Highly celebrated figurative and still life painter Lewis Miller was born in Melbourne in 1959 and trained at the Victorian College of the Arts, where he also completed his post graduate studies. He exhibits regularly at Australian Galleries in Melbourne and Sydney and at Bruce Heiser Projects in Brisbane.
Miller has earned national recognition for his work in portraiture. He was awarded the Hugh Ramsay Portrait Prize in 1981, and in 1998 won the prestigious Archibald Prize with a huge portrait of his friend and fellow artist, Allan Mitelman. Other noteable awards include the Sporting Portrait Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 2000, the James Farrell Self Portrait Award at the Castlemaine City Art Gallery in 2007 and the Belle Arti-Chapman & Bailey Art Award in 2010. Most recently, Miller won the Rick Amor Self Portrait Prize in 2017.
He has also undertaken a number of commissioned portraits, including Nobel Laureate Dr James Dewey Watson, co-discoverer of the double helix, Everest explorer Sir Edmund Hillary, Sidney Baillieu Myer AC, the Honorable Justice Kim Santow OAM and Robert French Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia.
In 2003, Lewis Miller was appointed Official Australian Artist to the conflict in Iraq by the Australian War Memorial. The artist spent three weeks in the Middle East where he recorded the services of the RAN, the RAAF, the Army and Special Forces.
Miller’s work is represented in private and public collections in Australia and overseas, including the National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, National Gallery of Victoria, Australian War Memorial, National Portrait Gallery Canberra, Auckland War Memorial Museum, Karolyi Foundation Vence, France Bibliotheque Nationale de France and the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York.
PAST EXHIBITIONS
This years’ Artists For Kids Culture Art Auction will include artworks by Rosalind Atkins, Rona Green, Martin King, Lewis Miller, …
Image: Martin King John Wolseley old master Australian Galleries are thrilled to announce Graeme Drendel, Martin King, Lewis Miller and …
Image above: Rodney Pople Self portrait after Courbet (2) Congratulations to Graeme Drendel, Martin King, Lewis Miller, Paul S. Miller …
Image above: Martin King once willing, NOT NOW 2022 graphite, watercolour, pigment, gouache on drafting film and paper 108 x …
Image above: Greg Johns Transfigure 2006 Corten steel edition 5 240 x 57 x 40 cm Sculptor, Greg Johns’ work, …
Image above: Raymond Arnold To see the bones and the tombstone at once / Huon pine 2022 oil on canvas …
Image above: Ayako Saito Artemis Bow 2021 steel, painted 29 x 51 x 37 cm Congratulations to Sue Anderson, Ron …
Image above: Martin King tree of life, unsuccessful species 2021 etching, dry point, chine colle and hand colouring edition 3 168 …
Image above: The two intaglio plates Graeme has been working on for the print commission Congratulations to Graeme Peebles who …
Image above: Mary Tonkin Hot Kiss, Kalorama 2021 oil on linen 183 x 214 cm Congratulations to Mary Tonkin who …
Above Image: Peter Wegner (right) pictured with subject Sylvia Drager (centre) at Benalla Art Gallery 2022 Peter Wegner continues …
Image above: Mechanic 2021 mohair tapestry in collaboration with Marguerite Stephens edition 1/6 261 x 281 cm We are delighted to …
Image above: Wayne Viney Little Horn, Cradle Mountain 2021 monotype unique 17.5 x 27.5 cm Wayne Viney Landscapes Tasmania 2- …