Love[f]Art #02 | Clare Milledge

Hosted by Amanda Love, the LoveArt podcast brings listeners into direct conversation with contemporary artists, extending the work of the independent art advisory, LoveArt, based in Sydney, New York and Athens.

The series draws from Love[f]Art, LoveArt’s ongoing program of intimate, in-conversation recordings with artists, originally conceived in 2020. Filmed in the most unlikely of settings—the guest powder room at the Love residence—the project strips things back to a one-to-one exchange, focusing on ideas, process and the conditions that shape contemporary practice.

This episode features Sydney-based artist Clare Milledge, discussing her site-specific work Little shrike-thrush calling in the gully: in praise of shadows (2020). Structured as a pentaptych and realised using the Byzantine hinterglasmalerei technique, the work brings together fragments of language gathered from ecological fieldwork and digital encounters.

Drawing on both environmental observation and contemporary modes of communication, Milledge constructs a shifting, personal lexicon that sits between the natural world and human systems of meaning.

Recorded in February 2021, at the time of the work’s installation, the conversation offers a direct insight into the thinking behind the piece, and the broader concerns that underpin her practice.

Clare Milledge is represented by STATION Australia.

Additional information, including the video version of this podcast, is available here.