Lisa Milroy “The relation between making the painting and looking at the painting over the years has become really fascinating to me. Within this how you are physically engaging with the paint it allows you to tap into different, I guess, parts of yourself. The paint lands on the canvas in a very gestural way, so there's drag and friction and texture, and you're also then getting the paint to do a different kind of job where it is working with an image that you're holding in your head.” - Lisa Milroy, Artist. Lisa Milroy (born January 16, 1959) in Vancouver, British Columbia is an Anglo-Canadian artist known for her still life paintings of everyday objects placed in lines or patterns. Lisa Milroy studied at ‘St Martin’s School of Art’, London from 1977 to 1979 and at ‘Goldsmiths College of Art’, London from 1979 to 1982. In the period following graduation from ‘Goldsmith’s’ Milroy concentrated on painting everyday and household objects often arranged in rows or patterns against plain backgrounds. This pared-down approach was utilised in her travel paintings of the 1990s which concentrated on building facades. The repetition of windows and other architectural elements echoed the rows and patterns of objects found in the earlier paintings. In her recent work, most notably her series featuring geishas, Milroy has explored a less linear aesthetic. The geisha paintings are overtly playful and mix different styles of representation. #neonurchin #neonurchinblog #dedicatedtothethingswelove #suzyurchin #ollyurchin #art #music #photography #fashion #film #words #pictures #neon #urchin #vodfonefoundationsinstantnetworkschools #handson #headofgraduatepainting #sladeschooloffineart #abstractart #stilllife #landscape #portraiture #lisamilroy https://www.instagram.com/p/CEJZqlKFb8Q/?igshid=1tf8avm8c3c33

Lisa Milroy Lisa Milroy was born in 1959 in Vancouver, Canada and moved to London to study at ‘St Martin's School of Art’ and ‘Goldsmith's College of Art’ from 1979 to 1982. Through the subjects of still life, landscape, architecture and portraiture Milroy explores the themes of making, looking, touch and transformation in her paintings. Milroy won the ‘John Moores Painting Prize’ in 1989 and was elected to the ‘Royal Academy of Arts’ in 2005. She was an ‘Artist Trustee of Tate’ from 2013 to 2017 and is 'Head of Graduate Painting’ at the ‘Slade School of Fine Art’ UCL. Milroy has travelled extensively in connection with her work, including undertaking residencies in Qatar, Bangladesh, China, Taiwan and Japan. Since 2015 Milroy has worked with the ‘Vodafone Foundation's Instant Network Schools’ where she initiated ‘Hands On’ a practical art workshop programme that can be delivered through digital connectivity for schoolchildren in refugee camps. #neonurchin #neonurchinblog #dedicatedtothethingswelove #suzyurchin #ollyurchin #art #music #photography #fashion #film #words #pictures #neon #urchin #vodfonefoundationsinstantnetworkschools #handson #headofgraduatepainting #sladeschooloffineart #abstractart #stilllife #landscape #portraiture #lisamilroy https://www.instagram.com/p/CEJZlnQl3Fk/?igshid=1jstd2xdy26nc

Lisa Milroy Born in Vancouver, Lisa Milroy flew to Paris to enroll at the ‘Paris-Sorbonne University’ at age 18. Two years later, she moved to London and studied at the ‘Saint Martin’s School of Art'. Milroy had her first solo exhibition as an accomplished artist in 1984 the artworks on display focusing on still life paintings and abstract art. The subjects of Milroy’s artworks are everyday items shoes, clothes, vases. She is highly identified as a still-life painter although Milroy has several notable landscape paintings and abstract art works. Milroy is known for using positive and negative spaces in her still-life and abstract paintings and for putting her subjects in grids, lines, groups, rows and columns. The term ‘still life’ signals the fundamental experience of painting for Milroy, encapsulating her fascination with the relation between stillness and movement, contemplation and action. In the 1980s Milroy’s paintings featured everyday objects depicted against an off-white ground, compositionally arranged in a grid or random scatter and characterised by a quick gestural application of paint. In the 1990s, Milroy shifted from fast painting to a slower, more modulated approach. She began to paint objects within settings, which expanded her understanding of still life to embrace landscape, architecture, portraiture and storytelling. More recently, Milroy’s sense of experimentation has led her to explore painting through installation and performance. #neonurchin #neonurchinblog #dedicatedtothethingswelove #suzyurchin #ollyurchin #art #music #photography #fashion #film #words #pictures #neon #urchin #vodfonefoundationsinstantnetworkschools #handson #headofgraduatepainting #sladeschooloffineart #abstractart #stilllife #landscape #portraiture #lisamilroy https://www.instagram.com/p/CEJZgaTFeBw/?igshid=12fo0a5hlclx8