Equilibrium & Flow | Solo Exhibition by Tanja Milbourne

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 moments of poised suspension, where movement and stillness seem momentarily inseparable. These images sought to explore how the human body, held between motion and stillness, can express states of being beyond language.

Then, during a period when treatment left them unable to work with the camera, an unexpected practice emerged: drawing. 

Originating as a meditative practice, Tanja allowed the process to unfold intuitively, embracing a dialogue between conscious intent and the agency of the medium.

The resulting intricate linework evokes organic forms and topographies — fine, flowing structures that seem to shift between surface and depth, almost like water in motion, becoming their own quiet meditation on life, nature and movement.