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Russell Mills Russell Mills consciously defies and avoids categorisation as he works in all mediums that he considers to be appropriate for the ideas being explored. He paints, creates sit specific multimedia installations, designs stage sets and lighting and has produced influential and innovative record and book covers for Brian Eno, David Sylvian, Peter Gabriel, Nine Inch Nails, Samuel Beckett, Ian McEwan and Milan Kundera amongst many others. He is Visiting Tutor at the Royal College of Art, Honorary Visiting Professor at Glasgow School of Art and regularly lectures in universities in the UK and abroad. He records sound environments for installations, has released 2 CDs with his recording project Undark and is currently recording a third CD; Undark have also performed at various experimental music festivals in the UK Europe and his music and sound design has been used in radio and TV. All Mills’ work, whether it be painting, installation or sound, is contextually anchored whilst being driven by the primacy of process. Many of his works are inspired and informed by the sometimes-uneasy symbiosis between man and the environment, examining how we are shaped by it and how we reciprocally effect its change. The component elements of his installations are designed so as to change ceaselessly and imperceptibly, so that a visitor never experiences the same conditions of lighting, sound or sculptural intervention twice, thereby mirroring nature’s endless flux. Selected recent exhibitions include: Words by Beckett, Cathill Gallery, London (2006); Legacy, The Beacon, Whitehaven (2007); Dialogue Boxes, Centre for Visual Arts Gallery, Scunthorpe (2008); Who Do You Think You Are? Dulwich Picture Gallery, London (2008); The Art of Lost Words, the German Gymnasium, London and touring (2009); Draw, the Gulbenkian Galleries, Royal College of Art, London (2010); Sedition: An Uprising of Cumbrian Artists, Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle (2010-11); Forward To Far, Armitt Museum and Library, Ambleside (2010). Selected recent installations include: Hold, Palazzo delle Papesse Centre for Contemporary Art, Siena; Skin (2004), Elephant Yard, Kendal, Blue Tears, Silo Espace Culturale for the Centre of Contemporary Art, Oporto, Portugal (2005); Head, Armitt Museum and Library, Ambleside (2006-07). Address Telephone Website |
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