LesleyMay Miller BAHons SSA short CV
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.
with 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
2002 Residency on the Isle of Colonsay
2007 Selected in collaboration with Susan Nuttgens for a tribute to Patrick Geddes.
2010 ‘A Sea Road’,’Taking a Line’ collaborative installation with Ross Combe at Dunbar Harbour
2010-11 ArtistBookFairs and Stanza, Poet’s Market
2014 Reading with Elspeth Brown at Poetry Association of Scotland
COLLECTIONS AND COMMISSIONS.
Standard Life.
Church of St. John the Evangelist, Princes St., Edinburgh.
Bank of Scotland.
Leeds Education Authority.
S.E. Wales Arts.
City of Munich, Germany.
St. Cuthbert’s Church, Edinburgh.
Scottish Natural Heritage.
David Lloyd Club, Cardiff.
Archive of Artist Books, Dumfries.
Private collections and commissions in U.K., France and U.S.A.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS.
1996 Aikwood Tower, Selkirk.
1990 Hannah Peschar Gallery, Surrey.
1988 369 Gallery, Edinburgh.
1986 Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh.
RECENT SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS.
2014 'In a Jiffy' SSA Professional Members, Meffan Gallery, Forfar
'Called to Wander' at John Muir Birthplace Museum
2013 Society of Scottish Artists Annual, RSA Gallery, Edinburgh
'Called to Wander' at John Muir Birthplace Museum
2013 Society of Scottish Artists Annual, RSA Gallery, Edinburgh
Soundscape at John Muir Birthplace Museum
2012 The Artist Book Group, Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh
2011 VisualArtsScotland Annual
John Muir Birthplace Museum
2010 ‘Small’ ArtistBooks, Scottish Poetry Library
Loretto Gallery, Musselburgh
2009 ‘Words on Canvas’, National Gallery, Edinburgh
2009 ‘Place, Identity and Memory’, ArtistBooks, Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries and Galloway
PeterPotter Gallery, Haddington
2008 BordersSculptors at Inverewe and Priorwood National Trust Gardens
The Owl and Lion Gallery, Edinburgh
2007 ‘The Outer Fringe’, Seaside Artists (curator and exhibitor)
2006 GR Gallery, Dunbar
2005 Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
2004/5 BuyDesign, Harestanes, Scottish Borders
2003 AnTobar, Isle of Mull
2002 Zodiac Artists’ Book and Prints, Association Andre Lazare, France
‘Images of an Island, 6 artists on Colonsay’, London
2001 ‘Rencontre Europeenne de Sculpture’, Montauban, France
‘With These Hands,With These Eyes’ Wynd Gallery, Melrose
2000 ‘Connections 2000’ Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2000 Broughton Gallery
1999 Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh.
‘Sculpture in the Sun’, Teviot water garden, Jedburgh
Chatton Gallery, Northumberland
1998 ‘Scottish Spirit’, Arthur Ross Gallery, Philadelphia and touring in U.S.A.
Chatton Gallery, Northumberland.
1997 St. Colum Cille Exhibition, Fionnphort, Mull.
Kirkhouse,Traquair
Kailzie Gardens, Peebles
1996 ‘100%’ Gracefield Arts Centre and Stranraer Museum.
Summerhouse Exhibition, Dryburgh.
1995 The Garden Gallery, Stockbridge, Hampshire.
‘Elements of Change’, Scottish Ceramics Touring Exhibition.
Hannah Peschar Gallery, Surrey
Fax Art, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop
1994 Society of Scottish Artists Annual. Awarded the prize: ‘Art for a Better World’.
Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow.
‘Witnesses of Existence’, Sarajevo
R.I.A.S. Conference, Norrie-Toch Gallery
‘Un Voyage Creatif avec Patrick Geddes’, Clermont l’Herault, France.
‘Sculpture Trail by the Tweed’, Tweed Festival Exhibitions.
Scottish Gallery Garden Exhibition, Greywalls, Gullane.
1993 Installation at Society of Scottish Artists Annual, R.S.A., Edinburgh.
Invited sculpture in George Wyllie Exhibition, Lillie Gallery, Glasgow
Franco-Scottish Exhibition, Prefecture de l’Herault, Montpellier, France.
Brighton Festival.
Scottish Border Arts Network, Galashiels
1992 The Collective Gallery East European Tour.
‘X-A Window on the S.S.A.’, Crawford Arts Centre, St. Andrews.
Art’92, Islington Art Fair, London.
‘Gambit’, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop at the 369 Gallery.
