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Kate McMillan's Instructions for Another Future opened to a warm and responsive audience, and has been well attended since. It was such a pleasure to welcome Kate McMillan and family back to Perth for this concise and elegant project, conceived for Moore Contemporary from the artist’s ongoing explorations of sites of history and constructions of meaning and mythology. In a recent interview with Susie Pentelow published in the online journal After Nyne, Kate explained: 'I’m interested in histories that have been overlooked. And I think every country has those histories….I think history marks our bodies in particular ways. And of course, when we think that about our own histories it’s always located in a place and it’s almost impossible to talk about ourselves, and our identity, without talking about place.'
On Opening night the presentation of a script written by the artist and voiced by a local actor, served to illuminate Kate's visual integration of the hag stone imagery into her beautifully assembled and sewn wall works. Draped and layered swathes of velvet and silk chiffon bearing digital prints and combined with found and hand-crafted elements dot the walls. A number of these works have found their way into local collections, extending the reverberations of stories into new locations.
Since Kate’s return to London she has undertaken site visits to Germany and Scotland for forthcoming exhibitions. She has been commissioned to exhibit in Schloss Lieberose for Rohkunstbau XXIV, curated by Mark Gizbourne. This will include a film-based installation currently under production. Additionally, her 2017 film Lost Places is included in the exhibition Home on the Move, curated by Ricarda Vidal with support from Arts Council England. This will tour to Whitstable Biennale Satellite, June 2018; Ledbury Poetry Festival, Ledbury; The Poetry Library, Southbank Centre, London. In July 2018 her multidisciplinary exhibition The Past is Singing in our Teeth, opens in Arusha Gallery, for the Edinburgh Festival.
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