Lisa Milroy
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Lisa Milroy was born in Vancouver, Canada and lives and works in London, UK. She graduated from Goldsmiths College in 1982, and was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in 2005. She has been Head of Graduate Painting at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL since 2009, and Guest Visitor at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam since 1994. Milroy won First Prize in the John Moores Painting Prize in 1989. She was Artist Trustee of Tate from 2013-2017 and Liaison Trustee to the National Gallery 2015-2017. Milroy has worked with the Vodafone Foundation’s Instant Network Schools since 2015, where she initiated “Hands On”, a practical art workshop programme that can be delivered through digital connectivity for school children in refugee camps. Tate Liverpool presented a survey exhibition of Milroy’s work in 2000. Milroy regularly exhibits her work on the national and international stage, and her paintings are held in many public and private collections.
Still life is at the heart of Milroy’s practice. In the 1980s her paintings featured ordinary objects depicted against an off-white background compositionally arranged in a grid or random scatter. In the 1990s her imagery expanded to include depictions of objects within settings, as well as landscape, architecture, people and storytelling. As her approaches to still life diversified, so did her manner of painting, giving rise to a range of stylistic innovations. In recent years Milroy’s focus has been on installation-based paintings that often feature a performative component. Throughout her practice, Milroy has been fascinated by the relation between stillness and movement, and the nature of making and looking at painting. |
Selection of Works
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Selected exhibitionsSolo Exhibitions
2018 - "Handmade", One Off Contemporary Art Gallery, Nairobi, Kenya 2018 - 17 Jan-18 March - "Here & There: Paintings by Lisa Milroy", Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London 2017 - “Stephenie Bergman and Lisa Milroy: Tango”, Sassoon Gallery, Folkestone, UK. 2016 - “Out of Hand”, Laure Genillard Gallery, London 2016 - “Cloth”, Mansun Farm, Kotarpur (The Retreat), Ahmedabad, India. Collaborative exhibitions 2018 - “Still Life” – Lisa Milroy and Jayne Parker at A.P.T Gallery, London 2018 - “Modern Art Revisited”, touring exhibition to Tottori Prefectural Museum; Museum of Modern Art, Saitama; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art; Yokosuka Museum of Art; the Japan Association of Art Museums, Japan 2018 - “Treasures from the Home”, Blaafarvevaerket (Cobalt Works and Mines), Amot, Norway. 2016 - A room of Milroy’s paintings was on view in the Collection display ‘Grosse Geister’ at Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany |
Awards, Juries, Residencies and Commissions2015 - Co-selector (with Richard Deacon) - Creekside Open 2015
2015 - Jury Member - RA Summer Exhibtion 2015: On-line A-Level Exhibition 2014 - Jury Member - John Moores Painting Prize China 2014 - Jury Member - Solo Art Award 2013 - Katara Foundation, Qatar - Residency 2013 - Jury advisor, Woon Art Prize 2012 - Jury Member, Art Fund Prize for Museums and Collections 2012 - Jury Member, Jerwood Drawing Prize 2012 - Shanghai University - Residency 2012 - University of Dhaka - Residency 2012 - London Review of Books, cover illustration: Vol. 34 No.4 23 Feb, 2012 PressBusiness Daily - 14-04-2018 - How home talent stands its ground
Business Daily - 14-04-2018 - GALLERIES: Refined riff on the act of creation… |
Lisa Milroy is exclusively represented in East Africa by One Off