Daisy Miller’s practice explores human presence in the landscape through figurative, representational painting.
Miller dissects a melancholic nostalgia towards the landscape, triggered by her own personal experience and a series of digital archives documenting rural communities. Like the landscape, archives are structures which process and
store time in different ways, they are holding places for the past, the preservation of memory as well as being future orientated. 

Miller’s paintings articulate an in-between space, a hinterland suspended between the past, present and future, describing the entanglement of memory, reality and imagined encounters. A mutation occurs when an image from the past is brought into the present, it no longer belongs to the era it was taken from, nor does it adhere to its new context, it exists in a separate dislocated space. 

This dislocation and its elasticity provide an entry point into a new territory. Generating these spaces is an attempt to see beyond Miller’s own sense of paralysis when considering the future of the landscape. Time erodes the natural environment and our memories of it, for Miller painting provides a place of preservation and re-interpretation, helping establish a means of connection between personal and collective relationships with the landscape. 

EDUCATION

MA Fine Art, City and Guilds of London Art School, London, UK. 2024 - 2025

BA (Hons) Fine Art, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK. 2017 - 2021

GROUP SHOWS

Newcastle graduate show, The Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, UK. 2021

PUBLICATIONS

Interim Art, As of Yet Untitled, Issue 2. 2021