New to our Collection for 2023: Artworks by Giles Miller Studio
Having admired their work for many years, it gives me great pleasure to announce a collaboration with Giles Miller Studio that sees their stunning etched metal and paper artworks become available to order from our Collection.
For those that may not be familiar with their incredible work, Giles Miller Studio is a UK-based practice creating acclaimed and award-winning work for some of the world’s most prestigious brands and clients including; Stella McCartney, Selfridges, the V&A and the Design Museum.
The studio creates artistically focussed surfaces that bring new meaning to spaces by celebrating the relationship between materials and light. The scope and scale of the studio’s work ranges from miniature individual components to artworks the size of buildings.
Here are a few selected photos of the five etched metal and paper artworks we offer from our Collection.
These artworks in our Collection hold strong symmetry with Giles Miller Studio’s Penny-Half Sphere sculpture (below) which brought the studio’s acclaimed surface work into a three dimensional form in the first of their outdoor site-specific sculptures.
Giles works with a team of talented designers, artists and artisan makers to push the boundaries of innovation within the world of art, sculpture and architecture.
The characteristic aesthetic of their work comes from the fusion of technology with the handmade. The resulting complexity of meticulously arranged components creates richness, tactility, depth and allure.
Experimenting with pattern, texture and the reflection of light, Giles and his team create a range of innovative mural surfaces from diverse materials, such as metal, ceramic, plastic and wood.
Giles studied furniture design at Loughborough University and, in the final year of his BA, he started using corrugated cardboard to make furniture for homeless people.
Cardboard was an obvious choice, given its abundance as a waste material but, as he played around with it, he also discovered that cutting and reassembling it in new ways gave rise to subtle patterns and imagery in the ridged surface. This became the foundation of his graduation work, as well as prompting early commissions thereafter.
Giles went on to study a Master’s degree in design products at the Royal College of Art. During this time, Stella McCartney commissioned Giles to apply his cardboard designs to a wall, and it was then that he realised there was a market for this kind of work. So he expanded the concept of light manipulation to generate subtle patterns, and this has become his area of interest and expertise ever since.
"I believe in making things that will change the way we experience the spaces around us. My fascination is in materials and the way they interact with light as well as their surroundings. The technically inquisitive approach we take to each project brings a sense of true originality as well as distinctive richness of character to each piece we produce, and indeed to the spaces they inhabit.”
You can see more photos, find out more details and order any one or more of these five individual artworks right here in our Collection. And if you’d like to see more of Giles Miller’s work or discuss a bespoke commission, please call 07957 627052 or email simon@simonteer.com.
Please note, our prices for these artworks are aligned with Giles Miller Studio, so you won’t find them cheaper elsewhere.
Images courtesy of Giles Miller Studio.