Russell Mills

Born Ripon, Yorkshire, 1952.
Russell Mills has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions globally, created site-specific multimedia installations, videos and soundworks for film and radio. He has designed sets and lighting for some of the most innovative performers of the last twenty years including Siobhan Davies Dance Company, London Contemporary Dance Theatre, Wire, Jan Gabarek, the Hilliard Ensemble, John Surman and Terry Riley. He has also produced award winning album covers and influential book covers for Samuel Beckett, Brian Eno, Michael Brook, Gavin Bryars, Harold Budd, the Cocteau Twins, Miles Davis, Roger Eno, Peter Gabriel, Djivan Gasparyan, Hugo Largo, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Milan Kundera, Bill Laswell, Bob Marley, Ian McEwan, Nine Inch Nails, Youssou N'Dour, Michael Nyman, Jayne Anne Phillips, David Sylvian, Graham Swift, Toru Takemitsu, David Toop and Hector Zazou.

Since 1990 he has collaborated with the artist Ian Walton on contextually anchored, site-specific installations. These include Ember Glance: The Permanence of Memory (1990), F-Go Soko, Tokyo (with David Sylvian), Soundings (1995), Green Park Station Vaults, Bath, for the Bath Festival, Measured in Shadows (1996), Tullie House Museum and Ci...

1970-71 Canterbury College of Art
1971-74 Maidstone College of Art
1974-77 Royal College of Art

Individual exhibitions and installations

1980 Fine Lines, Thumb Gallery, London
1983 returns an echo ..., Curwen Gallery, London
returns an echo ..., Abbot Hall Art Gallery & Museum, Kendal, Cumbria
1986 Ciphers, Curwen Gallery, London; Metropole Arts Centre, Folkestone
1987 enter the Silences (North the Light), Parco Space 5, Tokyo, Japan
1989 Silent Systems, Curwen Gallery, London
Planet and Glow-Worm, Visual Arts Museum, New York
1990 Sixteen Shimmers (& Shadows Surrender), Parco Space 5, Tokyo
Sixteen Shimmers (& Shadows Surrender), Kirin Plaza, Osaka, Japan
1991 Within Without, Huntington Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
RSC Works, (Commissions for the Royal Shakespeare Company), Royal Shakespeare Company,
Stratford-Upon Avon and the Barbican Centre, London
The Possible Slow Fuse, Pentagram Gallery, London
1997 Material: Seven Souls, Angel Orensanz Foundation for the Arts, New York; light sculpture installation
1998 Trace Elements, Base Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2002 Moth, The Lighthouse, S...

Forward To Far: From Schwitters To Now, Armitt Museum & Library, Ambleside, Cumbria, 2010 (with Ian Walton
Sedition: An Uprising of Cumbrian Artists, Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle, Cumbria