Simon Shaw-Miller

He was brought up in the village of Hollingbourne and the council estates of Park Wood and Senacre on the outskirts of Maidstone, in Kent.

He did post graduate research in the Department of Art History and Theory at the University of Essex, studying with Michael Podro, Peter Vergo, John Nash, Dawn Ades and Thomas Puttfarken, and was awarded his doctorate in 1988 for "Music and Art and the Crisis in Early Modernism: An introduction to some non-serial dodecaphonic techniques".

Prior to this he was a junior teaching and research fellow in the Department of History of Art at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.

Shaw-Miller has been active as a curator and was involved in the programming of music in the gallery at Tate, St Ives, between 2004 and 2007.

[4] The exhibited works came from Piano Nobile's Ruth Borchard Collection of British self-portraiture in the 20th and 21st centuries.