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Lisa Milroy

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Lisa Milroy was born in Vancouver, Canada and lives and works in London, UK. Milroy has worked at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL since 2009 and as Guest Advisor at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam since 1994. Milroy won First Prize in the John Moores Painting Prize in 1989 and was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in 2005. She was Artist Trustee of Tate from 2013-2017 and Liaison Trustee to the National Gallery 2015-2017. In 2015 Milroy initiated Hands On Art Workshops with the support of Vodafone Foundation and UNHCR, delivering a programme of practical art workshops through video conference for school children in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya. In 2018, Parasol unit presented Here & There: Paintings by Lisa Milroy. This solo exhibition brought together a selection of work from the previous fifteen years to explore Milroy’s approach to still life through the lens of stillness and movement, presence and absence, making, looking, touch and transformation – recurrent critical perspectives in her practice. Milroy paintings are held in many public collections, including Tate, UK, Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan, Frac Occitanie Montpellier, France, Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA and East African Visual Arts Trust, Kenya.

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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Lisa Milroy - Weaving (green-yellow), 2016 - Mixed media - 36h x 36w cm
Weaving (green-yellow), 2016 - Mixed media - 36h x 36w cm
Lisa Milroy - Letter/Writing, 2003 - Oil and acrylic on canvas - 132h x 106.50w x 3.50d cm
Letter/Writing, 2003 - Oil and acrylic on canvas - 132h x 106.50w x 3.50d cm
Lisa Milroy - Weaving (rose), 2017 - Oil on canvas - 148.50h x 125.50w x 4d cm
SOLD - Weaving (rose), 2017 - Oil on canvas - 148.50h x 125.50w x 4d cm
Lisa Milroy - Butterfly I -  Etching on paper - 30h x 30w cm
Butterfly I - Etching on paper - 30h x 30w cm
Lisa Milroy - Butterfly III -  Etching on paper - 30h x 30w cm
Butterfly III - Etching on paper - 30h x 30w cm
Lisa Milroy - Coin I - Etching on paper - 30h x 30w cm
Coin I - Etching on paper - 30h x 30w cm
Lisa Milroy - Coin V - Etching on paper - 30h x 30w cm
Coin V - Etching on paper - 30h x 30w cm
Lisa Milroy - Rock III - Etching on paper - 30h x 30w cm
Rock III - Etching on paper - 30h x 30w cm
Lisa Milroy - Rock IV - Etching on paper - 30h x 30w cm
Rock IV - Etching on paper - 30h x 30w cm

Exhibitions

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020
Ensemble/Together – Peintures de Lisa Milroy, FRAC Occitanie Montpellier, Montpellier, France
Wearing and Staring: YANAGI Miwa and Lisa MILROY, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
around the home, ‘still life’ photo-essay project presented on Instagram during Covid-19
Same & Different, One Off Contemporary Art Gallery, Nairobi, Kenya – date TBC/postponed due to Covid-19
taking the side of things, m2 Gallery, London, UK – date TBC/ postponed due to Covid-19

2018
Here & There: Paintings by Lisa Milroy" - Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London 
​Handmade - Paintings by Lisa Milroy, One Off Contemporary Art Gallery, Nairobi, Kenya

2017

Stephenie Bergman and Lisa Milroy: Tango, Sassoon Gallery, Folkestone, UK. 

2016
Out of Hand, Laure Genillard Gallery, London, UK
Cloth, Mansun Farm/The Retreat, Ahmedabad, India

Selected Group Exhibitions
2020

In the Moment, Beningbrough Hall, Gallery and Gardens, York, UK
Red, One Off Contemporary Art Gallery, Nairobi, Kenya
O Sole Mio, Parasol unit for contemporary art, London, UK
Ikon in the 1990s, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
New Collections in the Museum, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
The Other Side of the Coin, Roche Court New Art Centre, Salisbury, Wiltshire UK
RA Summer Exhibition 2020, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK

2019
The Best of the Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
RA Summer Exhibition 2019, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK

2018
Modern Art Revisited, Tottori Prefectural Museum, touring to Museum of Modern Art, Saitama; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art; Yokosuka Museum of Art; the Japan Association of Art Museums, Japan
Treasures from the Home, Blaafarvevaerket (Cobalt Works and Mines), Oslo, Norway (catalogue)
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Le Rêve de la Fileuse, Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France
Criminal Ornamentation: Yinka Shonibare MBE curates the Arts Council Collection, Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester, touring to Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter; Longside Gallery, Wakefield; Southampton City Art RA Summer Exhibition 2018, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK

​2017
Meticulous Observations and Naming the Money, works selected by Lubaina Himid from the Arts Council Collection, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Horizons, CCAS de Besancon, Logement-Foyer les Cedres, Besancon, France
RA Summer Exhibition 2017, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
 
2016
Art at the British Academy: Lisa Milroy, (on-going display), British Academy, London, UK
Painting in Time: Part 2, SAIC Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, USA
Seeing Round Corners, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK
RA Summer Exhibition 2016, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK

Awards, Juries, Residencies and Commissions

2015 - 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

Press

Business 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
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