Milly Borrack

23 July - 14 August 2026
Opening Celebration: Thursday 23 July, 5-7pm

Milly Borrack is an artist based in Naarm/Melbourne. Her practice explores temporary rule-based structures such as games, rituals, and exercises. Milly is fascinated by the ways these structures can simultaneously produce freedom and constraint, depending on the choices we make to momentarily accept or disregard them.

Within her practice, Milly develops her own self-imposed frameworks that encourage decisions which cannot always be fully rationalised, allowing intuitive, subjective, and embodied processes to emerge. Over the last six months Milly has been collecting objects, setting out for one hour at a time, without a map or predetermined route. Taking notes in her journal and collecting videos on her Super 8 camera. By surrendering herself to this processes, she finds that rules and structures, though constructed and arbitrary, can become pathways to experiences that feel meaningful, singular, and personally true.

The temporary acceptance of this structure creates a space in which larger social structures centred on productivity, utility and profit can be momentarily suspended. In doing so, her work proposes alternative modes of meaning-making grounded in subjectivity, spontaneity, play and participation.