Coastal Signs is pleased to present our last show of the year: Shivers, a solo exhibition of new painting by Milli Jannides.
Shivers is the artist’s first solo exhibition since returning to Aotearoa from Europe. The show comprises very large and very small paintings that, as always, offer the medium at its most elastic and most expressive. Some paintings in Shivers are densely woven nets, full of gaps or portals to concealed spaces behind, while in others gestural marks sail lightly over the canvas. All quiver with emotion that shifts restlessly from painting to painting.
In Shivers, as in many of Jannides’ recent exhibitions, time appears to be playing tricks. Both within the confines of a single painting—in the contrary speeds of mark-making—and in a broader sense, as the artist conjures motifs and settings of her early work. Shivers features phantoms of paintings-past—veiled subjects and rooms, arches, and perhaps the most iconic marker of time, the shining sun/moon—which taken together disclose an eerie process of return.
After studying Fine Arts and Literature at the University of Auckland, Jannides was a guest student in Peter Doig’s class at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, and received a Masters in painting from the Royal College of Art, London, in 2013. Recent solo exhibitions include: Hothouse, Coastal Signs, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland (2023); Slow Meteorite, McLeavey Gallery, Pōneke Wellington (2022); Far Flung, Coastal Signs, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland (2021) and Winter, Winter, Spring, McLeavey Gallery, Pōneke Wellington (2021).
Milli Jannides is a founding member of the Coastal Signs rōpū. Shivers is the artist’s third solo exhibition at the gallery
