Milhazes has created an exclusive handmade collaged edition of 40 works. Comprising 44 individual cut papers, the petal and leaf forms, together with the highly charged colour palette, resonate with the tropical fauna found in the botanical garden close to her studio. Milhazes has long incorporated natural forms into her work, increasingly taking inspiration from her local environment in Rio – from the surrounding rainforest to the Atlantic coastline – to centre her compositions on the cycles of renewal found in the natural world.
This is the third artist edition to be published by Turner, proceeds of which will provide essential support for the gallery’s future exhibition and learning programmes, enabling free access to art for all.
‘Milhazes has long incorporated natural forms into her work, increasingly taking inspiration from her local environment in Rio’
About the artist
Widely recognised as one of the leading abstract artists working today, Milhazes is known for creating intensely colourful, large-scale abstract paintings and collages that celebrate a myriad of influences from nature and architecture to art history.
Collage has been integral to Milhazes' practice since the outset of her career in the 1980s, when she first incorporated paper cut-outs, fabric and lengths of ribbon into her paintings. The introduction of her unique monotransfer technique (the layering of individual dried painted motifs on canvas) in 1989 allowed her to continue the principle of collage but with painted forms of her own making. In 2003, Milhazes returned to creating collages using papers and materials she collects, with several featured in her exhibition at Turner. By layering and combining varied materials – from sweet wrappers to shiny packaging and decorative marbled papers, Bolha de Sabão [Soap Bubble], 2024 embodies a visual journal reflecting Milhazes’ travels and daily life.
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