Nick Miller (born 1962 in London) is an Irish contemporary artist who has become known for reinvigorating painting and drawing in the traditional genres of portraiture, landscape and still-life.
Significant solo museum exhibitions of his work have taken place at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (South African Works in 1994, and Nick Miller and the Studio of Edward McGuire[4] in 2015-16) and, The Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin in 2003(Figure To Ground); The Butler Gallery, Kilkenny Castle in 2004(Genre); Limerick City Gallery of Art and Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris in 2007(Truckscapes: Drawings).
[5][6] The Mobile Studio enabled a highly productive 15-year period work[7] that explored Landscape through the interface of the artist with both culture and nature.
These drawings were made at very close quarters, exploring a single-point perspective, face-to-face and straddling the subjects on the paper they were being drawn on the floor.
As a way to connect to the man, he had not met, but whose work Miller admired, he invited a number of McGuire's sitters to come and sit for him in IMMA and talk about Edward, often over 30 years later.
[29] In more recent years, since 2011 he began to return to painting elements of nature, flowers, weeds, branches and even seaweed, placed in a variety of vases.
In the more recent Rootless paintings [31] Miller works with experiences of disintegration and order, as he takes the still lives to a monumental scale, affirming the primacy of 'Nature' as a true and vital reality.