Harland Miller

Artist and writer Harland Miller’s polychromatic and graphically vernacular paintings and works on paper are informed by an approach to language drawn from his early life in the North of England. Miller’s work synthesizes references from both high and low culture, spanning literature, music, self-help manuals and medieval iconography. Attesting to his engagement with the narrative, aural and typographical possibilities of language, Miller says ‘People read before they can stop themselves, it’s automatic. Words are a way into what you’re looking at, but no matter how integrated the text is, no matter how much you might think it’s synthesized into the work, there is this imbalance in terms of how much the words are doing as words.'