Biography

Born in 1999 in London and moved to Perth, Western Australia in 2010, Millie Gillespie is  inspired by the beauty of the everyday and its ability through art to be abstracted, in parallel to this she is drawn to subtle changes in tone and texture in the world around her. After studying Fine Art, Millie studied at the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, Ticino, Switzerland and completed her Architecture degree at the University of Western Australia. After working as a High Fashion Stylist and Visual Merchandiser she currently works at an award winning Fremantle architecture practice and writes for a number of Italian and Australian Architectural Journals. Millie is also an avid and prolific abstract painter who focuses on medium to large scale works with a variety of mediums.