Viv Miller works with painting, drawing and animation and confidently employs both representational and abstract approaches to form her distinct imagery. She draws influences from the natural world and sublime landscapes along with computer graphics and cell animation, with recognisable inflections of Japanese, as well as Western traditions. Explaining how much of her recent work has focussed on the sun, she considers it as an omnipresent force which nonetheless cannot be looked at directly. The sun’s sublime qualities render it an impossible subject and therefore perfect for Miller’s painterly enquiries. Miller also explains that she has attempted to develop ways to represent more ethereal qualities in her work, like air and spaciousness. She makes no claim to having conquered these subjects, but instead allows them to provide a source upon which to develop modes of her own painterly expression.
Currently living in Melbourne, Miller completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Hons. 1) at the University of South Australia and a Master of Visual Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts, UMelb where she is currently undertaking a Master of Fine Arts. Miller was a co-founder of artist-run gallery Downtown Art Space in Adelaide and in 2005/06 undertook a two year studio residency at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces. Miller has exhibited with Neon Parc and Ryan Renshaw Gallery as well as a broad range of artist-run and government funded spaces. Her work is held in private collections in Australia and overseas as well as UBS, Brisbane; Artbank, Macquarie Group; Sydney and New York, BHP Billiton, Melbourne and Proclaim, Melbourne.
VIV MILLER
Buried 2015
oil and enamel on linen
38 × 32 cm
VIV MILLER
Cave - in 2015
oil on canvas
120 × 100 cm
VIV MILLER
Circle sun 2013
oil, enamel, and pencil, on canvas
80 × 60 × 3.5 cm
VIV MILLER
Variations 1 2013
oil and enamel on linen
56 × 46 cm
AUGMENTED REALITY
08 April – 19 May 2020
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9 ALMOST 10
31 August – 17 September 2016
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SPRING 1883
17 August – 21 August 2016
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INNERMOSTS
23 September – 17 October 2015
VIV MILLER
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18 March – 02 April 2015
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Born 1979, Melbourne, Australia
2013 Master of Fine Arts, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
2004 Master of Visual Arts, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
2000 Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours 1), University of South Australia
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John Neylon, 2019, 'Ramsay Art Prize winner Vincent Namatjira adds a new dimension to 'Captain Crook' art tradition', The Adelaide Review, July 12.
Sam Leach & Tony Lloyd, 2018, Analogue Art in a Digital World (catalogue), RMIT Gallery, Melbourne.
Larissa Hjorth, 2017, 'The art of games', in Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
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Acacia Collection, Melbourne
Artbank, Sydney
BHP Billiton, Melbourne
Fidelity, UK
Holmesglen Collection of Contemporary Art, Victoria Joyce Nissan Collection, Melbourne
Macquarie Bank, Sydney and New York
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
Proclaim, Melbourne
Scanlan and Theodore
UBS, Brisbane
Private collections