Amy Mills

I've moved back to New Zealand and am taking a break from art :)
Originally from a small town in rural New Zealand, Amy moved to Melbourne in 2008 to carve out a career in fine arts and returned to New Zealand in 2019. She has studied design and architecture which she draws on for artistic concepts and is a self-taught artist. She has been painting since childhood and exhibiting and selling art professionally since 2010.

Amy started her professional career painting contemporary abstracted landscapes in acrylic (later incorporating metal leaf). Her landscapes are inspired by the beauty of the natural world, consider the Gaia Hypothesis, and how the local landscape influences its surrounding culture.

To say she loves wine and coffee would be an understatement. Her obsession with both has slowly spilled over into her arts practice and prompted her to experiment with subjects and mediums – eventually developing into the coffee and wine art you see today.

Studies in Architecture, 2007, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Studies in Design, 2003, Palmerston North School of Design, New Zealand

Solo Exhibitions

2016 Paintings In Coffee And Wine, Speakeasy HQ, Melbourne
2012 Sacrosanct Wine Fairies, 69 Smith St, Fitzroy
2012 New Works, M1ng Gallery, North Fitzroy
2012 Sacrosanct, 69 Smith St Gallery, Fitzroy
2010 Introspect, 69 Smith St Gallery, Fitzroy


Group Exhibitions

2016 Water, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Abbotsford
2016 Linden Postcard Show, St Kilda
2015 Linden Postcard Show, Linden Gallery, St Kilda
2015 Art Of The Cuff, Lord Coconut, Melbourne
2015 69 Steps Forward, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Abbotsford
2014 Linden Postcard Show, Linden Gallery, St Kilda
2014 Art Of The Cuff, Lord Coconut, Melbourne
2013 69 Fifteen, 69 Smith St Gallery, Fitzroy
2013 Art Of The Cuff, Lord Coconut, Melbourne
2013 Likeness 3, 69 Smith St Gallery, Fitzroy
2013 On The Level, 69 Smith St Gallery, Fitzroy
2013 Linden Postcard Show, Linden Gallery, St Kilda
2013 Workers Exhibit, 69 Smith St Gallery, Fitzroy
2013 Summer Stories, 69 Smith St Gallery, Fitzroy
2012 40x40, Brunswick Street Gallery, Brunswick
2012 Secret Life Of Space, 69 Smith St Gallery, Fitzroy
2012 Bottoms Up, Upstairs At The Napier, Fitzroy
2012 Home: A Place Of Origin Or Belonging, World Trade Centre Atrium Gallery, Melbourne
2012 Art Of ...