Lisa Milroy

donated by the artist

Some recent solo exhibitions
Galerie Lelong, Zurich 2008, 'Lisa Milroy – Painted Worlds'
Galerie Xippas, Paris 2007
Tate Liverpool, 2001

Some recent group exhibitions
Nagoya City Art Museum, 2009, 'Visual Deceptions'
Tate Modern, London 2005, 'Raised Awareness'
Kunstmuseum Bonn, 2004, 'Still mapping the moon – Perspektiven zeitgenössischer Malerei'
Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna 2003, 'Favorites'

Selected publications
Eckhard Schneider, Lisa Milroy, Zurich: Galerie Lelong 2006
Lisa Milroy: Geishas, London: Alan Cristea Gallery 2003
Lewis Biggs, Lisa Milroy, London: Tate Publishing 2001

Selected public and corporate collections
Tate Britain, London, UK • SCAG Southampton City Art Gallery, UK • Berardo Museum - Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon, PT • FRAC Rhône-Alpes/IAC, Villeurbanne, FR • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, US • Fukuoka Art Museum, JP

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Still life is at the heart of Lisa Milroy's paintings. In the 1980s her paintings were depictions of ordinary objects such as records, light bulbs, shoes, books, clothes, stamps and Japanese prints, composed in either a grid or a scatter against an off-white ground. In the early 1990's Milroy's approach to still life painting shifted. Instead of depicting objects isolated against a neutral ground, she began to paint them within settings. The imagery expanded to exclude landscapes, architecture and people. As the range of imagery grew, her painting style diversified. By continually experimenting with fast and slow applications of paint, Milroy's painterly innovations have allowed her to achieve within her paintings a wide range of moods and atmospheres. For the past few years Milroy's focus has been on large-scale paintings that break away from painting as a window on the world to painting as an all-encompassing experience. All such environmental paintings reflect Milroy's ongoing fascination with the relation between stillness and movement, and how thought and feeling shape action.

Lisa Milroy has been advisor at the Rijksakademie for more than ten years.