I’m Mills, an artist-curator based in Berwick-upon-Tweed.
Art has gradually become the centre of my life. I spend most of my time travelling around the UK visiting exhibitions, meeting artists, attending conferences and discovering new work. My practice brings together making, curating and writing each continually informing the others.
At the heart of my work is an interest in control: who gets to make art, who gets to see it, whose voices are heard and who decides what is valued. As an artist-curator from a working-class background, I’m interested in what happens when art moves beyond the traditional centres and structures of the art world and who gets to encounter it as a result.
I’m drawn to artists whose work asks difficult questions, and to the independent spaces, regional galleries and unexpected places where exciting work is being made and shared.
I lead projects including the Women Making Art Reading Room and Women Making Art Collection, and develop exhibitions and other projects that create opportunities for artists and audiences to engage with contemporary art.