About

Milly (b. England 2004) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work is rooted in intimacy and revolves around sensitivity. Her practice moves largely between installation, performance and moving image. 

Her work navigates themes of ecology, care and political polarisation. Her conceptual framework is often underpinned by feminist theories, with recent explorations into ecofeminism. At the heart of her practice is an investigation into the ways in which natural, man-made and the personal shape our relationships with others and the world around us. With our precarious way of living in the 21st century, post-Covid, the unavoidable themes of disconnection, polarisation, isolation and individualism, are considered. This brings forward contemporary ideas of interdependency being a negative idea and instead asks the viewer to turn towards community and care and away from parasocial relationships and their dependent technology.

She plays on our humanness, often through highlighting sensory experience, asking the viewer/audience to notice their aliveness. These artworks feed into contemporary political debate and tensions around the climate crisis, right-wing extremism, forms of otherness and other political nuances. However, this work is unique in the way it responds to these issues by exploring them through our communal humanness and everyday activisms, her work refusing to loose hope in the future.

She is currently reading for a Bachelor of Arts degree in Intermedia at Edinburgh College of Art. 

Contact: art@millytoplis.co.uk