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Tanja Milbourne

A bit over ten years ago, in response to a cancer diagnosis, Tanja Milbourne began a photography series seeking to express how life feels in its most uncertain, suspended moments. Capturing dancers in poised suspension, where movement and stillness seem momentarily inseparable, these images sought to explore how the human body, held between ascent and descent, can express states of being beyond language. Then, during a period when treatments left her unable to work with the camera, an unexpected practice emerged: drawing. Originating as meditation, this process unfolded intuitively, as Milbourne surrendered to the dialogue between conscious intent and the agency of the process and mediums. The resulting linework evokes organic forms and topographies - fine, flowing patterns that shift between surface and depth, echoing natural systems and movement. Over time, the two practices began to speak to one another. Drawing directly onto photographic prints transformed the earlier figures - once suspended in a void - into beings enveloped by delicate, organic networks. These lines suggest a profound shift: from isolation to belonging, from uncertainty to trust. The dancers are now infinitely held - by spirit, universe, nature, mycelial network, the field or whatever name we give to the unseen forces that sustain us.

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Undulating Breath

Tanja Milbourne

Black metallic ink Drawing on hot pressed watercolour paper

36.9 x 26.9 cm

$900.00

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Rise With Grace – limited edition 1/42

Tanja Milbourne

Photography on Print on satin paper

31.6 x 31.6 cm

$770.00

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Assemblé Lacccaria (Infinitely Held)

Tanja Milbourne

Mixed Media on Mixed Media, Photographic Print on satin paper, Hand drawn white pigment ink

122.5 x 84.7 cm

$8,800.00

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Tanja Milbourne

Undulating Breath

Rise With Grace – limited edition 1/42

Assemblé Lacccaria (Infinitely Held)