Lesley-May Miller

If The Shore
Colvin Street
Dunbar
E. Lothian

lesleymaymiller@onetel.com

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Style:
Text, particularly poetry, is often integrated in my work, sometimes on ceramic paving 'maps'. As part of this theme I have used trees as books, the 'tree of life' becoming life's travel book. Ceramic 'leaves' with short poems or quotations can hang on trees. I continue the theme by making sculptural boats, having made a coracle and, while working in France, a reed boat entitled 'L Arche Philosophique' .

Artist's Statement:

The influence of travel, often in the form of a pilgrimage, emerges in my work which is both figurative and abstract in its depiction of life's journey. I use cIay to make symbolic bound figures which suggest a trapped free spirit, reflecting observations of the human predicament. Marks on the figures represent cIues or signs for them to find their way. These signs have reappeared on abstract ceramic and copper 'map' pieces which may be set in the landscape or, on a smaller scale, simply hung on a wall.

Selected C.V.

1977-81 Honours degree in ceramics and printmaking at Edinburgh College of Art.

1981-82 Post-graduate diploma, Edinburgh College of Art.

1982-83 Cycled to India.

1987 Founder member of Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop.

1988 Elected to professional membership of Society of Scottish Artists.

1991 Elected to the Board of Directors of the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop.

1993 Set up own Sculpture garden in the Borders.

1994 Collaborative proposals and exhibitions for Border Sculpture Trail.

1995 Artist in Residence at Wysing Arts, Bourn, Cambridge.

1992-98 Series of Sculpture projects in collaboration with Kenny Munro in Montpellier, France.

1997 Permanent installation of the 'Arts Cabinet' in the Scots College, Montpellier

1997 'Art in the Woods' Poetry performance.

2001 'The Stones of Scotland' collaborative sculpture with George Wyllie & Kenny Munro