Millie Young

I animate therefore I am a teacher
I teach therefore I am an illustrator
I illustrate therefore I reflect my environment
In reflecting my environment I am animated.

Trunkated Tales, Millie's most recent exhibition had 30 new works and 30 selected retrospective works from the 15 years research and painting of Thailand’s captive elephants covering elephant encounters at Elephant Nature Park, The Thai Elephant Conservation Center and the Ayutthaya Royal Elephant Kraal. They are her personal perspective and each image is drawn from observations of the elephants. It is a privilege and a pleasure to get to know these amazing creatures and Millie is indebted to those who work hard to care for them. During these 15 years significant numbers of these elephants present in her work have passed away their lives a testimony of the complexity of issues in the Human Elephant Conflict.
The exhibition is a celebration of the elephant, exploring this topic by focussing on issues of our impact on their lives, paintings that juxtapose our presence in their world. The acrylic layered paintings play with light and shadow, often using gold to add an uncanny life in the paintings which change moods as daylight changes From a rogue el...

MA Sequential Art & Illustration
PGCE Art & Design & Drama
BA Hons Creative Arts: Visual Art & Drama

Sept 6th - Oct 31st 2015 Elephant Memories - a retrospective of paintings. Patom ArtnGallery, Ayuttyaya, Thailand
March 2015 Trunkated tales, Neilson Hayes Gallery, Bangkok
December 2012 Displacement & Misplacement, Ayutthaya National Art Museum, Thailand
November 2012 Learning Resources Gallery, Mahidol University, Salaya, Bangkok
May-Sept 2011 Dialogic Exhibition, Animation INstallation, Bangkok Arts & Cultural Centre
Nov 2010 Silent Scream, Video backdrop, Democrazy Theatre Studio, Bangkok. Thailand
Nov 2008 Animated Set, Thrupenny Opera, Nuni productions, Thailand Cultural Center, Thailand
2007 Brighton Art Fair, Corn Exchange , Brighton
2007 Art for Survival Auction, Christie’s Art Auction LONDON
2007 Open Houses Brighton Festival Fringe
2006 Open Houses Brighton Festival Fringe
2005 Open Houses Brighton Festival Fringe
2004 Open Houses Brighton Festival Fringe
2003 Clang Chang Swish Bang! Booth Museum of Natural History , Brighton
1999 Tally Bloody Ho! Taped Up! South East Arts/Meridian TV commission and screening