Ali Miller is the latest artist to join Skylark Galleries, showing in the Oxo Tower space. Ali grew up in London, and studied fine art/sculpture at Brighton University, graduating in 2003, and her work was recently selected in the touring
Young Masters show, as featured in the
Independent. We welcome her to the team.
"I am a great admirer of Skylark Galleries, and was honoured when asked to join the team. It is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a likeminded group of artists that have come together to promote their work and run a gallery in the heart of London.
"My work is fundamentally an amalgamation of personal experiences, family history, religion and identity, exploring the relationship between the individual and the material.
"Memory for me is a source of euphoric inspiration and a Pandora's Box of the more remote qualities of human nature. While my work might signify a nostalgic reminiscence of years past, it also carries with it the weight of pressures and experience of real life. I have drawn from the obstacles placed before me in life in a desire to express and comprehend them. I believe memories shape my life and art first and foremost.
"The works are an expression of my design perspective and interest in family history, an unusual combination but one that I hope succeeds in creating an intimacy you will enjoy."
For more information about Ali's work see
www.alimiller.co.uk.
Pictured: Ali Miller, Summer Holiday.
Ceramics Show is at the Maltings, Farnham, Surrey GU9 7QR on 21-22 November (Saturday 10am-5pm, Sunday 10am-4.30pm). Contact Deana for a special 2 for 1 entrance voucher.
"Memory for me is a source of euphoric inspiration and a Pandora's Box of the more remote qualities of human nature. While my work might signify a nostalgic reminiscence of years past, it also carries with it the weight of pressures and experience of real life. I have drawn from the obstacles placed before me in life in a desire to express and comprehend them. I believe memories shape my life and art first and foremost.
Skylark Galleries are joining with 50 other independent shops, restaurants, cafes and bars at Gabriel's Wharf and Oxo Tower Wharf in the South Bank Sparkle, which opens this weekend and runs up to Christmas.
South Bank Sparkle continues from Tuesday to Sunday, 11am to 6pm, until Christmas, with many shops staying open late on Thursday evenings. Visit www.coinstreet.org/shopeatdrink for offers, events and competitions.
Meet featured artist Ruty Benjamini at Skylark 2 this Thursday evening (5 November) from 6pm to 8pm where she will be on hand to talk over a glass of wine about her exhibition of ceramic works to the sounds of boats passing up and down the Thames, while fireworks light up the night sky.
