Rootless | new paintings

Flowering and seeding -2018
Flowering and seeding | 2018 | oil on linen | 214 x 183 cm
Studio 2018 - work in progress
Studio | 2018 | Work in progress

Art Space Gallery | London


Rootless | new paintings
22nd Feb 29th March 2019

"We live our lives inscrutably included within the streaming mutual life of the universe"
Martin Buber “I and Thou” (1923)

Rootless | new paintings


New large scale still life paintings.
Hardback publication with and essay by Martin Gayford. Available from
Art Space Gallery View PUBLICATION (2019)online | View PDF version

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PRESS RELEASE

Financial Times | Critics Choice Rootless | Art Space Gallery 2019 | Jackie Wullschlager | 17/2/19
Vessels Nature Morte REVIEW 03/09/16 : Financial Times | Critics Choice

The truth of the encounter Interview with Joanne Laws, Visual Arts Newsletter, March-April 2019






With the support of Culture Ireland

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Art Space Gallery | Michael Richardson Contemporary Art | London


6th September -15th October 2016


Sean Rainbird, Director of the National Gallery of Ireland writes, ‘This series is a personal response to the passing of life, to slowly letting go, while celebrating life’s fragility and tenacity. ....With this moving group of still lifes, Miller closes the circle of return to the place he left to start out on the road’.


The alliance of painting with remembrance is not new. In these paintings Nick Miller, draws on this facility to connect to his mother during her terminal illness in London. The key to the works are the vessels: vases and bottles that she had gathered around her in a lifetime; holding memory and meaning without sentimentality. Carried back to his studio after every visit to London to see his mother, they would be filled with whatever cuttings from nature were available and painted as a studio still-life. Miller describes the urgency of; ‘seeing the fullness of life before it passes. Making paintings this way offered some release in the face of transience and mortality, while still gambling on an afterlife in pigment itself’.


A 56 page catalogue includes a new text by the Irish author Colm Tóibín and an essay by Sean Rainbird.


View exhibition catalogue on-line


Art Space Gallery

Rootless | new paintings

Three vessels interior - 2018
Three vessels : Interior I | 2018 | oil on linen | 214 x 183 cm
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Rootless | Oliver Sears Gallery | Dublin

25th October 29th November 2018

Oliver Sears Gallery is delighted to present Nick Miller’s first exhibition at the gallery. Entitled Rootless, this selection of Still Life paintings continues the development of a theme that has been absorbing the artist for the past seven years.

Oliver Sears Gallery
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Catalogue | Selected Press



Art Space Gallery | Michael Richardson Contemporary Art | London


6th September -15th October 2016


Sean Rainbird, Director of the National Gallery of Ireland writes, ‘This series is a personal response to the passing of life, to slowly letting go, while celebrating life’s fragility and tenacity. ....With this moving group of still lifes, Miller closes the circle of return to the place he left to start out on the road’.


The alliance of painting with remembrance is not new. In these paintings Nick Miller, draws on this facility to connect to his mother during her terminal illness in London. The key to the works are the vessels: vases and bottles that she had gathered around her in a lifetime; holding memory and meaning without sentimentality. Carried back to his studio after every visit to London to see his mother, they would be filled with whatever cuttings from nature were available and painted as a studio still-life. Miller describes the urgency of; ‘seeing the fullness of life before it passes. Making paintings this way offered some release in the face of transience and mortality, while still gambling on an afterlife in pigment itself’.


A 56 page catalogue includes a new text by the Irish author Colm Tóibín and an essay by Sean Rainbird.


View exhibition catalogue on-line


Art Space Gallery

Rootless - links

Selected Press
Financial Times | Critics Choice Rootless | Art Space Gallery 2019 | Jackie Wullschlager | 17/2/19
Financial Times | Critics Choice Vessels: Nature Morte | Art Space Gallery 2016 | Jackie Wullschlager | 3/9/16
The truth of the encounter Interview with Joanne Laws, Visual Arts Newsletter, March-April 2019
Irish Times (pdf) | web | Art in Focus | Whitethorn Turning : by Nick Miller | Aidan Dunne | 13 Oct 2018
The Sunday Times (PDF) | Web | Rootless | John P O'Sullivan | 4 Nov 2018
The Gloss | Artistic License | 7th Nov 2018
Texts & Publications

Rootless (2018) - Oliver Sears Gallery)Publication (PDF)
Rootless PDF (2019) Art Space Gallery, London
Vessels-Nature Morte Publication (PDF)