About the artist:

Journals etched with dreams, postcards of museum objects, and a novel dog-eared with favoured passages: here are markers of an artist whose work dovetails language, meaning, and resonance. There are other objects too – horsehair brushes, linseed, and oils – old elements, called together...

Milli Jannides (1986) grew up in Tāmaki Makaurau, raised by a family of theatermakers – a telling context for the painter who stages pictorial invention.