Kevin Miller: something hero something

Friday 7 October – Sunday 6 November 2016
Kevin Miller: People with Placards, 2015, acrylic on paper, 76 x 56cm | Kevin Miller: something hero something | Friday 7 October – Sunday 6 November 2016 | Royal Hibernian Academy

“I make paintings using computers and computer fabrication, really this is because I enjoy painting on computer. Painting on computer is beguiling and frictionless. It has an interesting, abbreviated relationship to (what I think of as) physically painting. It introduces a new experience and old questions regarding many of the basic concerns of painting and discourse on painting – things like colour, gesture and materiality. It also allows me to work without ‘filling in’ a rectangle, to escape from the canvas and a very small part of the ever present art historical baggage that accompanies painting.

The paintings are produced intuitively through a constant daily practice. They find their formal language in several places: in the wormy ‘brushstrokes’ and RGB colour-space of the tools, in art created for the digital screen such as computer games or GUIs and also in modernist abstract painters.

I feel there is an ever-present debate about the authenticity of digital painting –painting is often defined in terms of its relationship to materiality and the physical body, especially some of the painting I most enjoy. Eventually I make the paintings into physical objects – I fabricate them and here I may be staking out some sort of position in that debate for the time being.” Kevin Miller

Kevin Miller lives and works in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He is interested in painting using computers and 3d fabrication. He is a founding member of Cathedral Studios in the city and a graduate of Ulster of University in both MA Irish Visual Culture and BA Fine Art. He has exhibited regularly over the past 13 years in Ireland and Internationally. Exhibitions include: Instream, Queen Street Gallery, 2016 and University of Ulster Gallery Belfast, 2015, 185th RHA Annual, Dublin, 2015, Winter Group Show, Taylor Galleries, Dublin, 2013, Now Wakes the Sea, Kinsale Arts Festival, Kinsale, 2012, Eyesore, Solo exhibition, Marketplace Theatre, Armagh. He is recipient of a number of awards including Support for the Individual Artist Program, Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the RHA Tony O’Malley Residency.

Image: Kevin Miller: People with Placards, 2015, acrylic on paper, 76 x 56cm
Friday 7 October – Sunday 6 November 2016
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