Harland
Miller
Best known for his reimaginings of vintage Penguin book jackets, British artist Harland Miller’s paintings are imbued with his personal, unique brand of dark humour. Buy and sell original prints and editions by leading artist Miller. We can value your print for free, with zero obligation to sell and offer market advice on any work in Miller's portfolio.
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Biography
Writer and painter Harland Miller is best known for his recreations of Penguin book jackets and for his mischievous, often dark, sense of humour. Characterised by an undercurrents of satire and self-depreciation, Miller’s art explores the relationship between word and image to comment on the frequent disconnect between representation and reality.
Miller was born on 11 March 1964 in North Yorkshire. His father bought and collected books, hoping to find a rare first edition among old car manuals and magazines ('he never did,' said Miller). But books would become a recurring theme in Miller’s life: 'I suppose I experienced at that young age high culture and low culture together before I could make any difference between them,' the artist later said. Famed for his prints and paintings, Miller began his career as a writer, publishing two novels in 2000. Now, his fictional Penguin covers give him the 'pleasure to imagine a book I had already written and then painting it'.
Miller's parodies of classic Penguin book covers like Fuck Art Let's Dance, combine Pop Art motifs with the brushstrokes of Abstract Expressionism to create a new work that is simultaneously humorous and nostalgic, on a monumental scale. The inspiration for the series came as the artist found a box of old Penguin books in a second-hand bookshop in Paris. It was an 'eureka moment'. Now, the instantly recognisable covers are a vehicle for Miller’s satirical messages and witty puns.
Since then, Miller’s work has been everywhere – a testament to his international success. Following a Writer in Residence position at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in Boston in 2002, Miller curated his first major group exhibition, ‘You Dig The Tunnel, I’ll Hide The Soil,’ in 2008 for White Cube, London, featuring works by Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst and Jake and Dinos Chapman.
More exhibitions quickly followed. In 2009, Miller had a solo exhibition at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, titled ‘Don’t Let The Bastards Cheer You Up’. His first exhibition in Amsterdam took place in 2010: ‘I’ll Never Forget What I Can’t Remember’ at Reflex Amsterdam. In 2016, Miller had his first exhibition in Berlin, ‘Tonight We Make History (P.S. I Can’t Be There)’, then three years later saw his first solo exhibition in Hong Kong. In 2020 Miller held a solo exhibition at York Art Gallery. ‘York, So Good They Named It Once’, centred around Miller’s childhood memories of Yorkshire. 'I think the majority of people have a love-hate relationship with their hometown… and I think I do too, but just without the hate,' said the artist.
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