“My work is about memory, relationships, connection, and the very act of making itself. These concerns are reflected through allegory of material and process – a mark, a stitch, a reconfiguring, a repetition, all become meditations upon, ultimately, a human experience.” – JM
❊
Jamie Mills is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in West Cornwall, UK. His practice is underpinned by an investigation into the dissemination of gesture between materiality and environments, referencing both internal and external landscapes.
The principal working materials within his largely monochromatic vocabulary, are often sourced and repurposed from natural environments or borderlands and include salvaged remnants of fabrics, natural pigments, as well as inorganic matter that functions as a counterpoint to the organic.
Pared down relationships between material narratives and process serve as allegory to psychological or emotional states; often surrounding memory, grief, and an exploration into the embodiment of these processes on a personal and universal level. These concerns facilitate a distillation of form that exists at a threshold between the abstract and the concrete, reflecting a space in which a minutia of gesture and a humility of material can communicate vital expressions of intimacy and connection.
His images, assemblages, and intuitively composed sound works can be viewed as markers to a series of internal journeys or rituals informed by a poetic dialogue between material, form, environment, and personal histories.
Jamie has collaborated with both UK, and Internationally based artists and filmmakers, and has work held in public and private collections within the UK, Europe, and the US.
❊
Selected Exhibitions
2025 – Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, Falmouth Art Gallery, Cornwall, UK
2025 – Lucent, University of Plymouth, Devon, UK
2024 – Luxembourg Art Week, group presentation, Grége Gallery, Luxembourg
2024 – Art on Paper Brussels, group fair presentation, Grége Gallery, Brussels
2024 – ’25 – Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London, UK, Finalist, (touring exhibition to multiple public venues, UK)
2024 – Renaissance, group exhibition, Grége Gallery, Brussels
2024 – Make Yourself at Home, group exhibition, HWEG, Cornwall, UK
2024 – Lucent, a touring, mixed, International exhibition of works curated by David Quinn, Wexford Arts Centre, Wexford, Ireland
2024 – A Skin Made Porous, group exhibition, Anima Mundi, Cornwall
2024 – Lucent, a touring, mixed, International exhibition of works curated by David Quinn, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, Ireland
2023 – Sanctuary (A Space Under the Tongue), solo exhibition, HWEG, Cornwall, UK
2023 – Lucent, a touring, mixed, International exhibition of works curated by David Quinn, Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, Ireland
2022 – ’23 – Wheel of the Year, mixed online programme of exhibitions, Anima Mundi
2021 – Thresholds (The Unnamed), mixed online exhibition, Anima Mundi
2020 – Ode to a Nightingale, mixed online exhibition, Anima Mundi
2019 – Protected by Alarms, mixed artist site specific exhibition curated by Joseph Clarke featuring sound installation, St. Ives, Cornwall, UK
2019 – In Light of Your Becoming, sound and visual installation, Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, Cornwall, UK
2018 – Trans-form – Trevor Bell, Peninsular Arts, Plymouth, Devon. Musical composition and dance co-direction. Peninsular Arts, Plymouth, Devon.
2018 – The Hail Glow, collaborative exhibition and artist publication incorporating sound, photography and sculpture. Exhibited Anima Mundi, St. Ives, and Circa 21, Penzance, Cornwall.