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21/1/2002

Harland Miller

White Cube, London

White Cube is pleased to present a new group of paintings by Harland Miller. Miller is perhaps best known as a writer, coming to the fore with his recent novel, 'Slow down Arthur, Stick to Thirty'. This exhibition will focus on Miller's work as a painter and will include a selection of his recent paintings based on the dust jackets of classic Penguin paperbacks.


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"To Jean, A Small Memento of a Great Effort, Love Alan"

23.01.02 - 02.03.02 White Cube is pleased to present a new group of paintings by Harland Miller. Miller is perhaps best known as a writer, coming to the fore with his recent novel, 'Slow down Arthur, Stick to Thirty'. This exhibition will focus on Miller's work as a painter and will include a selection of his recent paintings based on the dust jackets of classic Penguin paperbacks.

Penguin paperbacks were instrumental in the democratisation of the published word, first appearing in the summer of 1935. Costing only sixpence, the equivalent price of a packet of cigarettes, they covered biography, crime and fiction and were colour coded for easy classification. The colour of the band on the cover denoted the type of book - biography being dark blue, crime green and fiction orange. These reasonable books became instant classics, passing through generations of readers symbolising a kind of barter or gift economy between friends and family. Whilst Miller's paintings take the form of Penguin paperbacks, their simple bands of colour also, curiously, reflect the colour field painting of the 1950s. Although his canvases are visually emphatic, reflecting a kind of Abstract Expressionist flatness, they also blur the boundaries between the visual and the textual since they are ultimately representational - a kind of hybrid activity that reflects Miller's career as a whole being both a writer and a visual artist. Painterly and soft-edged, his pictures evoke the way books and paperbacks in particular become personalised with the marks of their owners where the dog-ears, coffee stains and inscriptions (such as the one chosen for the title of the exhibition) transform the universal into something intensely personal.

In 2000 Miller exhibited at Fig.-1 and for this exhibition he produced a novella based on his sister who suffers from an obsessive-compulsive disorder after discovering a box full of Polaroid photographs of the knobs on a cooker that she had taken. The photographs were his sister's method of checking whether the cooker had been turned off after she had left for work and Miller exhibited them alongside the transcript of the short story that he wove around them.

Miller studied painting at Chelsea College of Art and after graduating with an MA, left England to live abroad, working as an artist in New York, Berlin and New Orleans. His first novel, Slow Down Arthur, Stick to Thirty was published by Fourth Estate. Miller is currently writing a new novel, 'Reclaim the Night', based on the true story of a community of transsexual prostitutes living in Leeds during the time of the Yorkshire Ripper. He is currently writer in residence at the ICA where he is producing an illustrated anthology of short stories by Edgar Allen Poe, as well as a series of Poe-related events that will start on Poe's birthday, October 8, next year.

Preview Tuesday 22nd January 6-8pm

For further information please contact Alexandra Bradley or Honey Luard on 020 7930 5373.

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