Nancy Milner

Nancy Milner’s practice is to construct paintings that fix color and form in various, tense economies. Her work reflects the influence of color field painting, pop art, and gestural abstraction. When making a painting, Milner begins with a series of drawings on paper, which she sifts and edits to achieve a colorless draft. With these drawings as a scaffold, Milner contemplates how superimposed colors can generate a vital whole. The process is not pre-set. The painting grows and reshapes with the distensions of time, grasping for a legible equilibrium: a balance between color and line, vacancy and fullness.
Nancy Milner graduated from The Royal Academy Schools in 2013 and from the University of Reading in 2009. From 2014-15, Milner was the British School at Rome’s Abbey Scholar in Painting. Exhibitions of her work include Fully Awake, Royal College of Art, London (September 2018); Approximated Sunlight, Tannery Arts, London (2017); Ex Roma IV, APT Gallery, London (2017); Dark Geometries, Coleman Projects, London (2016); Inherent Vice, Hickster Projects, Siena (2016); John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (2016); Gradation, AF Projects (2016); Ittenology, Rook & Raven Gallery, London (2016); June Mostra, The British School at Rome (2015); Spazzi Aperti 2015, Accademia di Romania, Rome (2015); At Home Salon, Marcelle Joseph Projects, Ascot (2014); Royal Academy Schools Show, London (2013); Form from Form, Matthews Yard, London (2013); and Premiums Interim Projects, Royal Academy of Arts, London (2012). Milner’s work is in the Jerwood Collection and the Hiscox Collection. In 2012 Milner won the Jerwood Purchase Prize for Painting at Premiums Interim Projects.

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