Neil Miller was born in England in 1963 and immigrated with his
family to New Zealand in 1975. He gained a Bachelor of Fine Arts
from Auckland University's Elam School of Fine Arts in 1988 and has
actively exhibited and completed public and private commissions
since then, while also tutoring at the Auckland School of Art.
As a sculptor, Miller has grown from metalwork on a human scale
to large scale public and private works. He has participated in a
number of major NZ and international outdoor sculptural projects
including the Opanaku Arts Bridge (linking the Corban Estate to
Henderson Park), Regeneration in the Sculpture Walk at the
Auckland Domain and the 2004 work Here and There at the
Ironbridge Open Air Museum of Steel Sculpture in Shropshire,
Britain.
Miller has also contracted and
organised sculptural projects for the Waitakere City Council.
Miller's sculptural work is characterised by concepts of duality
expressed through the antagonism of compositional elements such as
curve and straight line, void and enclosed space, the skeletal and
the whole.
Miller also works in watercolour and
collage, using these media to flex his imagination in a whimsical,
pre-sculptural manner - his collages particularly providing a
fertile ground in which Miller tests ideas for realisation in
sculptural form.