The following 'descriptions' continue my fragmentary visits to artist's studios. Thank you to Julie-Anne for allowing me to impose on her time and trusting me to formulate what essentially remain as chance and arbitrary impressions of not only her work but the studio space itself.
Julie-Anne Milinski's current studio practice explores a range of human and botanical inflections where irony and humour intersect. Presently Julie-Anne is completing post-graduate studies at Griffith University Queensland College of Art in Brisbane.
1.
nature
not knowing its origins
its compulsion
its capacity for allegory
its solitude of reaction
waiting description
imperium in impero
structures
containing
structures
its vitality
and uncanny effect
constitutions of small dilemmas
forever
surviving destruction
2.
jardinière
of
domestic
solitude
Baroque borders
of
oblique plastic
emblems
reversing sensory horizons
its resurrection
of unnatural histories
resting
recalling
madness
and mimicry
a harbinger of
a prosthetic rapture
like nouns
gesturing strangeness
its chronology of drawings
eventually
accepting
identification
3.
plant forms
charged
and
inhabited
with nouns
their inscriptions
immediate to consciousness
ex cerpta
extracts
correspondence
and
biographies
the deeply botanical
and historical
possessing
the archetypal
juxta
close to
concealed renderings
of
the sexuality of fluorescence
its excess
playful documentaries
a tacit domesticity
its perception
of intimate escapes
feeding
human nature
memento mori
recalling death
intervening in descriptions
of place
its a priori
evidence
has made me poor
4.
terra incognita
an unknown country
descriptions
of flora
and
cultures habits
made
through its soil
attracting
provocations
and laments
capable of loving things to death
the botanical artifact
knitted
tongues
and
crocheted
limbs of
botanical feedings
semper paratus
always prepared
remnant shelters
and
wall paper fragments
allegories of embrace
and separation
The Atlas of Wood Turning
making us distinctly human
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