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'Migration of the Displaced'
'Migration of the Displaced' as part of the Anthropocene Xtinction collection in Shrine Nyc Group Show.
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MIGRATION OF THE DISPLACED Painting

Claire Milner

United Kingdom

Painting, Oil on Canvas

Size: 39.4 W x 39.4 H x 1.6 D in

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Oil painting on box canvas which incorporates a Swarovski crystal mosaic. Featured in The Curator's Salon, The Flux Review, Musings, Yorkshire Living and Entity. Allegorical mixed media work about displacement and loss. The monochromatic panel highlights irreversible loss and memories of things long gone. The crystal mosaic X on the face of the principal animal at once highlights its preciousness and draws attention to its fate. The work focuses on the Grevy’s Zebra featured in the monochromatic panel, which is the most threatened of the three species of zebra, assessed as Endangered with a population reduction of 54% over the past three generations to a current population of about 2,680 individuals. Of equal importance and under threat are rainforests where this scene is set and not on their native Ethiopian and Northern Kenyan habitat. This underscores the involuntary migration metaphor, representing both the fragility of the migratory Grevy’s Zebra and alluding to the vulnerability of the migration of any displaced being. As climate change intensifies, so too will the battle for earth’s resources and the need for many to find shelter as migrants displaced from their own homes. The addition of the crouching ghostly female figure serves as a reminder that our own future is inherently bound up with our treatment of the earth’s natural resources.

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Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:39.4 W x 39.4 H x 1.6 D in

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British artist Claire Milner was famously commissioned to create the Blue Marilyn portrait for Rihanna, widely featured by the global media, but her personal body of work is made up of paintings inspired by her time spent in Africa focusing on social and environmental issues. In May 2023 Milner was selected as one of fewer than ten artists worldwide for Active Membership of the Gallery Climate Coalition, along with several blue chip galleries, institutions and museums. Her work was selected by the conference organisers to be exhibited in the Blue Zone of COP26. She works in collections which are continuously evolving around the theme of nature, our place within it and encroachment upon it. Environmental references such as climate change and mass extinction have been the central focus of her image making for more than two decades. Her artworks include diverse mediums including paint, paper and collage, and as a signifier of her familial ties to Italy, she sometimes incorporates the ancient art of mosaic - famous for animal depictions – and crystal methodologies as a symbiosis of past and present. Her portrayal of animals’ interchanges between the metaphoric and the literal, yet the impact of humanity remains implicit, even when the human figure is absent or plays a minor role in the composition. Her process begins with extensive research, engaging in hours of study, compiling statistics and viewing painful imagery of the consequences of poaching, habitat loss and climate change. A great deal of consideration is given to the integration of this material into the final composition, where realistic and abstract elements coexist, alongside carefully selected art historical references and themes from classical literature forming a balance of topical and historical narratives. Milner’s work has been displayed in museum exhibitions in the UK and her paintings have been widely featured in the global media including the BBC, BLOUIN ARTINFO, Channel News Asia, Elle, Forbes, Huffington Post Arts, The Observer, Save Virunga, The Telegraph, The Times, Vogue Paris and Vogue India.

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