Artist Adrienne Millwood works with photography collections and photographic materials to create collages of images combining these with watercolour painting. She also creates large, colourful abstract paintings and installations utilising mirrors, light and paint.

These three works, presented as a triptych, were made using damaged polaroid paper. The artist took a photograph, exposing the polaroid, then, by pressing on the still-developing image, destroyed it. The deliberate pushing, subverting and testing of the photographic process in this way has resulted in abstract works, where elements of flowing emulsion have created unique forms, and pushes interpretation wide open.

Adrienne Millwood (born 1976) graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons) from University of Canterbury in 2012, a Graduate Diploma in Teaching in 2001 and a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology, University of Otago in 1997. Millwood has exhibited nationally and internationally, and her work is held in private and public collections, including the University of Canterbury. Millwood was awarded the Canterbury Arts & Heritage Trust Travel Award for 2014-15, subsequently becoming a board member, and the University of Canterbury Ethel Susan Jones Fine Arts Travelling Scholarship in 2014 and 2015. Millwood taught at The Learning Connexion, Lower Hutt from 2016-19.