This series brings together six figurative paintings that move between spontaneity and deliberation. Gestural, responsive mark-making sits alongside an attention to light, colour, and structure. The work considers how the formal language of painting can contain or intensify the intimacy of the nude.

The images are drawn from personal moments, leaning into a sense of exposure. They hold fragments of lived experience: private, tender and awkward, moving between incidental encounters and explicitly charged ones without distinction. This body of work traces something both specific and shared: a sensual, tactile awareness of the body.

Milla Weideman is an artist based on Boonwurrung Country (Mornington Peninsula), Victoria. Her practice is rooted in observational painting, drawing from familiar spaces and personal relationships. Her work is shaped by a negotiation between perception and expression, holding elements of formal design in tension with gesture and ambiguity. In 2024, she received the inaugural No Vacancy Annual Award.