Lot 331 - Millie Shafiee - Castles in the Air

Ink on paper
2025
A6 (10x15cm)
Original Artwork
Signed on Verso
Curated by Art on a Postcard

About

Millie Shafiee is a multi-disciplinary artist, who works in drawing, film, sound and installation. Light and space are key elements in Shafiee’s practice and her imagery is often created using drawings from film. Her references to cinematic light highlight her experience of creating imagined stories from her family history. Being half Persian, her practice explores diaspora, inherited memory, and the fragility of oral histories, which become diluted or lost in translation.

Education

2023-2024
The Collective Studio, The Newbridge Project, Newcastle Upon Tyne

2019-2023
BA Fine Art, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne with study abroad program at University of Victoria, Canada

2018-2019
Level 3 Diploma in Fine Art, The Royal Drawing School, London

Group Exhibitions

2025
New Contemporaries, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK

2024
New Contemporaries, KARST, The Levinsky Gallery and MIRROR, Plymouth, UK
Create Disrupt, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
The Forum Cinema, Hexham, UK
Open Studios, The Newbridge Project, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

2023
Newcastle University at Parallax Art Fair, London, UK
BA Fine Art Degree Show, Space, Liverpool, UK
BA Fine Art Degree Show, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Volunteers’ exhibition, Star and Shadow, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

2022
Interim Show, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Drawing and Mark-making, The Audain Gallery, Victoria, Canada
Photography and Paint, The Grey Room, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada

2021
Open Studios, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

Awards

2023

Forshaw Women Artists' Interview Award, The Forshaw Group

Bartlett Travel Award, The Bartlett Fund

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork

These ink drawings combine glimpses of family memories with the cinematic compositions and vast Northumberland landscape in BBC’s Vera. They were created using rapid thumbnail sketches drawn live in response to the production, the fast pace of changing shots means some of the compositions are from memory and partially improvised. The combination of imagined and memorised imagery highlights my experience of creating ancestral memories from fragmented images.