Artist : Jamie Mills
Title : A Space Under Your Tongue (Vestige)
Medium : paper, beeswax, cotton, thread
Dimensions : 28.5 x 35 cm


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Jamie Mills’ practice is underpinned by an investigation surrounding the dissemination of gesture between materiality and environments – referencing both internal and external landscapes. These concerns are reinforced by an interdisciplinary approach to working and are made manifest through the renderings of materials often sourced or retrieved via immersion into nature or borderlands The term ‘gestalt’ refers to a concept within psychotherapeutic fields, inferring that the nature of a whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Mills’ employment of the mediums of photography, sound and mark-making can be read in this sense whereby a reality is constructed not by the sole surface representation of any individual element alone, but instead there is a sense that the artist's reality is presented through the relationships and the spaces between elements. In other terms, it is work that requires both on one hand a stepping away from, and on the other an immersion into, in order to extract an empathetic understanding of the essence of the work that presides from both a conscious and subconscious framework of mind.

Universally inherent within his process of rendering, there is a conscious dialogue between, on one hand material intent (or ‘essence’) and on the other, control (or the relinquishing of control), so as to make work that negotiates thresholds and occupies at times a liminal status. In this sense Mills’ “intuitively composed” sound works, and his images or assemblages become markers to a series of internal journeys or rituals informed by an often poetic dialogue between material, form and environment.