Milli Jannides

Milli Jannides (born 1986 in Sydney) is an Australian-born New Zealand artist, living and based in London, United Kingdom.

Education Jannides was born in Sydney, Australia, but moved to New Zealand and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting conjoint with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature in 2009 from Elam School of Fine Arts in Auckland, while spending one semester in 2007 abroad on exchange at the Glasgow School of Art. In 2010 she was a guest student at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. In 2013 she received her Master of Arts in Painting from the Royal College of Art in London.

Career In August 2013, Jannides exhibited work at the Hermes' lack of words exhibit at Artspace NZ in Auckland, together with Manon de Boer, Eleanor Cooper, William Hsu, and Rosalind Nashashibi. In her paintings she knots vision and memory together, with each work beginning with a quote or passage from literature and often connecting the physical landscape of the scene with the emotion of a character. She uses symbols like a tree, chains, an hourglass, and steps.

Work Exhibitions Frottage Cottage, Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland, 2017 The Company of Volcanoes, Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland, 2016 Necessary Distraction: A Painting Show, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland, 2015 Sound Bow (with Ruth Buchanan), Johan Berggren, Malmö, 2014 As the light dips, Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland, 2014 Method & Gesture, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne, 2013 Part Two Soft Eyes, TCB, Melbourne, 2013 Hermes' lack of words, Artspace, Auckland, 2013 Royal College of Art graduation show, London, 2013 Eyelash Gnawing, Hopkinson Cundy, Auckland, 2012 David Hofer and Milli Jannides, Hopkinson Cundy, Auckland, 2011 Sue Crockford Gallery Window, Auckland, 2011 Milli Jannides and Sam Rountree Williams, Victor and Hester, Glasgow, 2010 Keeping Still, A Center for Art, Auckland, 2009 Jokes with Strangers, A Center for Art, Auckland, 2008 Paintings, Window Onsite, Auckland, 2008 Here Today, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, 2007