Fine Lines: New Works by Andrew Miller

Andrew Miller is a Glasgow based artist working across a variety of media – drawing, sculpture, photography, and site-specific installations. Through a process of altering, transforming, and making, his intention is always to gain an understanding of the ambiguity between notions of form and function. This also sits with a long-held interest in mark making and how Miller continually seek to experiment with materials not only through his own making but also repositioning and reframing others. The reference to ‘Other People’s Time’ is a recurring title across text and titles of Miller’s work because he is interested in its reference to the previous life of objects, and other’s direct action with those materials, that he brings into his practice. By making incremental shifts between object and its placement, it can transform the discarded, redundant, salvaged or found to create a new dialogue with the viewer. 

This ongoing fascination with how we create meaning with objects and how we encounter them continues to be a source for Miller: his work is derived from the disruption of these associations. Recognition of the potential for accidental and improvised associations of material and structure is the starting point for much of what he does. The improvised know-how utilized in repair work and the make-shift constructions that he has encountered whilst travelling both in the UK and abroad provides him with a constant source of inspiration and possibilities to be further explored. These improvised languages of materials inform Miller’s practice as he is interested in the subtle shifts of meaning that can occur when the function of an object is displaced through its remaking, charging them with an unfamiliar presence to prompt questions about use, context, and value. It is through a continual process of drawing, altering, transforming, and making that Andrew Miller strives to gain an understanding of the inventive and intuitive placement of objects.

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