Rebecca Milling’s photography is engaged with the environment and our performance within it.
Working on self initiated projects, she takes on varied subjects with sensitivity and humour.
Current & Recent Projects:
New series of photographs which capture white light travelling through the petal of a flower. Pure colour images representing flowers seen growing in the UK from early spring to late autumn. Petals collected from gardens, from the local park or seen creeping over a garden wall.
Florescence, the period of flowering. The period when plants entice pollinators, the gorgeous, rich colours of petals attracting the insects which are essential for maintaining biodiversity and are the foundation of our ecosystem.
Exit depicts zoo animals leaving the frame. A limited edition artist’s book of this work has recently been published by A Book Edition with a short essay written by Cordelia Underhill, extract below:
“This series of photographs captures animals exiting the scene, and is distinct in its graphic and formal use of tone….The animals, cut in half and leaving the frame, give oblique but pointed reference to the mass endangerment of species in our present environmental crisis. […]”
Exhibitions
Street Level Open 2022, group exhibition, Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow
196th RSA Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
195th RSA Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
Scottish Society of Artists 122nd Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
Exit, Solo exhibition, The Broadway Bookshop, London
Calculated Construction, solo exhibition, 525 Gallery, Edinburgh
Scottish Society of Artists 121st Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
Project Summerhall, Summerhall, Edinburgh
Calculated Construction, Summerhall Corridor, Edinburgh
Episodes, Ethel Maude Collective, Online Film, Edinburgh Art Festival Edinburgh
The Artist Traveller, Group Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
En Coulisse, Ethel Maude Collective Film, Hidden Door, Edinburgh
Decision Time, Group Exhibition, Visual Research Centre, Dundee Contemporary Arts
Exquisite Corpse, Ethel Maude Collective Film, Alchemy Film Festival
Exquisite Corpse, Ethel Maude Collective Film, Summerhall, Edinburgh Art Festival
The 7th Street Level Open, group exhibition, Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow
Open Photography 2, group exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
If I Jump Off A Bridge Will You Follow Me? Group Exhibition, Edinburgh Art Festival
3/3 Group Exhibition, Antigua St, Edinburgh
Digital VD, Group Exhibition/ Filmwork, touring
Pop Up Image, Group Exhibition, Heyri Art Valley, South Korea
Old Habits Die Hard, Group Exhibition, Touring worldwide
Trace, Video Installation/ Performance, Generator Projects, Dundee
Walk Ahead, Sound Installation, WASPS Studios, Dundee
Resource Room, Sound Installation, Exhibitions, University of Dundee
Stone Being, Solo Exhibition, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen
Wandering Portrait and Evening Portrait, Performances, Duff House, Banff, Aberdeenshire
Outside, Inside, Performance, Market Gallery, Glasgow,
Still Life, Performance, Visual Research Centre, Dundee Contemporary Arts
I’m a Stranger Here Myself, Group Exhibition, Stills, Edinburgh
Awards
Creative Scotland Award, SSA Exhibition, RSA, Edinburgh
Gallery Ten Award, SSA Exhibition, RSA, Edinburgh
100 Flowers Collection, New South Glasgow Hospitals
Royal Scottish Academy Residency with North Lands Glass, Caithness and Stills, Edinburgh
Edinburgh Visual Arts Award
PVA Labculture Residency, Camden Roundhouse, London
Dundee Visual Arts Award
Hope Scott Trust Award
Historic Scotland Grant
Aberdeenshire Council Grant
SAC Photography/ Digital Fellowship, Scottish Sculpture Workshop and Peacock Visual Arts
Research and Training Award, Stills, Edinburgh
Publications
Studies in Photography Summer Edition 2020 - New Contemporaries Feature
Exit Artists Book published by A Book Edition ISBN: 978-3-947295-51-7
Stone Being Exhibition catalogue published by Peacock Visual Arts ISBN:
I’m a Stranger Here Myself Exhibition catalogue
Landscape and Art Feature
Rebecca Milling often works together with other artists and organisations on large projects
Highlights Include:
Grateful - Commission from the Transplant Ward and Tonic Arts at the Royal Infirmary Edinburgh
Rainbow to Recovery - NHS Commission with Tonic Arts at the Royal Infirmary Edinburgh
Cajal Embroidery Project - In celebration of Neuroscience - Commissioned by Edinburgh University Neuroscience Dept and Tonic Arts
Workers Union - Commissioned by Red Note directed by Zoë Irvine and Alice Nelson, 7 screen video installation with live orchestral performance underneath Concorde, Lammermuir Festival, National Museum of Flight
Rebecca Milling runs Copystand, offering a reproduction photography service to artists, publishers and galleries. She does this alongside making her own artwork.