We acknowledge the Gadigal of the Eora Nation, the traditional custodians of the Country on which the Art Gallery of NSW stands.

Lewis Miller Self-portrait

oil on linen

six panels: 183 x 35.6 cm (overall)

Image courtesy Deakin University Art Collection

Lewis Miller won the 1998 Archibald Prize with a portrait of artist Allan Mitelman. This year he decided to submit a self-portrait.

Miller has painted 30 or 40 self-portraits over the years. This one began while he was working as an artist-in-residence at Mount Scopus College in Melbourne.

Born in Melbourne in 1959, Miller studied at the Victorian College of the Arts. He has been hung in seven previous Archibald Prizes. Another of his portrait entries – of Ron Barassi – is the winner of the Daily Telegraph Sporting Portrait Prize, held in conjunction with the 2000 Archibald Prize.

This Lewis Miller self-portrait is now in the Deakin University Art Collection.