Liz Miller's Blog

Hampstead Heath Affordable Art Fair Mural

2011-12-31T06:36:00.001-08:00

For 4 days in October 2011, I taught workshops in relief printing for visitors at the Affordable Art Fair on Hampstead Heath. The print blocks were made by scratching into drypoint paper plates or foamprint and then printed on a specially made garden roller printing press.
A selection of the prints were collaged together to create a mural which was then given to the Royal Free Hospital in North London.

Bainbridge Open 2011

2011-10-31T10:26:00.000-07:00

This October The Great Storm II (one of a set of collaborative prints by Howard and Liz Miller) was exhibited in The Bainbridge Open, South London.

Bite Original Print Exhibition: Mall Galleries

2011-10-31T10:03:00.000-07:00

This summer The Great Lake (a collaboration between Liz and Howard Miller) was exhibited in Bite at the Mall Galleries, Pall Mall, London.



Wednesday 24 August to Saturday 3 September 2011, Mall Galleries BITE is Mall Galleries' brand new contemporary printmaking exhibition, showcasing the most exciting prints by artists working in a range of different printmaking methods. The exhibition features work by Damien Hirst, Sir Peter Blake RA, Michael Craig-Martin, Patrick Hughes, Gary Hume, Tony Bevan, Stephen Chambers RA, John Hoyland and Barbara Rae RA, alongside outstanding prints submitted to the gallery through open competition. Original prints have always been a fantastic way to furnish empty walls at affordable prices and BITE promises a broad range of printmaking techniques, ranging from etchings and screenprints to woodcuts and digital prints – something for all tastes and price brackets. This year's exhibition has been selected by renowned print world experts: Chris Orr, Royal Academician and ex-Professor of Printmaking at the Royal College of Art; Richard Noyce, Curator of the 4th International Print Exhibition in Istanbul 2011; Barton Hargreaves, Royal Academy Schools Epson Print Research Fellow; Brad Faine, Managing Director of Coriander Studio, and Paul Coldwell, Professor at CCW, University of the Arts, London.

Inside A Bubble

2011-06-27T12:43:00.000-07:00

PRIVATE VIEW 4 July, 6.00 - 9.00 pm

Medcalf Gallery

38-40 Exmouth Market, London EC1R 4QE

Show Continues 20 June - 21 August 2011

(Mon - Sat 12.00 - 11.00 pm,

Sun 12 .00 - 4.00 pm)

INSIDE A BUBBLE In a transient and turbulent world, we try to create order out of the chaos by constructing our own individual realities. In this exhibition, three visual narratives explore the coping mechanisms and behavioural patterns of people sensitive to their current surroundings. Ideas about isolation, reconstruction and adaption within these constructed environments are expressed in the work.

The exhibition features the work of Áine Cassidy, Liz Mller and Howard Miller & Welmoet Wartena

The Great Lake project

2011-06-27T12:16:00.000-07:00

The Great Lake is a collaborative project with my brother Howard Miller.
Here is a brief outline of the theme and concept:

The Great Lake is a fictional location where a city has been built on the edge of a frozen lake. The inhabitants skate across the frozen water with barges to fish through holes in the ice. The patterns in the image are generated and dictated by following the rules of human nature, as they would act in this imagined scenario. The paths of movement across the ice lake are built up by the psychology of following previous tracks or consciously going in a different direction. In this way each mark is affected by the previous one to colonize the paper creating a cumulative, open ended pattern that is on the one hand familiar, human, collective and organic and on the other remote, lonely and cold.

Graphite, Indian ink, spray paint and eraser were used on both sides of a sheet of tracing paper, which was then photocopied onto a separate sheet of tracing paper and the process repeated over and over to achieve a deep and layered yet 2D effect that is like looking through a sheet of frozen ice, or at layers of sediment deposits. The drawings were then printed using a photo-polymer etching technique which further compacts and intensifies the existing layers by adding new material on top - like a fresh layer of snow.

London Print Studio Show Opening

2009-12-01T07:04:00.000-08:00

London Print Studio - Open Studio Show
Friday 4th December 6pm - 9pm
425 Harrow Road, London, W10 4RE
www.londonprintstudio.org.uk

An open studio exhibition showing recent work by the London Print Studio Staff.
Currently, I am half way through my internship at the London Print Studio (Sept. '09 - March '10).

Music Map Hand Book

2009-12-01T07:00:00.000-08:00

Hand book detailing to process of my Music Map project.
Made to accompany my MA degree show in July 2009.

Oração

2009-06-26T06:39:00.001-07:00

A Maré Ta Cheia

2009-06-26T06:37:00.000-07:00

Two Plate Etching
45 x 45 cm
Plate one: Vapor-Jet and Aqua Tint
Plate two: Soft Ground

Plan for part three of A Maré Ta Cheia

2009-06-26T06:32:00.000-07:00

Beach Sculpture photographs

2009-06-26T06:11:00.000-07:00

More photographs from the beach scultpure project.

Thank you so much everyone who took part in the event:
Howard Miller, Misty Hay, Jennifer Li, Hector Barraclough, Aileen Orr, Ellie Heath, Matt Wilkes, Gemma Cuningham, Cicely Birkett-Jones, and all their friends who got involved.

A special thank you to Laurent Haquin for his stuning photgraphs.

Gullane Beach Project

2009-05-14T09:00:00.001-07:00

Saturday April 4th 2009

Gullane Beach, East Lothian, Scotland

A sight-specific, temporary sculpture with a team of approximately 15 people.

The first attempt at building A Mare ta Cheia on a beach.

Although the amazingly dedicated team did an incredible job, we were ultimatley rained off and couldn't complete the project.

However, we will be back with an already clued-up team, a slicker design and better weather.

A Mare Ta Cheia Etching

2009-05-14T08:55:00.000-07:00

3/4 A Mare Ta Cheia

2 plate etching (hard ground, soft ground and aquatint)

35 x 35 cm

The colours, line tone and textures are beginning to work here. Yet there is so much control in this image, I need to experiment with these techniques and let the process open up and breath more.

Oracao Drawing

2009-05-14T08:53:00.000-07:00

Origonal drawing for Oracao

Oracao Litho

2009-05-14T08:45:00.000-07:00

Detail of Oracao

The title Oracao is taken from the song Oracao Mestre Toni Vargas from the album Saudade

Plate Lithograph

52 x 54 cm

There are a couple of things that are not working here:

The delicate lines of the drawn plans for this graphic score have been lost along the way to producing this print. I think the delicacy of line was retained better in etching.

The yellow is way too strong. The sublty of the blues in previous prints worked much better.

MCML Litho

2009-05-14T08:40:00.000-07:00

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence 1/4

Photo Lithograph

20 x 20 cm

MCML Plan

2009-04-21T08:47:00.000-07:00

The original plan of graphic score taken from the first section of Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence by Ryuichi Sakamoto.

Both the Bass and the Treble are plotted.

From this plan I will produce a series of prints that will be part of my Sound Map series.

Lithography Prints

2009-04-21T08:40:00.000-07:00

Two Lithographs from the Sound Map series - 20 x 20 cm.

Both are the left hand of the first section of Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence.

Together they make up the harmony of the bass cleff.

Etching

2009-04-21T08:35:00.000-07:00

Hardground Etching

20 x 20 cm

Also a Sound Map from the second section of Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence but this time for the left hand - the bass cleff.

Hardground Etching

2009-04-21T08:12:00.000-07:00

Hardground Etching

20 x 20 cm

One of the first prints from my Sound Map series.

This Sound Map is from the second section of Merry Christams Mr Lawrence by Ryuichi Sakamoto.