Millie Murfit is a photographer and ceramic artist from small town Western Australia. Millie uses photography to explore the outdated, isolated nature of rural Western Australia, creating dreamy photographs of a world infrequently observed in such intimacy.
Exhibitions
Days of Their Lives - Perth Centre for Photography, 2020.
“Murfit’s landscape photographs inspire a sense of nostalgia for strange, dreamlike places I have never visited. Working exclusively on film and with rural landscapes, Murfit plays with notions of the real and the imagined. Here, photography’s inherent formal tensions emerge triumphant: these landscapes have been considered and constructed carefully by their photographer, but appear at once familiar, as if I have visited them before. The works perform a tension between recollection and reconstruction; in the act of looking at the photographs, memory is both experienced and generated in multiple ways.” -Review by The Sheila Foundation.
CLIP Award 2020 - Perth Centre for Photography.
“The Contemporary Landscapes in Photography (CLIP) Awards is an internationally open photographic prize for new perspectives in natural and urban landscape photography.“
COLLECTIVE 2020 - Perth Centre for Photography.
Perth Centre for Photography’s annual Members exhibition showcasing collectable photographic work by emerging and established artists. WA’s biggest photographic exhibition, featuring over 65 local, national and international artists. Featured work.
IRIS Award Exhibition 2021 - Perth Centre for Photography.
“The IRIS Award is an internationally open, biennial art prize acknowledging outstanding contemporary portraiture.” IRIS Award Finalist for a photo entitled ‘liv in the backseat.’
Arts Toodyay Gallery - Arts Toodyay, 2022.
“Arts Toodyay is a vibrant community of artists showcasing a wide variety of local artwork in Toodyay.”
Ratbags Art Co. ‘Unfolding’ Exhibition, 2022 - Gallery 152, York.
“Ratbags Arts Collective is proud to present Unfolding, a group exhibition showcasing 14 emerging Western Australian artists working in various mediums.”
Awards
Winner - Student Prize, CLIP Award 2020
‘Fever Dream’, 35mm film photograph, student winner.
Finalist - IRIS Award 2021 - Perth Centre for Photography.
‘liv in the backseat’, 35mm film photograph, finalist.
Publications / Features
Self-published zine, ‘(No) Vacancy’, 2019.
A 24 page zine of hazy dreamscapes exploring the isolated nature of small towns, focusing on outdated motels and barren landscapes in rural Western Australia.
Exhibition Review: Days of Their Lives - The Sheila Foundation, 2020.
A Photo Walk with Millie Murfit, 2020.
Photo walk / interview video by Luke Hackett and Baeley Amalfi.
Better Days Blog Feature, 2021.
Interviewed by Better Days for their blog. Better Days is a small, independent book publisher based in Perth, Western Australia with a focus on contemporary art and photography.
Focus Pocus Film Lab Blog Feature, 2022.
Interviewed by Focus Pocus Film Lab for their member feature blog. Focus Pocus is an independant photo lab running in a studio in the heart of Walyalup / Fremantle.