Venn Miles.
From a young age, Venn understood the power of drawing. He learnt to draw because his father could and he saw a magic in being able to explain himself through art.
In the beginning it was a way for Venn to be able to see the world he wanted to see but as he grew and life twisted and became more complex, so did his practice. Venn’s work still holds elements of his childhood imagination but enveloped within is an exposé of a gritty reality. Inspired by everyday people and stories, Venn uses his practice to tell narratives of a mundane ubiquity in the style of an epic tale.
Venn Miles is a self taught visual artist practicing on the Gadigal Land of the Eora Nation (Sydney). Inspired by post modern and political themes, Venn’s practice focuses on figurative and still life subjects. Working in oil, charcoal and ink, Venn’s figurative work challenges notions of the beautiful and the grotesque, pushing beyond the physical human form to represent the soul and psyche.
Previous Works
Select Past Works 2024.
2023 - Livingroom Opera
PREVIOUS GROUP EXHIBITION 2023
Show Notes
The premise of Living Room Opera revolves around the interplay between life and art, challenging the conventional notions that the two exist separately.
The exhibition’s purpose is to suggest that life and art share a common fabric, woven with Mistakes and Honesty and Wonder and Villains and Romance and Tedium and Grandeur and Tragedy. Revealing the concealed connections where art and life converge. To really consider the landscapes and vistas before they’re on the canvas, the quiet moments before a still life and who once sat at that table or put the cigarette in the ashtray. The faces that linger in our memories, now in the Living Room Opera.
In regards to work - draw inspiration from the nuances of existence. Themes such as the performative amongst the mundane (think suburbia, the nuclear family with a perfect lawn), the extraordinary in the banal (the natural world), unexpected moments of drama, grandeur in simplicity, and other subtle elements may naturally find their way into your art that refer back to unnoticed magic in everyday life.
- Words by Venn Miles, HAKE.
