Artwork details

Artist

Title

Hell...It's Only Forever

Description

British artist and novelist Harland Miller is best known for painting canvases that resemble penguin book covers. The motif allows him to explore the relationships between words, images, and the process of producing meaning—themes he embraces in his sculptures and mixed-media works, as well. Miller is interested in authors such as Edgar Allan Poe and Ernest Hemingway and artists including Ed Ruscha, Mark Rothko, Anselm Kiefer, and Robert Rauschenberg. On his paintings, he occasionally invents witty book titles—like Hate’s Outta Date! (2017) or International Lonely Guy (2002), for example—to send up classical literary tropes. Celebrities including Ed Sheeran and Rachel Weisz have collected Miller’s work, which has sold at auction for six-figure prices. Miller has exhibited around the world, with solo shows in London, Hong Kong, Berlin, Paris, and New York, among other cities.

Date

2020

Medium

Screenprint in colours

Edition

Signature

Signed

Dimensions

Status

Available

Price

£18,000.00

Harland Miller

Harland Miller is a British writer and artist working both in Europe and America since the 1980s. In 2001 Harland Miller produced a series of paintings based of the dust jackets of Penguin books. By combining the motif inherent in the Penguin book, Miller found a way to marry aspects of Pop Art, abstraction and figurative painting at once, with his writer’s love of text. The ensuing images are humorous, sardonic and nostalgic at the same time, while the painting style hints at the dog-eared, scuffed covers of the Penguin classics themselves.