Rebecca Milling

Milling's artistic practice stems from ideas that explore reality and non reality, our state of being, the concept of if and when we are present within a space. She is currently extending this research, using digital photography to pursue and illustrate the mental state of the human being through depiction of the physical.
She uses a  high spec digital camera which has the facility to be controlled by a laptop where long exposures and delayed timings can be precisely set up. This allows her to work completely alone, viewing the images as she shoots them, so that the working process is quite organic, growing and building from one image to the next. It is also a very physical process, using the technology to record her movements, for example, throwing herself onto the floor over and over again.
Milling uses performance to camera to create imagery suggesting the exploration of psychological states, photography as another form of expression, revealing what is not yet seen. These photographs strive to capture the uncontrollable restlessness
of the human mind and particularly the fragility of the psyche in relation to femininity.

Biography
Rebecca Milling was born in London in 1971 and later grew up in South Wales. She completed her BA(HONS) in Fine Art Printmaking in 1994 at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee. Milling then went on to complete her Masters in Fine Art at Dundee in 1999 and continues to work as an artist using a range of media including photography, performance, sound and video. She currently lives and works in Edinburgh.

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