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'''Sam Orlando Miller''' (born 1966) is a British artist specialising in sculptural artworks made of mirror.<ref name="modernmag">{{Cite news|url=http://modernmag.com/sam-orlando-miller-the-sky-blue-series-on-view-at-hedge-gallery/|title=Sam Orlando Miller: The Sky Blue Series on View at Hedge Gallery|date=4 October 2012|work=Modern Magazine|access-date=2 April 2019}}</ref>
== Early Life ==
{{redacted}} <ref>{{Cite news|url=https://howtospendit.ft.com/art-philanthropy/106253-mirrored-art|title=Mirrored Art|last=Van der Post|first=Lucia|date=13 May 2016|work=How to Spend it|access-date=2 April 2019}}</ref>


== Early life ==
Miller graduated (1986) in Fine Art from [[Falmouth School of Art]] <ref>{{Cite journal|last=Miller|first=Helen|date=April 2004|title=Found Effects|url=|journal=The World of Interiors|volume=|pages=156|via=Database}}</ref> where he was recognised for his large-scale forged steel sculptures and high level of drawing skills. His graduation theses subject was the work of American artist [[Barbara Kruger]].
Miller was born in London and grew up there, spending time in the workshop of his family's silversmithing business. There he learnt to work with the reflective surface of silver and how it interacts with the space around it.<ref name="howtospendit">{{Cite web|url=https://howtospendit.ft.com/art-philanthropy/106253-mirrored-art|title=Mirrored Art|last=Van Der Post|first=Lucia|date=13 May 2016|website=[[How to Spend It]]}}</ref>

Miller graduated (1986) in Fine Art from [[Falmouth School of Art]].<ref name="worldofinteriors">{{Cite journal|last=Miller|first=Helen|date=April 2004|title=Found Effects|journal=[[The World of Interiors]]|page=156}}</ref> His graduation theses subject was the work of American artist [[Barbara Kruger]].<ref name="howtospendit" />


== Work ==
== Work ==


In 1994, after time spent living and working in Italy and Scotland, Miller returned to London. There he established a studio for projects for commercial and residential interiors. The studio made high specification sculptural objects, interiors and fittings.<ref name="singer">{{Cite news|url=https://www.sightunseen.com/2012/10/sam-orlando-miller-le-marche-italy/|title=Sam Orlando Miller, Le Marche, Italy|last=Singer|first=Jill|date=18 October 2012|work=Sightunseen|access-date=2 April 2019}}</ref>


In 2002 he relocated to a remote part of [[Le Marche]], central Italy. He continued to make functional sculptural objects and interior fittings and furniture.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/sam-orlando-miller-mirrors-article|title=Sam Orlando Miller's Elegant Mirrors|last=Gardner|first=Anthony|date=1 December 2011|work=[[Architectural Digest]]|access-date=2 April 2019}}</ref> Alongside this work he created drawings, paintings and steel sculptures,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://howtospendit.ft.com/house-garden/48403-fine-artist-led-furniture|title=Fine artist-led furniture|last=Crichton-Miller|first=Emma|date=21 February 2014|work=[[How to Spend It]]|access-date=2 April 2019}}</ref> some of which would later form the ''Nostalgia Futuro'' series, completed in 2016.<ref name="wallpaper">{{Cite web|url=https://www.wallpaper.com/design/sam-orlando-miller-gets-illusory-at-gallery-fumi|title='Tra L'Occhio e L'Ombra':Sam Orlando Miller gets illusory at Galery FUMI|last=Bertolli|first=Rosa|date=3 May 2016|website=[[Wallpaper (magazine)|Wallpaper]]}}</ref>
In 1987-88, Miller lived and worked in Montisi, a mediaeval hill town outside [[Siena]], Italy. This was a formative time studying at Italian art, design and architecture and creating sculptures and drawings.


In 2005, to coincide with an exhibition of his work at Macandi showroom in Mayfair, London, his work was featured in ''The World of Interiors''.<ref name="worldofinteriors" />
Between 1990-1993 he lived and worked in Glasgow, Scotland, setting up a studio for his sculptural work. He began taking on commissions for private residential interiors and aircraft.


In 2009 Miller made the first ''Untitled Mirror'' for his home in Italy, using discarded mirrors he had found and picked up because he was drawn to the flaking silver.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://youhavebeenheresometime.blogspot.com/2011/09/non-conversation-with-sam-orlando.html|title=a (non) conversation with Sam Orlando Miller|last=John|first=David|date=25 September 2010|website=You Have Been Here Sometime}}</ref> He then began working with a palette of handmade glass which he silvered to create mirror, often adding patina by creating marks on the silver itself with painterly lines and numbers. He became interested in creating a complexity of layers for the viewer, drawing attention to the surface of the mirror itself and creating distractions from their own reflection.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://howtospendit.ft.com/house-garden/48403-fine-artist-led-furniture|title=Mirror Funiture Design|date=29 September 2018|work=ILOBOYOU|access-date=2 April 2019}}{{Failed verification|date=October 2023}}</ref>
In 1994 he returned to London, established a large studio to undertake creative interior projects for commercial and residential interiors. The studio made high specification sculptural objects, interiors and fittings.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.sightunseen.com/2012/10/sam-orlando-miller-le-marche-italy/|title=Sam Orlando Miller, Le Marche, Italy|last=Singer|first=Jill|date=18 October 2012|work=Sightunseen|access-date=2 April 2019}}</ref>


Sixteen new works in shaded from inky midnight blue to pale celeste, ''The Sky Blue Series'', were exhibited at Hedge Gallery in September 2012, including the first ''Untitled Tables I and 2''. In this series Miller explored the thought of sky as a metaphor, likening the sky to the mind; dark and light, clear and hazy, intangible and mysterious.<ref name="modernmag" /> In 2012 Miller also exhibited works during [[Milan Furniture Fair|Salone del Mobile]] Milan as guest artist at Gallery Space | Laboratorio Avallone, curated by Malgosia Szemberg.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.sightunseen.com/2012/04/at-the-2012-milan-furniture-fair-part-iii/|title=At the 2012 Milan Furniture Fair, Part III|last=Kemshurov|first=Monica|date=26 April 2012|work=Sightunseen|access-date=3 April 2019}}</ref>
During these years he was commissioned to design the interior of the London Italian restaurants Spiga and Spighetta, working with [[Giorgio Locatelli]], made interiors for retails stores [[Browns (fashion boutique)|Browns]] of South Molton Street, [[Liberty (department store)|Liberty]] of Regent Street and made large-scale sculptural interiors for [[DKNY]]. He contributed high specification fittings, lighting, gilded doors and unique sculptures made of precious stones and metals for the custom-interiors of private aircraft of the Royal family of Brunei.


A large-scale mirror ''Rete Corallina 6X6/4'' was presented at Design Miami/Basel 2015, now in a private collection.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.designboom.com/design/gallery-fumi-design-miami-basel-2015-06-14-2015/|title=Gallery FUMI – Contemporary Works and Commissions|last=Azzarello|first=Nina|date=14 June 2015|work=[[Designboom]]|access-date=3 April 2019}}</ref> An exhibition of eleven new works, ''Tra L'Occhio e L'Ombra'' was presented at Gallery FUMI in April 2016, including ''Sguardo Cubetti'' series consisting of six functional sculptural objects each using the same form attached into different dimensions, creating tables and cupboards with secret sliding compartments.<ref name="wallpaper" /> The exhibition included four works from Miller's very personal ''Nostalgia Futuro'' series where the reflection of his studio seen in the mirror panel of the work is painted onto the surrounding surface.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/1389940/sam-orlando-millers-new-works-open-at-gallery-fumi|title=Sam Orlando Miller's New Works Open at Gallery FUMI|last=Perkovic|first=Jana|date=3 May 2016|work=[[Blouin Artinfo]]|access-date=3 April 2019}}</ref>
In 2002 he relocated to an early 18th century farmhouse in a remote part of Le Marche, central Italy. Over the next six years he created private interiors, working mostly on historic buildings in central Italy for private clients. He continued to make functional sculptural objects and interior fittings and furniture. <ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.sightunseen.com/2012/10/sam-orlando-miller-le-marche-italy/|title=Sam Orlando Miller’s Elegant Mirrors|last=Gardner|first=Anthony|date=1 December 2011|work=AD|access-date=2 April 2019}}</ref> Alongside this work he created a prolific output of drawings, paintings and steel sculptures<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://howtospendit.ft.com/house-garden/48403-fine-artist-led-furniture|title=Fine artist-led furniture|last=Crichton-Miller|first=Emma|date=21 February 2014|work=How to Spend it|access-date=2 April 2019}}</ref>, some of which would later form the ''Nostalgia Futuro'' series, completed in 2016.


Miller's latest body of work ''Sentiero dei Viandanti (Path of The Wayfarers)'' was a creative shift and marked his relocation from Italy to Catalonia, Spain. Pivoting around a large free-standing sculptural mirror work, ''Rifugio dei Viandanti (Sanctuary of The Wayfarers)'', the installation was designed to present the back of the work, where Miller's making and structuring was clearly visible like the clues on the back of a painting for the visitor to discover as they move around the gallery.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://living.corriere.it/tendenze/design/sam-orlando-miller-fumi-gallery-londra/|title=Sam Orlando Miller: specchio delle mie brame|last=De Conte|first=Massimo|date=5 March 2019|work=Living il Corriere della Sera|access-date=3 April 2019}}</ref>
In 2005, to coincide with an exhibition of his work at Macandi showroom in Mayfair, London, his work was featured in The World of Interiors. <ref>{{Cite journal|last=Miller|first=Helen|date=April 2004|title=Found Effects|url=|journal=The World of Interiors|volume=|pages=156|via=}}</ref>

In 2009 Miller made the first ''Untitled Mirror'' for his home in Italy, using discarded mirrors he had found and picked up because he was drawn to the flaking silver. He then began working with a palette of handmade glass the he silvered to create mirror, often adding patina by creating marks on the silver itself with painterly lines and numbers. He became interested in creating a complexity of layers for the viewer, drawing attention to the surface of the mirror itself and creating distractions from their own reflection.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://howtospendit.ft.com/house-garden/48403-fine-artist-led-furniture|title=Mirror Funiture Design|last=|first=|date=29 September 2018|work=ILOBOYOU|access-date=2 April 2019}}</ref>

In March 2012 Miller made ''Untitled Mirror 5'', a large, faceted mirror work of tantalising emerald greens, measuring 2.2 meters wide, which was exhibited by Hedge Gallery at Dallas Art Fair. Sixteen new works in shaded from inky midnight blue to pale celeste, ''The Sky Blue Series'', were exhibited at Hedge Gallery in September the same year, including the first ''Untitled Tables I and 2''. In this series Miller explored the thought of sky as a metaphor, likening the sky to the mind; dark and light, clear and hazy, intangible and mysterious. <ref>{{Cite news|url=http://modernmag.com/sam-orlando-miller-the-sky-blue-series-on-view-at-hedge-gallery/|title=Sam Orlando Miller: The Sky Blue Series on View at Hedge Gallery|last=|first=|date=4 October 2012|work=Modern Magazine|access-date=3 April 2019}}</ref> In 2012 Miller also exhibited works during [[Milan Furniture Fair|Salone del Mobile]] Milan as guest artist at Gallery Space | Laboratorio Avallone, curated by Malgosia Szemberg.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.sightunseen.com/2012/04/at-the-2012-milan-furniture-fair-part-iii/|title=At the 2012 Milan Furniture Fair, Part III|last=Kemshurov|first=Monica|date=26 April 2012|work=Sightunseen|access-date=3 April 2019}}</ref>

An important large-scale mirror ''Rete Corallina 6X6/4'' was presented at Design Miami/Basel 2015, now in a private collection.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.designboom.com/design/gallery-fumi-design-miami-basel-2015-06-14-2015/|title=Gallery FUMI – Contemporary Works and Commissions|last=Azzarello|first=Nina|date=14 June 2015|work=Designboom|access-date=3 April 2019}}</ref> An exhibition of eleven new works, ''Tra L'Occhio e L'Ombra'' was presented at Gallery FUMI in April 2016, including ''Sguardo Cubetti'' series consisting of six functional sculptural objects each using the same form attached into different dimensions, creating tables and cupboards with secret sliding compartments<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.wallpaper.com/design/sam-orlando-miller-gets-illusory-at-gallery-fumi|title=Tra l’Occhio e l’Ombra: Sam Orlando Miller gets illusory at Gallery FUMI|last=Bertoli|first=Rosa|date=3 May 2016|work=Wallpaper*|access-date=3 April 2019}}</ref>. The exhibition included four works from Miller's very personal ''Nostalgia Futuro'' series where the reflection of his studio seen in the mirror panel of the work is painted onto the surrounding surface. <ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/1389940/sam-orlando-millers-new-works-open-at-gallery-fumi|title=Sam Orlando Miller’s New Works Open at Gallery FUMI|last=Perkovic|first=Jana|date=3 May 2016|work=Blouin Artinfo|access-date=3 April 2019}}</ref>

Miller suggests that within the studio, the mirrored surfaces transform reality into a world of softness and ambiguity. He suggests that while looking in the mirror, the activity of making is thrown into questions and the meaning becomes uncertain. For him whether the works are tables or mirrors, boxes or paintings is not so important; what is important is that they create the possibility for the viewer to being a momentarily uplifting place. <ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.wallpaper.com/design/sam-orlando-miller-gets-illusory-at-gallery-fumi|title=Tra l’Occhio e l’Ombra: Sam Orlando Miller gets illusory at Gallery FUMI|last=Bertoli|first=Rosa|date=3 May 2019|work=Wallpaper*|access-date=3 April 2019}}</ref>

Miller is interested in drawing the viewer's gaze into his work. He suggests that silver is a compelling surface that draws the viewer towards it, as does mirror being made of glass and silver. Aware of the attraction of a silver surface that reflects our image back and shows us in our environment, he carefully chooses materials to make this encounter more interesting. <ref>{{Cite news|url=https://howtospendit.ft.com/house-garden/203052-mirrored-furniture-that-plays-with-perception|title=Mirrored furniture that plays with perception|last=Abrahams|first=Charlotte|date=28 March 2018|work=How To Spend It|access-date=3 April 2019}}</ref>

Miller's latest body of work ''[https://galleryfumi.com/exhibitions/2019/sentiero-dei-viandanti/ Sentiero dei Viandanti (Path of The Wayfarers)]'' was a creative shift and marked his relocation from Italy to Catalonia, Spain. The body of work contained the essence of a journey, memories of the old and new. Pivoting around a large free-standing sculptural mirror work, ''Rifugio dei Viandanti (Sanctuary of The Wayfarers)'', the installation was designed to present the back of the work, where Miller's making and structuring was clearly visible like the clues on the back of a painting, a subdued and reflective place for the visitor to discover as they move around the gallery.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://living.corriere.it/tendenze/design/sam-orlando-miller-fumi-gallery-londra/|title=Sam Orlando Miller: specchio delle mie brame|last=De Conte|first=Massimo|date=5 March 2019|work=Living il Corriere della Sera|access-date=3 April 2019}}</ref>


== Personal ==
== Personal ==
Sam Orlando Miller is married to photographer and filmmaker Helen Underwood Miller<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.sightunseen.com/2012/10/sam-orlando-miller-le-marche-italy/|title=Sam Orlando Miller, Le Marche, Italy|last=Singer|first=Jill|date=18 October 2012|work=Sightunseen|access-date=2 April 2019}}</ref>. They have worked together professionally for thirty years. He lives in London and Catalonia, Spain.
Sam Orlando Miller is married to photographer and filmmaker Helen Underwood Miller.<ref name="singer" /> They have worked together professionally for thirty years. He lives in London and Catalonia, Spain.
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== Selected Exhibitions ==
== Selected exhibitions ==
2004
2019


* ''Exhibition of objects and furniture'', Macandi Showrooms, London, UK{{citation needed|date=November 2019}}
* ''Sam Orlando Miller | Sentiero dei Viandanti, Path of The Wayfarers''. Gallery FUMI, London, UK


2005


* ''Made in Italy'', Macandi Showrooms, London, UK{{citation needed|date=November 2019}}
2018


2006
* ''Reflections'', ammann//gallery, Cologne, Germany
* ''Re-considering Canon'', [[Design Museum]], London, UK<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://designmuseum.org/whats-on/london-design-festival-2018/reconsidering-canon|title=Reconsidering Canon|last=|first=|date=|website=designmuseum.org|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=3 April 2019}}</ref>
* ''Now and Then | 10 years of Collectable Creativity'' , curated by Libby Sellers, Gallery FUMI, London, UK


* ''Before the Thought of God'', curated by Andrew Hewish, [[Centre for Recent Drawing]], London, UK<ref>{{Cite web|last=ArtFacts|title=Before the thought of god {{!}} Exhibition|url=https://artfacts.net/exhibition/before-the-thought-of-god/292682|access-date=2021-02-22|website=ArtFacts|language=en}}</ref>
* ''Group Exhibition'', Pinacoteca Santa Vittoria in Matenano, Italy{{citation needed|date=November 2019}}


2012
2017


* ''Guest artist at Gallery Space | Studio Avallone'', curated by Malgosia Szemberg, [[Milan Furniture Fair|Salone del Mobile]], Milan, Italy{{citation needed|date=November 2019}}
* ''Salon Art + Design'', New York City, USA
* ''Flection'', Hedge Gallery, San Francisco, USA<ref>{{Cite web|title='Flection' at Hedge Gallery {{!}} DeTnk|url=https://detnk.com/node/11521.html|access-date=2021-02-22|website=detnk.com}}</ref>
* ''They Sky Blue Series'', Hedge Gallery, San Francisco, USA<ref>{{Cite web|last=White|first=Sarah Virginia|title=DESIGN DAILY: SKY BLUE SERIES BY SAM ORLANDO MILLER|url=https://www.californiahomedesign.com/trending/2012/10/25/design-daily-sky-blue-series-sam-orlando-miller/|website=California Home Design}}</ref>


2014


* ''Wallpaper Handmade'', [[Milan Furniture Fair|Salone del Mobile]], Milan, Italy<ref>{{Cite web|date=2014-04-15|title=Fuorisalone 2014, si chiude il sipario|url=https://www.amica.it/2014/04/15/fuorisalone-si-chiude-il-sipario/|access-date=2021-02-22|website=Amica|language=it-IT}}</ref>
2016
* ''Modern Makers'', curated by Sara Griffiths, [[Sotheby's]], [[Chatsworth House]], UK<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/2013/modern-makers-l13902.html|title=Modern Makers|website=www.sothebys.com|access-date=3 April 2019}}</ref>

* ''Sam Orlando Miller | Tra L'Occhio e L'Ombra'', Gallery FUMI, London, UK



2015
2015


* Design Days Dubai, Dubai, UAE <ref>{{Cite web|title=Fair: Design Days Dubai 2015|url=https://gallery-fumi-5e3e86.webflow.io/fairs/design-days-dubai-2015|access-date=2021-02-22|website=gallery-fumi-5e3e86.webflow.io}}</ref>
* Design Days Dubai, Dubai, UAE
* Design Miami/Basel 2015, Basel, Switzerland<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.iconeye.com/design/news/item/12041-design-miami-basel|title=Design Miami/Basel|last=|first=|date=19 June 2015|work=ICON|access-date=}}</ref>
* Design Miami/Basel 2015, Basel, Switzerland<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.iconeye.com/design/news/item/12041-design-miami-basel|title=Design Miami/Basel|date=19 June 2015|work=[[Icon (architecture magazine)|Icon]]}}</ref>


2016


* ''Sam Orlando Miller | Tra L'Occhio e L'Ombra'', Gallery FUMI, London, UK<ref>{{Cite web|last=Magazine|first=Wallpaper*|date=2016-05-03|title='Tra L'Occhio e L'Ombra': Sam Orlando Miller gets illusory at Gallery Fumi|url=https://www.wallpaper.com/design/sam-orlando-miller-gets-illusory-at-gallery-fumi|access-date=2021-02-22|website=Wallpaper*}}</ref>
2014


2017
* ''Wallpaper Handmade'', [[Milan Furniture Fair|Salone del Mobile]], Milan, Italy
* ''Modern Makers'', curated by Sara Griffiths, [[Sotheby's]], [[Chatsworth House]], UK<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/2013/modern-makers-l13902.html|title=Modern Makers|last=|first=|date=|website=www.sothebys.com|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=3 April 2019}}</ref>


* ''Salon Art + Design'', New York City, USA<ref>{{Cite web|title=Fair: The Salon Art + Design 2017|url=https://www.galleryfumi.com/fairs/the-salon-art-design-2017|access-date=2021-02-22|website=www.galleryfumi.com}}</ref>


2018
2012


* ''Reflections'', ammann//gallery, Cologne, Germany<ref>{{Cite web|title=exhibitions / art fairs, ammann//gallery › ammann gallery|url=https://ammann-gallery.com/exhibitions-art-fairs/|access-date=2021-02-22|website=ammann-gallery.com}}</ref>
* ''Guest artist at Gallery Space | Studio Avallone'', curated by Malgosia Szemberg, [[Milan Furniture Fair|Salone del Mobile]], Milan, Italy
* ''Re-considering Canon'', [[Design Museum]], London, UK<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://designmuseum.org/whats-on/london-design-festival-2018/reconsidering-canon|title=Reconsidering Canon|website=[[Design Museum]]|access-date=3 April 2019}}</ref>
* ''Flection'', Hedge Gallery, San Francisco, USA
* ''Now and Then | 10 years of Collectable Creativity'' , curated by Libby Sellers, Gallery FUMI, London, UK<ref>{{Cite web|title=Now and Then {{!}} 10 YEARS OF COLLECTABLE CREATIVITY|url=https://www.libbysellers.com/news/213/|access-date=2021-02-22|website=Gallery Libby Sellers}}</ref>
* ''They Sky Blue Series'', Hedge Gallery, San Francisco, USA


2019


* ''Sam Orlando Miller | Sentiero dei Viandanti, Path of The Wayfarers''. Gallery FUMI, London, UK<ref>{{Cite web|last=FUMI|first=Gallery|title=Sam Orlando Miller: Sentiero dei Viandanti {{!}} Path of the Wayfarers at Gallery FUMI|url=https://www.galleriesnow.net/shows/sam-orlando-miller-sentiero-dei-viandanti/|access-date=2021-02-22|language=en-US}}</ref>
2006
2020            


*  2020: It’s Good to be Home, Gallery FUMI, London, UK<ref>{{Cite web|title=At Home, 2020 – DANIELLA ON DESIGN|url=https://www.daniellaondesign.com/blog/at-home-2020/|access-date=2021-02-22|language=en-US}}</ref>
* ''Before the Thought of God'', curated by Andrew Hewish, [[Centre for Recent Drawing]], London, UK
* ‘Kleureyck, Van Eyck’s Colours in Design’, Design Museum Gent, Gent, Belgium<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-06-02|title=design museum gent explores color in contemporary design with 'kleureyck' exhibition|url=https://www.designboom.com/design/design-museum-gent-color-kleureyck-van-eyck-exhibition-06-02-2020/|access-date=2021-02-22|website=designboom {{!}} architecture & design magazine|language=en}}</ref>
* ''Group Exhibition'', Pinacoteca Santa Vittoria in Matenano, Italy


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* ''Made in Italy'', Macandi Showrooms, London, UK
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* ''Exhibition of objects and furniture'', Macandi Showrooms, London, UK

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Sam Orlando Miller
Born
London, England
NationalityBritish
Known forSculpture

Sam Orlando Miller (born 1966) is a British artist specialising in sculptural artworks made of mirror.[1]

Early life

[edit]

Miller was born in London and grew up there, spending time in the workshop of his family's silversmithing business. There he learnt to work with the reflective surface of silver and how it interacts with the space around it.[2]

Miller graduated (1986) in Fine Art from Falmouth School of Art.[3] His graduation theses subject was the work of American artist Barbara Kruger.[2]

Work

[edit]

In 1994, after time spent living and working in Italy and Scotland, Miller returned to London. There he established a studio for projects for commercial and residential interiors. The studio made high specification sculptural objects, interiors and fittings.[4]

In 2002 he relocated to a remote part of Le Marche, central Italy. He continued to make functional sculptural objects and interior fittings and furniture.[5] Alongside this work he created drawings, paintings and steel sculptures,[6] some of which would later form the Nostalgia Futuro series, completed in 2016.[7]

In 2005, to coincide with an exhibition of his work at Macandi showroom in Mayfair, London, his work was featured in The World of Interiors.[3]

In 2009 Miller made the first Untitled Mirror for his home in Italy, using discarded mirrors he had found and picked up because he was drawn to the flaking silver.[8] He then began working with a palette of handmade glass which he silvered to create mirror, often adding patina by creating marks on the silver itself with painterly lines and numbers. He became interested in creating a complexity of layers for the viewer, drawing attention to the surface of the mirror itself and creating distractions from their own reflection.[9]

Sixteen new works in shaded from inky midnight blue to pale celeste, The Sky Blue Series, were exhibited at Hedge Gallery in September 2012, including the first Untitled Tables I and 2. In this series Miller explored the thought of sky as a metaphor, likening the sky to the mind; dark and light, clear and hazy, intangible and mysterious.[1] In 2012 Miller also exhibited works during Salone del Mobile Milan as guest artist at Gallery Space | Laboratorio Avallone, curated by Malgosia Szemberg.[10]

A large-scale mirror Rete Corallina 6X6/4 was presented at Design Miami/Basel 2015, now in a private collection.[11] An exhibition of eleven new works, Tra L'Occhio e L'Ombra was presented at Gallery FUMI in April 2016, including Sguardo Cubetti series consisting of six functional sculptural objects each using the same form attached into different dimensions, creating tables and cupboards with secret sliding compartments.[7] The exhibition included four works from Miller's very personal Nostalgia Futuro series where the reflection of his studio seen in the mirror panel of the work is painted onto the surrounding surface.[12]

Miller's latest body of work Sentiero dei Viandanti (Path of The Wayfarers) was a creative shift and marked his relocation from Italy to Catalonia, Spain. Pivoting around a large free-standing sculptural mirror work, Rifugio dei Viandanti (Sanctuary of The Wayfarers), the installation was designed to present the back of the work, where Miller's making and structuring was clearly visible like the clues on the back of a painting for the visitor to discover as they move around the gallery.[13]

Personal

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Sam Orlando Miller is married to photographer and filmmaker Helen Underwood Miller.[4] They have worked together professionally for thirty years. He lives in London and Catalonia, Spain.

Selected exhibitions

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2004

  • Exhibition of objects and furniture, Macandi Showrooms, London, UK[citation needed]

2005

2006

2012

  • Guest artist at Gallery Space | Studio Avallone, curated by Malgosia Szemberg, Salone del Mobile, Milan, Italy[citation needed]
  • Flection, Hedge Gallery, San Francisco, USA[15]
  • They Sky Blue Series, Hedge Gallery, San Francisco, USA[16]

2014

2015

  • Design Days Dubai, Dubai, UAE [19]
  • Design Miami/Basel 2015, Basel, Switzerland[20]

2016

  • Sam Orlando Miller | Tra L'Occhio e L'Ombra, Gallery FUMI, London, UK[21]

2017

  • Salon Art + Design, New York City, USA[22]

2018

  • Reflections, ammann//gallery, Cologne, Germany[23]
  • Re-considering Canon, Design Museum, London, UK[24]
  • Now and Then | 10 years of Collectable Creativity , curated by Libby Sellers, Gallery FUMI, London, UK[25]

2019

  • Sam Orlando Miller | Sentiero dei Viandanti, Path of The Wayfarers. Gallery FUMI, London, UK[26]

2020            

  •  2020: It’s Good to be Home, Gallery FUMI, London, UK[27]
  • ‘Kleureyck, Van Eyck’s Colours in Design’, Design Museum Gent, Gent, Belgium[28]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Sam Orlando Miller: The Sky Blue Series on View at Hedge Gallery". Modern Magazine. 4 October 2012. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
  2. ^ a b Van Der Post, Lucia (13 May 2016). "Mirrored Art". How to Spend It.
  3. ^ a b Miller, Helen (April 2004). "Found Effects". The World of Interiors: 156.
  4. ^ a b Singer, Jill (18 October 2012). "Sam Orlando Miller, Le Marche, Italy". Sightunseen. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
  5. ^ Gardner, Anthony (1 December 2011). "Sam Orlando Miller's Elegant Mirrors". Architectural Digest. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
  6. ^ Crichton-Miller, Emma (21 February 2014). "Fine artist-led furniture". How to Spend It. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
  7. ^ a b Bertolli, Rosa (3 May 2016). "'Tra L'Occhio e L'Ombra':Sam Orlando Miller gets illusory at Galery FUMI". Wallpaper.
  8. ^ John, David (25 September 2010). "a (non) conversation with Sam Orlando Miller". You Have Been Here Sometime.
  9. ^ "Mirror Funiture Design". ILOBOYOU. 29 September 2018. Retrieved 2 April 2019.[failed verification]
  10. ^ Kemshurov, Monica (26 April 2012). "At the 2012 Milan Furniture Fair, Part III". Sightunseen. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
  11. ^ Azzarello, Nina (14 June 2015). "Gallery FUMI – Contemporary Works and Commissions". Designboom. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
  12. ^ Perkovic, Jana (3 May 2016). "Sam Orlando Miller's New Works Open at Gallery FUMI". Blouin Artinfo. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
  13. ^ De Conte, Massimo (5 March 2019). "Sam Orlando Miller: specchio delle mie brame". Living il Corriere della Sera. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
  14. ^ ArtFacts. "Before the thought of god | Exhibition". ArtFacts. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
  15. ^ "'Flection' at Hedge Gallery | DeTnk". detnk.com. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
  16. ^ White, Sarah Virginia. "DESIGN DAILY: SKY BLUE SERIES BY SAM ORLANDO MILLER". California Home Design.
  17. ^ "Fuorisalone 2014, si chiude il sipario". Amica (in Italian). 15 April 2014. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
  18. ^ "Modern Makers". www.sothebys.com. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
  19. ^ "Fair: Design Days Dubai 2015". gallery-fumi-5e3e86.webflow.io. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
  20. ^ "Design Miami/Basel". Icon. 19 June 2015.
  21. ^ Magazine, Wallpaper* (3 May 2016). "'Tra L'Occhio e L'Ombra': Sam Orlando Miller gets illusory at Gallery Fumi". Wallpaper*. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
  22. ^ "Fair: The Salon Art + Design 2017". www.galleryfumi.com. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
  23. ^ "exhibitions / art fairs, ammann//gallery › ammann gallery". ammann-gallery.com. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
  24. ^ "Reconsidering Canon". Design Museum. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
  25. ^ "Now and Then | 10 YEARS OF COLLECTABLE CREATIVITY". Gallery Libby Sellers. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
  26. ^ FUMI, Gallery. "Sam Orlando Miller: Sentiero dei Viandanti | Path of the Wayfarers at Gallery FUMI". Retrieved 22 February 2021.
  27. ^ "At Home, 2020 – DANIELLA ON DESIGN". Retrieved 22 February 2021.
  28. ^ "design museum gent explores color in contemporary design with 'kleureyck' exhibition". designboom | architecture & design magazine. 2 June 2020. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
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