J Miller

Subject to my role as both a woman and a mother, the work derives from intimacy, however subjectivities are objectified as I blur narrative with abstraction; a focus on colour-making.

I’m interested in the spatial injunctions between
domesticity and the 'avant-garde', or normalised cultural associations, and so I both suggest and question basic assumptions within art culture, but also in the context of wider society.

Considering existential identity, and the Marxist idea that one is determined by circumstances; economic, social, and so on, my work acts as both a proposal into, and retreat from, the contemporary art world. I'm interested in the nature of retreat in this sense, as authors such as Herbert (Tell Them I Said No, 2016) suggest that a large part of the artist's role in today's professionalised art system is being 'present'.

Counteracting this, my most recent work mimics an alternative perspective: a minimal exploration of 'feminine' formalism, considering this existential theory and questioning basic assumptions and associations within the art world.

Much of the work is made by mixing traditional painting medium such as pigment, oil, synthetic polymer, with domestic materials such as household paint and arti...

2014-2017 First Class BA (Hons), Glasgow School of Art
2013-2014 Fine Art, West College Scotland

2017, Where Are They Now? DOK Artist Space, Edinburgh
2017, Degree Show, The Glasgow School of Art
2016, Serving Suggestion, The Glue Factory, Glasgow
2015, 2 Years Licked, Grace and Clarke Fyfe Gallery, Glasgow
2015, Print Lab, Tontine, Glasgow School of Art