‘(Jamie’s) work is careful, attentive, fragile in the way relationships should be between people. His interests are not distracted by surface concerns like colour, texture, expressive gesture. His work has all those properties but applied as signals towards more searching matters. The subtlety of his choices is the product of working out what every material, stitch, tone, boundary and touch could mean to him and a significant other (a role he temporarily accords the viewer for the purposes of hoped-for interaction). Sanctuary is an interesting title. Does Mills find it in repetition, ritual, loss and retrieval (all apparent here) or does he admit it’s hard to find? Miles Davis is quoted as saying about music that it exists in the spaces rather than the noted. The spaces in Mills’ art are articulate and evocative.’
Confluence i . Hand perforated paper, graphite, beeswax, thread . 76.5 × 56 cm / Confluence ii . Hand perforated paper, graphite, beeswax, thread . 75 × 60 cm
Confluence ii . Hand perforated paper, graphite, beeswax, thread . 75 × 60 cm
Confluence i . Hand perforated paper, graphite, beeswax, thread . 76.5 × 56 cm
Vestige (Umbra) . Paper, steel wire, beeswax, thread . 36 × 27 cm / Talisman (i, ii, iii, iv)
Talisman i, ii, iii, iv . Bronze (Edition of 10) . salvaged parrafin oil, wool . 7 × 2.5 cm
Untitled (A Patient Secret) . Found pocket remnant, wool, cotton . 16.5 × 14 cm
Unison / Jettison : Two objects found on the same day, on the same shore, within approximately fifty steps (forty metres) proximity from one another, under one prostration of the head . aluminium, wood
Sentry Reflecting . Brass, veneer, aged vinyl, paper on panel . 50 × 15.5 cm
