An Opportunity to Learn from a Visionary Leader Reshaping the Art World
We’re delighted to announce an upcoming mentoring session with Millie Jason Foster of Gillian Jason Gallery – a gallery that has spent four decades championing female-identifying artists and challenging the white male canon that has long dominated the art world.
Gillian Jason Gallery works with female-identifying artists from across the generations to present engaging exhibitions about the most resonant ideas of our time. A combination of attuned cultural consciousness, people-first relationships, and a 40-year history of exhibiting work by pioneering artists makes GJG a go-to reference point for those looking to support and collect art from beyond the white male canon that addresses today’s critical shifts.
A Gallery Parallel to Modern Feminism
The development of the gallery runs parallel with that of modern feminism, a correlation that’s never far from curatorial considerations at GJG. As contemporary feminism progresses with increasingly inclusive awareness, the team continues to explore and evolve its own conceptions around what is most salient in art by women.
Outgoing and articulate, with a gift for understanding, Millie guides the gallery’s agile collaborative attitude, working with the historical expertise established by her grandmother, while continuously approaching things through a dynamic start-up mindset. Her background in investment banking and tech start-ups informs her efficiency and problem-solving skills, underlined by an eye for detail which applies as much to artworks as it does to operations.
A strategic thinker, she blends her relational approach with market-driven acumen, drawing excitement from emerging markets that, as she puts it, “should have been welcomed into the spotlight long ago and are incredibly important for local artists themselves.” For Millie, female art holds the power to drive change through the way people see, and in turn how they think.
This mentoring session offers a rare opportunity to gain insights from someone who combines historical knowledge with contemporary vision, strategic thinking with genuine passion for elevating female artists.
Currently at Gillian Jason Gallery
Just As I Remembered – Raine Storey 15 Jan – 14 Feb
Raine Storey’s latest body of work is driven by a sustained inquiry into the way we remember. The artist explores how images linger in the mind long after their details have begun to erode. Her paintings occupy the space between what is recalled and what is felt, examining how time reshapes our visual archive without diminishing its emotional weight. Rather than attempting to fix moments in clarity or realism, Storey embraces fragmentation, allowing memory to surface as layered impressions – partial, unstable, yet deeply resonant.
Working with oil paint and plaster on fibreglass, Storey constructs surfaces that feel simultaneously fragile and enduring. The materiality of the work is inseparable from its conceptual foundation. Each piece begins on the same large wooden board, layered repeatedly with paint and plaster. Fibreglass is then applied, bonding to these layers through resin. When the fibreglass is pulled away, it carries with it residue from the previous works – traces, scars, and fragments of earlier images. In this way, every artwork quite literally contains the history of the others. What one piece leaves behind, the next absorbs. The process mirrors Storey’s understanding of memory itself: time diminishes specificity, while the emotional imprint remains intact.