Millie Burton

I am a photographic and video artist based in London. My work deals with domestic space and objects, addressing issues of consumerism, waste and how we value material goods. The series Home Improvements is a document of domestic objects at a recycling and waste depot in the UK. Home Improvements was commissioned by Pavilion as part of the Pavilion Commissions Programme 2007. General Effects, 2006, documents my grandmothers house before she died. The photographs explore the edges of the house, repositories for a gradual accumulation of things and dust. The series addresses the problem of what happens to the objects that the dead leave behind. How do we assign value to objects and what happens to the ones we decide are worthless?

Education: MA in Photography at the London College of Communication, 2006

Exhibitions:

2009: Home Improvements, Pavilion gallery, Leeds

2008: Foto8 Summer Show, Host Gallery, London

2008: Descubrimientos, PhotoEspana, Madrid

2008: Family Archive: Lost and Found, Skolska 28, Prague

2008: Community Pharmacy Gallery, Margate Rocks arts festival, Margate

2007: Best of Arles, Farmani Gallery, LA

2007: Pavilion Commissions, Photofusion, London

2007: Photo Folio Gallery, Rencontres DArles, France

2007: Public Places, Silent Spaces, Showroom & Workstation, Sheffield

2007: MAP Reading, University of Bielefeld, Germany

2006: Elefest, Elephant and Castle subways, London

2006: MA interim show and MA final show, London College of Communication

2006: The Elephant Vanishes, Tate Modern, London

2005: Family Archive: Lost and Found, London College of Communication

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