Harland Miller is an artist and writer whose peripatetic career has included time spent in both Europe and America. After living and exhibiting in New York, Berlin and New Orleans during the ’80s and ’90s, Miller achieved critical acclaim with his debut novel, Slow Down Arthur, Stick to Thirty (2000), the story of a kid who travels around northern England with a David Bowie impersonator.

As a writer, Miller’s novels and short stories often take his autobiography as the point of departure. A love of books themselves, not only as the carriers of stories but as objects in their own right, equally pervades his artistic practice. In his paintings and works on paper Miller regularly sets up the potential for narratives, characterised by their humanity and tragi-comedy, using titles, phrases or single words to echo or allow for multiple readings.

Harland Miller is a cross between artist and writer, whose sharp commentary and literary sensibility effortlessly weave their way into paintings and prints. Regardless of whether you want to love, begrudge, or envy him, some will call it like it is, and Harland Miller has totally established a place no one else has in the contemporary art market. His applications and harnessing of books as canvases, irony into beauty, and nostalgia into a twisting lens of cultural commentary. In the years that were spent in New Orleans, New York, and Berlin during the late 80s and early 90s, Miller made a leap into fiction with the acclaimed novel Slow Down Arthur, Stick to Thirty (2000), an absurd tale of a young boy and a David Bowie impersonator travelling across Northern England. Even back to Miller’s themes of books, as literal places to tell narratives, and as culturally important as a physical object, a book. Through a new perspective to highlight Miller’s printed Penguin format mixing highbrow and pop with tragic comedic underpinnings. Today Miller is a blue-chip artist, and his editions and originals have people falling more and more in love with them (and ultimately the collecting and investing worldwide). Shop from our collection of Harland Miller artworks for sale, including inexpensive art editions through to monumental pieces of self-aware art!

## About Harland Miller

Harland Miller, born in Yorkshire in 1964, studied at Chelsea College of Art and soon found himself establishing dual careers in the arts as artist and writer. He travelled a lot in the early years, exhibiting in Europe and America, and having residencies in New York and Berlin. In 2000, Miller published his first novel, Slow Down Arthur, Stick to Thirty, which discussed autobiographical and cultural themes still relevant to his work and vision. Miller has secured his place in the history of contemporary art by the pairing of literature and painting, and with the most significant means through his humour, irony, and self-deprecation, allowing his audience to suspend belief. Major exhibitions at White Cube, York Art Gallery, and international fairs have established his role as one of the most unique voices in British art. His work is included in both public and private collections, and is known for its immediacy and ability to combine art with literature and cultural criticism.


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