DESCRIPTION:
Gouache on paper
21 x 29 cm
2023
BIO:
Taryn Millar is an interdisciplinary and research based artist who lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa. She received her BA (Fine Arts) from the University of The Witwatersrand, followed by a two year apprenticeship with photographer Jurgen Schadeberg. Over the past 19 years, she has continued independent studies under the mentors and artists Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky (known collectively as Rosenclaire) taking part in annual residencies, workshops and courses in Cape Town and Florence (Italy).
Millar has participated in numerous exhibitions over the past eighteen years. The most recent are Re-vision at The AVA Gallery in Cape Town, Conversations with Irma at the Irma Stern Museum and A Ripple Effect at The AVA Gallery in Cape Town. Millar is the founding member of A Still Life, an art and environmental activist collective whose current project was commissioned by the Institute for Creative Arts (UCT) for (Un)Infecting The City 2021 and was awarded The Social Impact Art Prize which culminated in an exhibition at the Rupert Museum in Stellenbosch in 2022. Her work is part of private and corporate collections.
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DESCRIPTION:
Gouache on paper
21 x 29 cm
2023
BIO:
Taryn Millar is an interdisciplinary and research based artist who lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa. She received her BA (Fine Arts) from the University of The Witwatersrand, followed by a two year apprenticeship with photographer Jurgen Schadeberg. Over the past 19 years, she has continued independent studies under the mentors and artists Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky (known collectively as Rosenclaire) taking part in annual residencies, workshops and courses in Cape Town and Florence (Italy).
Millar has participated in numerous exhibitions over the past eighteen years. The most recent are Re-vision at The AVA Gallery in Cape Town, Conversations with Irma at the Irma Stern Museum and A Ripple Effect at The AVA Gallery in Cape Town. Millar is the founding member of A Still Life, an art and environmental activist collective whose current project was commissioned by the Institute for Creative Arts (UCT) for (Un)Infecting The City 2021 and was awarded The Social Impact Art Prize which culminated in an exhibition at the Rupert Museum in Stellenbosch in 2022. Her work is part of private and corporate collections.
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