The Rains Of The East
Milly Yencken
Opening: 5.30pm, Friday 14 March 2025
Exhibition: 13 – 29 March 2025
Project Space, Contemporary Art Tasmania
At daybreak the school house awakened by the ringing of the bells. At noon they were still ringing and continued on deep into the nightfall. They rang day in, day out, louder and louder. Their cold drone became the monotonous hum, between the boundaries of the chalk lines and the wooden posts of the school yard, the lost yard. Four walls of a weeping house, built over and unseen crossroads. As the pools of water gathered, between rapid footsteps. They wore their hats like weighted clouds, to hold the rain inwards, rather than outwards. Exchanging their words through the veil of a whisper. They all sought a kind of shelter and tried to locate it inside of one another. A ceremony of encounters carried out between the rhythms of the bells. The clockwork of a space, inside an unspoken sermon of swallowed rain.
Milly Yencken was born in Naarm/Melbourne and studied at the University of Tasmania (2016), receiving a BFA. Her work involves narratives that emphasise feeling rather than story, and each visual portrait is influenced by the locations within which they are constructed. She has undertaken numerous residencies, internships and courses, including: the animation studios, Finta, Ljubljana, Slovenia and BAP Studio, Porto, Portugal (2023); Masters of Animation, Eesti Kunstiakaadeemia, Estonia (2019 – 23); and, Hladan, Litli-Gardur, Akuereyi resideny, Iceland (2022). Recent exhibitions include: Fistivals Animated, Germany; Fredrikstad Animation Festival, Norway – Grand Prix Award; Dusk, Devonport Regional Gallery, Lutruwita/Tasmania (all 2023); and Photons, Moonah Arts Centre, Lutruwita/Tasmania (2022).