
Max Miller
Max Miller’s studies at Julian Ashton School gave him a love of the classical, tonality & line. His studies at St. Martins School of Arts, London, gave him a love of the abstract and also printmaking.
His heritage of country gave him a connection and love of wilderness, especially reinforced by the spirituality of his indigenous heritage. When Max MIller was young, he came into contact with the romanticism of early Arabic writing & poetry, and also became aware of the importance of art and culture of China, Japan & India, partly due to his travel and many visits to the British Museum, Victoria & Albert Museum and studying at an art school close to the National Gallery, London. Max Miller loves detail and spirituality of nature, both in the microcosm and the enormity of space, the awareness of the evolutions of all things past, present & future. He sees no reason why he should separate his studies of natural things and that of his abstract world. To him they are all of the same. Miller travels to inland Australia whenever possible each year and greatly love these voyages, which to him are mystic rambles. The travel and living in the bush are very, very special to him.
Max Miller is an Australian artist who has studied extensively both in Australia and internationally including the Julian Ashton School, the East Sydney Technical College, the American School of Arizona in Florence, the Hammersmith College of Art in London as well as completing a graduate diploma at St Martins College of Art, London. In 1978 he received the Victorian Arts Board grant to study at printmaking and papermaking workshops in Europe and Japan. Miller has exhibited widely in both solo and group exhibitions in Australia and overseas. He has won numerous prizes including Art Gallery of N.S.W. Wynne Trustees Watercolour Prize twice with the latest one in 2015 and he was a finalist in the Wynne Prize at Art Gallery of NSW in 2015 & 2016 . His work is in the collection of various public institutions including National Gallery of Australia, Australian National University, High Court and Parliament House, Canberra, New England Regional Art Museum and Artbank. Miller has produced print editions for other artists including Lloyd Rees, John Olsen, Arthur Boyd and Frank Hodgkinson.
Sophie Dunlop and Max Miller Art Gallery of NSW Wynne Prize Finalists 2016
Art Atrium Exhibition Opening – Max Miller – The Universe of Max Miller
Artwork
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Tantra 1987
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Origins ll 2005
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Very precious things 2005
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Ikuntji Country 2009
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Snowgums Perisher Valley 1991
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Elcho Island Studies I 2004
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Elcho Island Studies II 2004
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Artifacts in space time 1991
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Mountain temple 1985
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Gondwana land nocturne 1990
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Upper Snowy River 1980
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Flowers and shooting stars 1998
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Tears of Buddha 2009
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Near Arcoda Ck Tibooburra 2003
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Untitled (on the Todamachi Track) 1996
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Untitled (near Tsumago) 1996
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Untitled “Noh” series 1980
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Pure Land Mandala II 2003
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Henso, spirit country 2015
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Night sky with Noh clouds 1988
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Ziggurat 1983
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Western Paradise mirrored in a Billabong 2011
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Nourlangie Rock 1999
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Near Trephina Gorge 1999
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Manukala, Kakadu 1999
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East MacDonnell Ranges 1999
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Plums and tortoise 2008
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Creatures 2000
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Cape York & Kangaloon Studies 2004
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Mamukala Kakadu III 2007
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Near Verandah Cliff, Franklin River 1983
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Crossing up Snowy River 1990
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Hot Day, Ellery Creek, NT 1989
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Cliffs, Ormiston Creek, NT 1989
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Wiradjuri pathways 1994
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Coolabah near Coopers Creek 1989
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Formations of Gondwana with light spectrum 1993
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Black tent 1980
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Winter coming to spring 2011
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Small waterhole on the Ellery Creek NT 1989
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Southern Highlands studies and a fossil 2011
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Valley of the Springs West Gulf 1994
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Valley of the Springs West Gulf 1994 (soft ground etching for D9)
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Jamberoo Mountains 1982
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Sacred stone 1989
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Wiradjuri Campfire & Spirits
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For the love of our Southern Highlands...
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Flying Seeds, Wonga Vine
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Native Fig Tree and Vine
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Near Arcoola Creek – Tibooburra
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Pure Land Mandala l
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Old Gulch, Lord Howe Island
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Shrine
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Meoto Iwa
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Hagi Teahouse
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Sofukuji, Nagasaki
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Arita – Yama
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Frog & Butterfly
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Startled Herron
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Under the Willow Tree – Itchy Nose
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Wild Rose
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Kangaroo Apple
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Supurb Parrot
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Studies – Barran Grounds
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Apostle birds Mount Wood Tibooburra
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Butterflies & Moth - East Kangaloon
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Chiaroscuro II (diptych)
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Coopers Creek Idyll
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Corner Country, Mesa
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From Ubirr
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Gondwana Pure Land - teeming with life, then now and future - pure spirit
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Ikuntji Studies
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Kakadu Studies
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Merti Merti Sand dunes
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Muttawingee Country
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Near Nourlangie Rock
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Looking Towards Sacred Gorge of Rainbow Serpent
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Oshoka (diptych)
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Scrub Wren and Owl
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Sky Mandala
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Butterfly with gold leaf
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Everlastings & Butterflies
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Moth
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Messa Olive Downs
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Blue Argus and Other Studies
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Merti Merti Sand dunes
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Mt Sonder, Albert Namatjira and West Arrernte Country
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Ziggurats & Angels
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Again by the camp fire beneath the Southern Cross
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Landscape of Special Environmental Significance - Southern Highlands
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Pure Land
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The World of Dew
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A Bird on a Branch
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Bird & Lychees
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Morning Song
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The Melon Thief
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Fish
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Migration
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Plums & Tortoise
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Almalfi Coast
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Arthur's Olive Tree, Palaia
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Assisi Morning
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Chiesa di S.Martino Tarquinia (Sec XI)
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Ponte Vecchio, Florence
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Romanesque Ruin - Appia, Antica Roma
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Tuscan Hill Town, Palaia
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Ca d'Ora - Venetian Palace
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Versuvius from Naples, Neapolitan Gentleman: Vesuvio il mio Amici
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Etruscan Owl ed10
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Kakadu (with goanna & magpie geese)
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Lullawalla Gorge, Lawn Hill
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Mamukala Kakadu III
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Near the East Alligator River
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The Dreaded Blue Heeler
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Balmoral
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East Kangaloon & Ikuntji Studies
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Hey! "Proper Good one!" - "Perhaps?"
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Long Wait for Rain - Tibooburra
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Studies (diptych)
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Studies Tibooburra - Mt. Wood in Drought
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Uluru
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West Gulf Country
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Buddhist Fragments & Geometry
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