Background
His father Peter Miller was a painter in the social realist tradition.
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Lewis Miller
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Lewis studied painting at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne from 1977 to 1979, and then travelled to London, Europe and Malaysia.
Career
He held his first solo exhibition in 1986 and is represented in the National Gallery of Australia, state and private galleries. He has travelled widely, including trips to the United States of America in 1998, 2000, 2003 and 2005. In 2003 and 2005 Miller was commissioned to produce a series of portraits of the scientists and technicians involved in the mapping of the human genome.
His other commissioned portraits include Australian rules football coach Ron Barassi, mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary and scientist James Doctorate. Watson.
In 2003 he travelled to Iraq as Official Australian War Artist. As of 2005, he has entered the Archibald prize at least 17 times and been hung 13 times.
He was interviewed in the 2005 Peter Berner documentary Loaded Brush. He was a finalist in the 2011 Archibald Prize.
Achievements
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Nationality
Australia
Awards
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Archibald Prize 1982 - Hugh Ramsay Portrait Prize 1998 - Archibald Prize - Portrait of Allan Mitelman No 3 2000 - Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sporting Portrait Prize - Ronald Dale Barassi
The Archibald Prize is regarded as the most important portraiture prize in Australia.The Archibald Prize is regarded as the most important portraiture prize in Australia.