Daisy Douglas Miller

Lives and works in London, UK

Artist statement

Daisy Miller explores human presence in the landscape through semi-figurative, representational painting. On canvas, she dissect a melancholic nostalgia for the natural environment, informed by both personal experience and a series of digital archives documenting rural communities. Like the landscape, archives are structures that document and store time in different ways, they are repositories for the past and preservers of memory. The paintings articulate an in-between space, a hinterland suspended between past, present, and future, describing the entanglement of memory, reality, and imagined encounters. Miller paints with as few touches as possible to avoid imposing herself onto the image. A mutation occurs when an image from the past is brought into the present:it no longer belongs to the moment it was taken from, nor does it adhere to its new context. It exists in a separate, dislocated space. This dislocation, and its elasticity, provides an entry point into a new liminal territory and serves as a key to a way of working. Miller uses semi-figurative painting as a form of archeology and as a means of exploring the fragile relationship between memory, time, and place. The artist constructs liminal, emotionally resonant spaces that preserve, reinterpret, and question the human presence within changing landscapes.

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