$Galerie Barbara Thumm \ Johnny Miller – The Nature of Nature$

\Johnny MillerThe Nature of Nature01.07. - 29.07.2023

Johnny Miller, *1962 in Newcastle, England,
lives and works in Osaka, Japan

Exhibition views: Marjorie Brunet Plaza

Gallery Barbara Thumm is pleased to present the fourth solo exhibition with Johnny Miller.

Since the early nineties, when Johnny Miller travelled to Japan to study the ancient craft of Hokusai, the acclaimed British artist has continuously developed his mastery of printmaking and specifically of woodcuts. The show presents Millers latest series of large scale pints of sculls. The motive in its simplicity is depicted in a highly sensual and very painterly declination of coloured layers. Already in his earlier series, The Ghost Horses, Miller worked with the themes of memento mori and nature, referring to art historical references, ranging from baroque vanitas paintings to the seriality of Warhol.
At the entrance to the exhibition, a Zebra is depicted, standing in a hallucinatory tropical landscape, in amazement of its own abundance of live.

Exhibition Views

$Galerie Barbara Thumm \ Johnny Miller – The Nature of Nature$

Works

$Galerie Barbara Thumm \ Johnny Miller – The Nature of Nature \ WT Zebra Work (2023)$

Johnny Miller

WT Zebra Work (2023)

Mixed media woodcut and paint stretched on stretcher frame
190 x 280 x 3 cm

$Galerie Barbara Thumm \ Johnny Miller – The Nature of Nature \ Skull #1 (2023)$

Johnny Miller

Skull #1 (2023)

From the series: Landscape & Memory
Woodcut and acrylic on archival watercolor paper
114 x 108 cm

$Galerie Barbara Thumm \ Johnny Miller – The Nature of Nature \ Skull #2 (2023)$

Johnny Miller

Skull #2 (2023)

From the series: Landscape & Memory
Woodcut, acrylic
114 x 108 cm

$Galerie Barbara Thumm \ Johnny Miller – The Nature of Nature \ Skull #3 (2023)$

Johnny Miller

Skull #3 (2023)

From the series: Landscape & Memory
Woodcut, sumi, acrylic on archival watercolor paper
109,5 x 113,5 cm

$Galerie Barbara Thumm \ Johnny Miller – The Nature of Nature \ Skull #4 (2023)$

Johnny Miller

Skull #4 (2023)

From the series: Landscape & Memory
Woodcut and sumi on archival watercolor paper
120 x 114 cm

$Galerie Barbara Thumm \ Johnny Miller – The Nature of Nature \ Skull #5 (2023)$

Johnny Miller

Skull #5 (2023)

From the series: Landscape & Memory
woodcut, acrylic sumi on archival watercolor paper
109 x 114 cm

$Galerie Barbara Thumm \ Johnny Miller – The Nature of Nature \ Skull #6 (2023)$

Johnny Miller

Skull #6 (2023)

From the series: Landscape & Memory
Woodcut on archival paper
114 x 114 cm

$Galerie Barbara Thumm \ Johnny Miller – The Nature of Nature \ Skull #7 (2023)$

Johnny Miller

Skull #7 (2023)

From the series: Landscape & Memory
Woodcut, acrylic on archival watercolor paper
110 x 114 cm

$Galerie Barbara Thumm \ Johnny Miller – The Nature of Nature \ Skull #8 (2023)$

Johnny Miller

Skull #8 (2023)

From the series: Landscape & Memory
Woodcut, acrylic on archival watercolor paper
114 x 90 cm

$Galerie Barbara Thumm \ Johnny Miller – The Nature of Nature \ Skull #9 (2023)$

Johnny Miller

Skull #9 (2023)

From the series: Landscape & Memory
Woodcut, sumi on acrylic watercolor paper
114 x 108 cm