Lewis Miller (Australian artist)

Lewis Miller (born 1959 in Melbourne) is an Australian painter and visual artist, known for his portraits and figurative works. His father Peter Miller was a painter in the social realist tradition. His sister Lisa Miller is an Australian singer-songwriter.

Lewis studied painting at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne from 1977 to 1979, and then travelled to London, Europe and Malaysia. He held his first solo exhibition in 1986 and is represented in the National Gallery of Australia, state and private galleries. In 1998, he won the Archibald Prize,[1] which brought him greater prominence and led to many further commissions. He has travelled widely, including to the US in 1998, 2000, 2003 and 2005.

In 2003 and 2005, Miller was commissioned to produce a series of portraits of the scientists and technicians involved in the mapping of the human genome.[2]

His other commissioned portraits include Australian rules football coach Ron Barassi, mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary and scientist James D. Watson.[2] In 2003, he travelled to Iraq as Official Australian War Artist.[3]

By 2005, he had entered the Archibald prize 17 times and had been a finalist 13 times. He was interviewed in the 2005 Peter Berner documentary Loaded Brush.[4]

As of 2017, Miller has been a finalist in the Archibald prize 17 times.

Awards

References
  1. Archibald Prize 2008: Archibald Prize
  2. "Miller's travelling tales". The Age. Melbourne. 2 October 2003.
  3. "Painted soldiers". The Age. Melbourne. 1 March 2005.
  4. "Peter Berner's Loaded Brush". NFSA Online Shop. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
Awards
Preceded by
Nigel Thomson		 Archibald Prize
1998
for Portrait of Allan Mitelman No 3		 Succeeded by
Euan MacLeod
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