BENNETT MILLER

Bennett Miller is a sculptor and installation artist from Perth, Western Australia. After spending five years obsessed with mini golf, recreating the Iraqi theatre of war across nine different installations (Golf War, 2003 - 2007), Miller has been working almost exclusively with dachshund dogs. He has staged his large scale performance work 'Dachshund UN' in numerous locations, both nationally (Next Wave Festival, Melbourne, 2010; Now Right Now, PICA, Perth, 2011; Local Positioning Systems, MCA, Sydney, 2012) and internationally (Fierce Festival, Birmingham, UK, 2012). Miller has also held solo exhibitions at IASKA (2006), Canberra Contemporary Art Space (2007) and Chalk Horse (2009). Bennett Miller had a busy 2012, undertaking a residency in New York on behalf of the Australia Council, exhibiting in the first installment of IASKA's Spaced: Art Out of Place at the Fremantle Art Centre and in the prestigious New 12, at ACCA, Melbourne and restaging the Dachshund UN at the MCA in Sydney.