Liz K Miller - Artist & Researcher

Born: Hexham, UK.

Lives & works: Lewes, UK.

 

Liz K Miller is a British interdisciplinary artist and researcher. She works at the intersection of sound and imagery, exploring the listening experience through visual diagramming, scoring and drawing. Her making techniques include printmaking, bookbinding, pigment-making, cyanotype, field recording, and audio analysis, which combine to create installations, works-on-paper, artist’s books and audio-visual presentations.

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Education

• 2017 – 2023 PhD Practice-based Fine Art, Royal College of Art, London

• 2015 – 2016 (PGCHE) PG Cert Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication, UAL, London

• 2008 – 2009 MA Visual Art: Printmaking, Camberwell College of Art, London

• 2003 – 2006 BA (Hons) Visual Communication: Illustration, Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland

 

Teaching & Lecturing

• 2024 – Current. Morley College. London – Sessional Lecturer in Printmaking and Bookbinding

• 2018 – 2024 Royal College of Art, Liverpool Hope University, Bath Spa University, University of the Creative Arts, London College of Communication, West Yorkshire Print Workshop, Bethel College (Kansas USA) – Visiting Educator positions: artist presentations, guest tutorials, and specialist workshops.

• 2015 – 2018 London College of Communication – Printmaking Technical Instructor

• 2013 – 2016 Royal Academy Schools. London – Print Fellow

• 2013 – 2015 London Metropolitan University – Printmaking Tutor – BA & MA Fine Art

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Awards

• 2024 Little Forest Land Art Award

• 2024 Suffolk Reverie Art Prize

• 2018 Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Techne PHD Scholarship

• 2017 Flourish Award for Excellence in Printmaking

• 2017 Jackson's Art Prize

• 2015 Neo Art Prize Intaglio Award

• 2014 Spike Print Studio Award

• 2014 Art Academy Award

• 2013 Medway Fine Printmakers Prize

• 2009 Bainbridge Contemporary Screen Print Studio Award

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Residencies, Fellowships and Partnerships

• 2020 Surrey Hills Arts. Surrey Hills AONB – AHRC Techne Partner

• 2019 Listening to Field, Body and Voice. Bude – AHRC Techne Summer School

• 2018 The Object of Research. Cumbria – AHRC Techne Residency

• 2013 – 2016 Royal Academy Schools. London – Print Fellow

• 2015 Spike Island Print Studio. Bristol – Printmaker in Residence

• 2006 – 2008 George Watson’s College. Edinburgh – Artist in Residence

 

Research Presentations

• 2024 Sound Diagramming – Presentation & Workshop – Surrey Poetry Festival, Guildford

• 2023 Beyond Listening – Conference – Moholy Nagy University, Budapest, Hungary

• 2022 Beyond Human – Symposium – Royal Holloway University, London

• 2021 Ways of Listening to Forests for 'Critical Zones: Observatories for Earthly Politics', Centre for Art & Media Karlsruhe, Germany

• 2020 Forest Listening – Watts Gallery & Artists’ Village, Surrey, UK

• 2020 Seeing Sound – Symposium – Bath Spa University, Bath, UK

• 2020 New Materialism & Sustainable Cyanotypes – London Alternative Photography Collective

• 2019 Again & Again: Musical Repetition – Symposium – University of London, Music Department

• 2018 The Circular Scores. Huddersfield Art Gallery, Huddersfield, UK

• 2015 Scordatura. Bearspace Gallery, Deptford, London

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Memberships

• 2023 World Forum for Acoustic Ecology – Member

• 2016 Higher Education Academy – Fellow