I moved to Cornwall from London mid pandemic. the change to being in a rural environment, though I have always craved nature is a shock I am still processing, The overwhelming presence of nature and being surrounded by so many different greens (Cornwall is very wet thus verdant) has been something that I am responding to in my work.
I am considering myself in nature and the relationships between organisms and surroundings, the unseen, the spiritual, and the unquantifiable are present.
There is something ‘other’ that we as humans respond to when confronted by the natural world, being at the periphery of nature of myth, legend, history, and memory.
Melanie Miller
Education
1987 Maidstone College of Art B.A hons Fine Art.
2002 Wimbledon School of Art M.A in Painting.
Solo Exhibitions:
2024 ‘Understory:Sous-Etage’ Salon Vert Geneva Switzerland
2023 ‘New-Unknown’ Long and Ryle London
2020 ’Finite Things Long and Ryle . London
2020 Solace ‘Solace 2020’ an online exhibition of lockdown paintings. Long and Ryle London
2018 ‘The Form Of Things Unknown’ Le Salon Vert Geneva Switzerland
2014 ‘Natural History’ Long and Ryle.London February
2011 ‘Close: Still’ Millenium St Ives June
2010 ‘Moth Boy and Bees’ Long and Ryle. London September
2009 ‘Small Truths’ Millennium St Ives October
Selected recent exhibitions include:
2025 ‘All Small” Pamela Salisbury Gallery Hudson New York.
2024 ‘Understory: snakes, snails and the forest floor” Pamela Salisbury Gallery New York.
2023 Contemporary British Painting Prize Huddersfield Art Gallery
2023 Contemporary British Painting Prize Thameside Gallery London
2021 ‘Model:Maquette’ Cello Factory London
2021 “Landscape:Unstiled Life” Darl E and the Bear Woodstock
2020 ‘The Seventh View” C24 gallery New York
2020’Wells Art Contemporary. Wells Cathedral Somerset.
2019 ‘Forgotten Landscapes’ . Long and Ryle London
2018 ‘Seen Unseen’ an exhibition with five painters and the poet. Alice Oswald, Long and Ryle London
2002-2024 Royal Academy Summer exhibition
2002-2019 ‘The Discerning Eye’ Mall galleries, London
2009-17 “Columbia Threadneedle Prize” (Shortlisted 2009)
Competitions:
2024 Finalist Contemporary British Painting prize
2017 Finalist Threadneedle Painting Prize
Art Fairs:
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair
London Original
London Art Fair
Art Miami
London Art Fair
International Print Fair
20/21 art Fair
BADA
Residencies:
2019 KIRA: Kingsbrae International residency for the Arts Canada
Recent Commissions:
2024: Wine abel for Special edition year of the snake. Castiglion Del Bossco Brunello