Black as Stone, exh. cat.听Neo Goth: Back in Black, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
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2006
Verk/Work, exh. cat., Office of Contemporary Art Norway and Nordisk Kulturfond
My Research Supervision
Current
Benita Newberry Laylim (MFA) primary with secondary Di Baker Smith听
Elaine Su-Hui Chew (MFA) joint with Di Baker Smith
Remy Faint (MFA) secondary with primary Felicity Fenner
Fiona Macpherson (MFA) joint with Tim Gregory
Felix Cehak (PhD) joint with Dr Izabela Pluta, "Birdsong in the Australian Rainforest: Natural History in Contemporary Art Practice. How can the intersection of contemporary art and folk conservation practices communicate ecological knowledge, with a specific focus on the Albert's Lyrebird."
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Previous Supervisions:
Anthea Caddy (PhD) secondary with primary Caleb Kelly
Aulia Ibrahim Yeru (PhD) joint with Associate Professor Felicity Fenner, "Bentang Sungai | Riverscape: Art听and听Ecology as听Spatial Practice."
Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris (PhD), secondary with Associate Professor Felicity Fenner, "The Hydrocene: Curatorial theory of the confluence of art, water and the climate crisis in eco-aesthetics."
Jacqui Driver (MFA), joint with Professor Jill Bennett, "The Mothering Thicket: Investigating the Impact of Trans-generational Trauma through Installation Based Print Practice."
Megan Hanson (MFA) joint with Debra Phillips, "鈥業' am not one: co-producing the nomadic subject at the intersection of art and fashion".
Genevieve Reynolds (MFA) joint with Dr Grant Stevens, "Godflesh: The Impact of Digital Image Technologies and Interfaces on Representations of Space in Contemporary Painting".
Min Wong (MFA) joint with Dr Grant Stevens, "Revisiting esoteric traditions and practices through contemporary sculptural practice".
Jana Hawkins-Andersen (MFA) joint with Dr Lindsay Kelley
Lisa Sammut (MFA) joint with Dr Tim Gregory
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