AOTEAROA ART FAIR 2025:
Eleanor Millard | Sound of the Coast
29/04/2025 - 04/05/2025
Find us at Booth 19 | Auckland/Aotearoa | 1 – 4 May 2025
Eleanor Millard’s landscapes arrest the speed of life. In her artworks, the furious pace of the everyday suddenly stops, and gives way to a painted meditation. “I try to paint the stillness of the now, with all of its sound,” Millard explains. “The sound of silence; the sound of stillness.”
Millard’s landscapes are personal—they represent places that the artist has been and paths that she has walked—yet their power resides in the fact that they hold a universal resonance. The artist’s brushstrokes pull into existence scenes that tug at our memory; they remind us of places that we’ve never seen, yet somehow know. This paradox sits at the heart of Millard’s forthcoming exhibition, Sound of the Coast, featuring at Aotearoa Art Fair 2025.
Her recent work presents two sides of the singular artist. Here, we find paintings that are calm, and considered, and paintings that are unhesitating and visceral. This first group of landscapes reflect the artist’s practice in its most sensitive and process-driven form. Layer upon layer of paint underpins these soft compositions, which blur the line between abstraction and representation. “I wet the paper and then I work on it, and then it has to dry and then I wet it again,” Millard recalls. “Timing, air temperature, weather – all of these things affect the work.” These landscapes are so delicately rendered that it almost feels as though they could wash away or dissolve before our eyes. Millard’s paintings are somehow able to capture a permanent expression of the land, in its most fleeting, ephemeral state.
In the second group of landscapes, the gentle brushstroke is replaced by a swifter, more urgent sequence of painterly marks. If Millard paints sound, then these works are the crescendo—bursting with raw vibrancy and energy. “These paintings come out really fast and then they are done,” Millard says. “I don’t know how long they take, because, when I am painting, time is irrelevant to my practice.” These artworks embody a collaboration between the artist of the past and an artist of the present, who both work across time, searching for a particular, intangible quality that sets their landscape apart.
Following the artist’s sell-out exhibition at Sydney Contemporary in 2022, Millard continues to push her practice, working sensitively and intuitively on paper, creating windows into worlds where imagery takes shape in minimal and abstracted forms.
WORKS
Eleanor Millard 'Hidden' acrylic on Dutch aquatint paper 50 x 50cm (framed size: 61 x 61cm) SOLD
Eleanor Millard 'Late Night' acrylic on paper on canvas 41 x 43cm (framed size: 42 x 44cm) SOLD
Eleanor Millard 'Reading' acrylic on paper on canvas 44 x 50cm (framed size: 46 x 52cm) NZ$4,150
Eleanor Millard 'Wood Wind' acrylic on handmade French paper 60 x 50cm (framed size: 77 x 62cm) NZ$5,600
Eleanor Millard 'The Road' acrylic on handmade Indian paper 72 x 57cm (framed size: 77 x 62cm) NZ SOLD
Eleanor Millard 'Olive Hills' acrylic on handmade Indian paper 72 x 57cm (framed size: 77 x 62cm) NZ$6,050
Eleanor Millard 'All Day' acrylic on paper 68 x 54cm (framed size: 77 x 62cm) SOLD
Eleanor Millard 'Lake Mountain' acrylic on paper on canvas 40 x 40cm (framed size: 42 x 42cm) NZ$3,800
Eleanor Millard 'Pretty View' acrylic on canvas 46 x 44cm (framed size: 47 x 45cm) SOLD
Eleanor Millard 'Sunny Today' acrylic on paper on canvas 50 x 62cm (framed size: 51 x 63cm) NZ$5,300
Eleanor Millard 'Hilltop' acrylic on paper on canvas 53 x 54cm (framed size: 54 x 55cm) NZ$5,300
Eleanor Millard 'Peaceful and Still acrylic on canvas 50 x 57cm (framed: 51 x 58cm) NZ$5,300
Eleanor Millard 'Sound and Reflection' acrylic on Dutch aquatint paper 76 x 97cm (framed size: 84 x 105cm)SOLD
Eleanor Millard 'A Secret Inlet' acrylic on Dutch aquatint paper 76 x 97cm (framed size: 84 x 105cm) SOLD
Eleanor Millard 'Day on the Island' acrylic on Dutch aquatint paper 76 x 97cm (framed size: 84 x 105cm) NZ$7,995
Eleanor Millard 'Coastal Morning' acrylic on Dutch aquatint paper 76 x 97cm (framed size: 84 x 105cm) NZ$7,995
Eleanor Millard 'Sounds of the Tide' acrylic on Dutch aquatint paper 76 x 97cm (framed size: 84 x 105cm) NZ$7,995
Eleanor Millard 'The Green Hill' acrylic on Dutch aquatint paper 76 x 97cm (framed size: 84 x 105cm) NZ$7,995
Eleanor Millard 'Orange Trees' acrylic on Dutch aquatint paper 97 x 76cm (framed size: 105 x 84cm) SOLD
Eleanor Millard 'White Water' acrylic on Dutch aquatint paper 97 x 76cm (framed size: 105 x 84cm) SOLD
Eleanor Millard 'To the Ocean' acrylic on Dutch aquatint paper 76 x 97cm (framed size: 84 x 105cm) NZ$7,995
Eleanor Millard 'Veridian Lake' acrylic on Dutch aquatint paper 76 x 97cm (framed size: 84 x 105cm) NZ$7,995
Eleanor Millard 'Deep Lake' acrylic on Dutch aquatint paper 76 x 97cm (framed size: 84 x 105cm) NZ$7,995
Eleanor Millard 'Boat Ramp' acrylic on Dutch aquatint paper 97 x 76cm (framed size: 105 x 84cm) NZ$7,995
Eleanor Millard 'Violet Light' acrylic on Dutch aquatint paper 76 x 97cm (framed size: 84 x 105cm) NZ$7,995
Eleanor Millard 'The Lookout' acrylic on paper 56 x 66cm (framed size 67 x 77cm) NZ$5,550
Eleanor Millard 'Across from the mainland' acrylic on Arches aquarelle paper 102 x 114cm (framed size: 110 x 122cm) NZ$9,990
Eleanor Millard 'My Island' acrylic on Arches aquarelle paper 98 x 114cm (framed size: 106 x 122cm) NZ SOLD
Eleanor Millard 'Two Watersheds' acrylic on Arches aquarelle paper 114 x 102cm (framed size 122 x 110cm) NZ SOLD
Eleanor Millard 'Around the Point' acrylic on Arches aquarelle paper 114 x 102cm (framed size: 122 x 110cm) NZ SOLD
Eleanor Millard 'Sailing Past' acrylic on Arches aquarelle paper 114 x 102cm (framed size: 122 x 110cm) NZ$9,990
Eleanor Millard 'The Sunbathers' acrylic on canvas 40 x 40cm NZ$3,800
Eleanor Millard 'The Sound of Indigo' acrylic on Arches aquarelle paper 102 x 114cm (framed size: 110 x 122cm) NZ$9,990
Eleanor Millard 'Reflection' acrylic on Arches aquarelle paper 102 x 114cm (framed size: 110 x 122cm) NZ$9,990
Eleanor Millard 'Morning at Home' acrylic on paper 102 x 114cm (framed size: 110 x 122cm) SOLD