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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ExhibitionsSelected 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)
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 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