Biography of lisa milroy

Canadian artist (born 1959)

Lisa Milroy (born 16 January 1959 in Vancouver, British Columbia)^[1] is an Anglo-Canadian artist known for her still life paintings of everyday objects.

Biography of lisa milroy

In the 1980s, Milroy’s paintings featured ordinary objects depicted against an off-white background. Subsequently her imagery expanded, which led to a number of different series including landscapes, buildings and portraits.^[1] As her approaches to still life diversified, so did her manner of painting, giving rise to a range of stylistic innovations.

Throughout her practice, Milroy has been fascinated by the relation between stillness and movement, and the nature of making and looking at painting.

In 1977, aged 18, Milroy travelled to Paris and studied at the Paris-Sorbonne University.^[2] In 1978, she moved to London for a foundation course at Saint Martin's School of Art and gained her BFA at Goldsmiths College, University of London in 1982.^[2]