GODFREY MILLER
As a committed exponent of European abstraction and teacher, Godfrey Miller was an influential figure in art circles in Sydney throughout the 1950s. Miller was born in New Zealand, apprenticed to architect firm Salmond & Salmond in Dunedin and attended the Otago School of Art in Dunedin (1910). He became registered with the New Zealand Institute of Architects in 1917 and moved to Melbourne in 1918, enrolling at the National Gallery School, associating with the revitalised Australian Art Association and becoming a member of the Victorian Artists Society (1929).
He travelled to London in 1929, studying at the Slade School of Art (1929-31) and discovered Theosophy and Wassily Kandinsky Concerning the Spirituality in Art. Miller remained in England for ten years. He had arrived there as a naturalistic painter but departed a modernist, committed to abstraction and art’s potential to reveal spiritual truths Miller’s paintings typically consist of forms and objects fractured into small Cubist-inspired faceted planes, reassembled as abstracted images.
His practice and influence was acknowledged in a retrospective exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria (1959) and he has work in the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne and the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
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