Rebecca Milling was born in London in 1971 and later grew up in South Wales. She completed her BA(HONS) in Fine Art in 1994 at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee. Milling then went on to complete her Masters in Fine Art at Dundee in 1999 and continues to work as an artist using photography. She currently lives and works in Edinburgh.
Milling is currently working on the series, Elemental Construction, which portrays the split second of destruction, the smashing of a glass sculpture which she has built over a long period of time.
“Building up and up and up, constructing a 'thing' of giant proportions is an elemental human desire. We watch children build a tower of bricks with great method and precision followed by the moment of glee and delight when it is high enough to bash down and lies strewn across the floor. In fact, I have recently observed that the desire to smash down comes before a child is even able to build the tower themselves.” The glass shatters and flies in all directions, seized in photographs as Milling runs behind having thrown the hammer.
Milling uses performance to camera to create imagery suggesting the exploration of psychological states. These photographs strive to capture the uncontrollable restlessness of the human mind and particularly the fragility of the psyche in relation to femininity.
Elemental Vestige 2010