David Miller

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Discovered by Isabelle Brunelin at Galerie Pierre in Paris, David Miller (1942-2008) first exhibited his "nouvelles terres vernissées" in Toucy in 2002. Born in London, but Mediterranean by adoption, he expresses his pleasure at living under the Provencal sky in ceramics of exceptional vitality. Like a calligrapher or action painter, David Miller fully expresses space. His broad waves of color expand, rhythm, invade and become themselves, space and light. David Miller exhibited again in Toucy in 2007 to mark the gallery's 10th anniversary. He died suddenly the following year. The Galerie de l'Ancienne Poste will dedicate a tribute exhibition to him in 2016. A work by the artist recently joined the CNAP collection.

"David Miller was someone who crossed borders. And that not
only in the geographical sense, as he did with his 1978 move from England to France. Equally talented in the fields of sculpture, painting and ceramics, rigid categories of art or classification in the
For him, "modern" and "traditional" were not contradictions, not hierarchies or incompatibilities. David Miller was as modern as he was traditional, an artist of the applied arts as much as of the free arts. He was equally at home in genres and techniques, which he exercised with sovereignty and which he knew how to connect quite seamlessly." Marianne Heller, Heller Gallery, Heidelberg, Germany.

Public and private collections

  • Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris
  • Musée La Piscine, Roubaix
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, London
  • Rosenthal Studio, Hamburg
  • National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
    Pieces in private collections in Great Britain, France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway

Solo exhibition at the gallery

Works

Main exhibitions (selection)

2016
David Miller "Hommage" exhibition, Galerie de l'Ancienne Poste, Toucy
2015
David Miller retrospective and presentation of works by the five winners of the "David Miller Prize", Printemps des Potiers, Bandol.
2007
Exhibition "The Pot, the Vessel and the Object", International Ceramics Festival Aberystwyth Arts center, Wales, UK
Exhibition/Demonstration Medalta International Artists in Residence
Program -Guest artist - Medicine Hat, Historic Clay District, Alberta, Canada Solo exhibition - Gallery Loes & Reinier, Deventer, Holland
"10 years of the Gallery", Galerie de l'Ancienne Poste, Toucy
2006
Salzbrand keramik 2006" exhibition Handwerkskammer, Koblenz, Germany Terres de Feu" exhibition - 40 contemporary ceramists, Brest, France
2005
Exhibition "Couleurs : les Peintres de la Terre", Maison de la céramique contemporaine, Giroussens, France
2004
Yorshire Sculpture Park, England. Exhibition, woodfire conference
"The naked truth" Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA.
2003
Biennale de céramique Le Grand Pressigny, France
2002
Solo exhibition "Nouvelles Terres Vernissées", Galerie de l'Ancienne Poste, Toucy
Exhibition /Demonstration, Keramik Museum, Höhr-Grenzhausen, Germany