STUDIO 325: Harland Miller

Harland Miller is a British writer and artist, who has recently exhibited his 'Love for Sale' series at Other Criteria in London. In 2005, Other Criteria was founded as a publishing company by Damien Hirst, Hugh Allan and Frank Dunphy. Now their gallery in New Bond Street sells the work of renowned contemporary artists such as Fiona Banner, Banksy and Tracy Emin.
Miller studied fine art at the Chelsea College of Art & Design before moving to New York and then Berlin. His debut album, 'Slow Down Arthur' achieved critical claim at the beginning of 2000. In 2002 he became the Writer in Residence at the ICA, creating events drawn from his love of both literature and fine art. In 2003, the White Cube Gallery in London hosted his first one-man show, titled 'To Jean- A Small Memento of a Great Effort'. Miller combined his passion for literature and art by producing a series of paintings based of the dust jackets of Penguin books. Showing influences of Pop Art, abstraction and figurative painting, these beautiful pieces combine the motif of the Penguin book, with hilarious, absurd or melancholy phrases. Miller's technique gives the painting a sense of nostalgia from well-loved dog-eared Penguin classics.
Harland Miller is currently living and working in London, whilst adapting one of his books with the British Film Council and writing for the Observer and Guardian.