| Maggy Milner has always been passionate about the photographic process. Originally, photography was a all consuming hobby balanced precariously between a nursing career and a busy family life. In 1990, she graduated from Derby University with BA (hons) in Photostudies. She became a lecturer at North Nottinghamshire College and also lectured part time at Nottingham University and Sheffield Hallam. She continued to develop her personal work and received the East Midlands Bursary for photography in 1991. This work, titled ECHOES was exhibited in Face of Europe at the Derby Festival in 1992. She has exhibited regularly, with solo shows at the Picture House, Leicester, The Harley Gallery, Welbeck, the Arbor, Derby, The Special Photographer's Gallery, and Coningsby Gallery, London. In 1996 she was sponsored by Virgin Airways for a solo exhibition at the Lan Kwai Fong Gallery in Hong Kong. A previous visit to Hong Kong inspired CONSUMING PASSIONS which is a still life series of images exploring notions of consumerism. She has received commissions for book jacket from publishers such as Chatto Windus, Heinemann, Vintage, Harper Collins, Jonathan Cape and also Decca Records. Her work was included in the Association of Illustrators IMAGES 23 Exhibition at the Royal College of Art in 1999. In 1999, she worked with the Iris Women's Photography project in 1999, and was involved in curating SHIFTING FOCUS exhibitions and publication. She continues to lecture in photography at Staffordshire University and is working with the local Bosnian community on an arts project for an exhibition at City Arts Nottingham in November 2001. Maggy Milner is represented by IRIS - International Center for Women in Photography. |
