Millie Mitchell

Millie Mitchell is an emerging Sydney-based artist. In 2019, she completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) at UNSW Art & Design. Her practice engages with drawing and printmaking to explore our connections to place. Mitchell has been exhibiting in group shows since 2017, and held her first solo exhibition, happy prints., in May 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 Fisher’s Ghost Art Award (2020 & 2018), The Little Things Art Prize (2020), Tim Olsen Drawing Prize (2018) and Kudos Emerging Artist + Designer Award (2018). Mitchell undertook a residency at Cork Printmakers, Ireland in 2020. Her work is held in private collections nationally and internationally. Mitchell is also a co-founder and curator for More Than Reproduction, an artist-run initiative promoting women in printmaking.

#11 | A Policewoman and her Kiss of Death Girls, 2017, lithograph on BFK Rives, 38 x 56 cm. NFS.

To this day, I have no idea what happened here. My stone was all inked up and ready to go, I always do one last sponge wipe to make sure the surface is clean. I laid down my paper, ran it through the press, and when I peeled back the corner for the big reveal, there was a squashed bug, like a pressed flower. In a body of work that looked at a lot of death and violence, this was quite poignant, and strangely kind of pretty.