Co-founders Jennifer Brady, Sarah Rose and Millie Mitchell at Edition Four, 2023. Photography by Olivia Arnold.
More Than Reproduction (MTR) is a Sydney-based artist-run initiative for female-identifying and gender fluid artists, co-founded by Jennifer Brady, Millie Mitchell and Sarah Rose. We are dedicated to strengthening printmaking practices across Australia by building a sense of creative community. Our platform aims to bolster artists in the early stages of their careers by increasing their visibility and facilitating unique opportunities through an artistic program grounded in network building, peer-support, professional development and the diversification of audiences with print-practice.
Jennifer Brady
Co-Founder & Engagement Coordinator
Jennifer Brady is a Sydney based emerging artist. In 2018 she completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) at the University of New South Wales - Art & Design, specialising in Drawing and Photography. Primarily engaging with language and ‘word art’, Brady has been actively involved in group shows since mid 2016 in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Solo exhibitions include Betwixt & Between (2018) at Gaffa Gallery, Sydney; This is a Conversation Piece (2019), curated by Sarah Rose, at 107 Projects, Redfern; and i think maybe i’ll try to start figuring it out now (2020) at Gaffa Gallery, Sydney. Also operating in curatorial realms, Brady co-curated the outdoor exhibition ‘Piece of Mind’ (2018) at Gallery Lane Cove + Creative Studios with Yanchen Li for Mental Health Month, and curated group shows ‘d.i.why?’ (2019) at Kudos Gallery, Paddington and ‘Crossword’ (2019) at AD Space, UNSW Art & Design, Paddington. Brady was a finalist for the Lethbridge 10,000 Small Scale Art Award (2017), Jenny Birt Award (2018), and the Kudos Emerging Artist and Designer Award (2018).
Millie Mitchell
Co-Founder & Operations Coordinator
Millie Mitchell is an emerging Sydney-based artist. In 2019, she completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) at UNSW Art & Design, where she now works as Technical Support in the printmaking workshops. Her practice explores the place of drawing and printmaking within contemporary art, employing architecture and still life to navigate her identity as an artist. Mitchell has been exhibiting in group shows since 2017. Her recent solo exhibitions include Framed (2022) at Little Yellow Studio Collective, Sydney, and happy prints. (2021) at White Rhino Artspace, Sydney. She was invited to exhibit in the Print Council of Australia’s group exhibition, plate_tone (2018), as part of the student showcase of emerging printmakers. Mitchell was a finalist in the Small Works Art Prize (2023), Lloyd Rees Memorial Youth Art Prize (2021), The Little Things Art Prize (2020), and Fisher’s Ghost Art Award (2020 & 2018). Mitchell undertook a residency at Cork Printmakers, Ireland in 2020. Her work is held in private collections nationally and internationally.
Sarah Rose
Co-Founder & Project Coordinator
Sarah Rose (she/they) is a Gadigal/Sydney-based curator and arts worker currently working at Artspace as the Associate Curator. In 2023, they was profiled in the ‘Tastemaker’ section of Art Collector Magazine’s ‘50 Things Collectors Should Know’ issue (Jan-Mar 2023), and they curated exhibition In the fibre of her being (2021-22) at Fairfield City Museum and Gallery received a 2022 MGNSW IMAGinE Award. They’ve previously held positions at the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA), Create NSW, and are the outgoing Coordinator for Contemporary Arts Organisations Australia (CAOA). They hold a Masters of Curating & Cultural Leadership with Excellence and a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Distinction from UNSW Art & Design. Curatorially, they practice reflects their interests into trace and imbued materiality, navigating the experiences that underpin our innate humanness, from its inherent dualisms, to how these experiences ultimately shape our identities and sense of being. Their current research explores queer and gender epistemologies, embodiment and resistence.
