Dr. MITCH MILLER ILLUSTRATOR Studio 032, Wasps Ltd., 77 Hanson Street, , G31 2HF b. , 1976 Based in: Glasgow T: 07919 035 037 E: [email protected] Tw: @Dialectographer www.dialectograms.co.uk

PROJECTS & RESIDENCIES EDUCATION

Artist/Illustrator, Redrawn: Renewing Clydebank Library, 2011-2015: PhD in Communication Design, June 2015-April 2016. Commission by West Dunbartonshire Library of Art (AHRC Funded) Service to produce a dialectogram of Clydebank’s Central Library as part 2005: Postgraduate Cert, Film Criticism, of discussions around its refurbishment and redesign. Also advising and British Film Institute researching formation of a staff/user group for the redesign process. 1999-2000: Msc. In Social Research Methods, University of , Grad. Artist, The All-Sided Games, Collective Gallery, June 2013-April 2015 School of Social and Political Studies. One of six artists commissioned to produce works for this project. My 1994-1998: MA (Hons) Politics and Modern work involved making dialectograms in Edinburgh and Glasgow of areas History, University of Edinburgh. existing in the shadow of Commonwealth Games past and present.

Illustrator, Nothing is Lost, with Chris Leslie and Alison Irvine, Glasgow Life, May 2013-June 2015. A filmmaker, novelist and illustrator collaborate to document the changing east end of Glasgow before, during, and after the Games.

Co-artist and consultant, Fair Glasgow, T S Beall/Glasgow Museums, January 2013-present. A socially engaged project bringing together PROFESSIONAL AWARDS Scottish travelling showpeople and museums staff to discuss the hidden histories of fairs in Scotland and reinterpret its collection. The group co- World Illustration Awards 2013, curated two December events attended by over 17,000 people. - Overall Winner, New Talent - Category Winner: Research & Knowledge Illustrator/Consultant, Sense-making Representation of a Technology- Communication Enabled Society (SeRTES), October 2011-December 2012. I worked with Sheffield Documentary Film Festival, 2011 a team of researchers from 7 universities who were exploring the Special Selection for Cross-Platform Strand, ‘entanglement’ of digital technology within everyday life. Boswell in Space

Illustrator/Artist in Residence, DRAW DUKE STREET, Market Gallery, October 2012-December 2012. One artist, a team of volunteers, a gallery PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS space reinvented as a drop-in centre – and six weeks to create a 10- Market Gallery Board of Directors (2013-) metre long drawing of a suburban high street in Glasgow Association of Illustrators (2006-) Scottish Artists Union (2013-) Curator/Artist/Organiser, STATIONS OF THE GREEN, People’s HATCH Drawing network (2013-) Palace/New Glasgow Society/The Drouth/, May Reportager (2011-) 2012-May 2013. With Peter McCaughey, Ross Sinclair, Roddy Buchanan, Illustration Research Network (2011-) David Harding, Michael Mersinis and Dave Allen. A rolling project to Drawing Research Network (2011-2014) poetically and politically commemorate Douglas Gordon’s lost mural.

Resident Illustrator, Red Road Cultural Project/Glasgow Museums, REVIEWS & MEDIA APPEARANCES 2009-2012. The project where dialectograms were ‘invented’ – I spent 3 years working with the community at Red Road to draw their intimate, The Culture Studio with Janice Forsyth, BBc professional and public spaces, as they saw them. Radio Scotland –Discussing The Drouth Five- Oh, 2pm 14th January 2014. Illustrator and Documentarian, Boswell in Space, with Emma Lennox, Ewan Sinclair, Gavin Bryan-Tansley, Central Station, , October 2010– Review of Showland on Shireen, BBC Radio March 2011. An unusual work of documentary illustration, podcasting, Scotland by Peter Ross, Peter Geoghegan, filmmaking and cunning web design. Melanie Gow, 20th December 2014.

EXHIBITIONS/EVENTS “Red Road Demolition: Glasgow 2014 chiefs face criticism from local writers and artists Social Materials, Project Space 2: Glasgow School of Art, September denouncing””, featured in article by Annie 2015 Brown in The Daily Record, 12 April 2014. The Drouth Five-Oh, Reid Gallery, Glasgow School of Art, http://tinyurl.com/marc8rx January-February 2015. The AOI Illustration Awards 2013, International Illustration Award “My Process: Mitch Miller” Feature on Winners and Nominees, Somerset House, London, touring to venues in Dialectograms by Madeleine Schmoll, Nuneaton, Guildford, Swansea and Blackpool.2013-14. Central Station, 20 March 2014. http://tinyurl.com/ozfhoqx Behind the Scenes of the Fair, The , 2013

Stations of the Green, New Glasgow Society, April-May 2013 Panelist on discussion of Red Road Flats Red Road: Past/Present/Future, People’s Palace February 2013-May Demolition Plans for Scotland Tonight, 2014. Scottish Television, 3 April 2014 Draw Duke Street, Market Gallery, December-January 2012/13.

Level, , Edinburgh, May 2012 “Stations of the Green”, review by Spaced in the City, The Lighthouse, April 2012 Peter Drew”, Central Station, 31 May Red Road Underground, New Glasgow Society, February-March 2012 http://tinyurl.com/neama3o Poste Restante, an Tobar, August 2011 One Night Stand, The Telfer Gallery, November 2011. “Research & Knowledge Winners”, review Telling Stories (Group Show with Frank Quitely, David Shrigley) Market by Louise O’Reilly, Varoom! Gallery, March 2011. Issue 23, Autumn 2013. How’S The Ghost? Market Gallery, February 2009/an Tobar March 2010. “What lies beneath Glasgow’s Red Road SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Flats”, review of Red Road Underground by Martyn McLaughlin, The Scotsman, Chris Leslie, Alison Irvine, Mitch Miller, (2015) Nothing is Lost, Freight 2 February 2012. Publishing. http://tinyurl.com/oahegwp

Mitch Miller, Games End, Collective/Newspaper Club, 2015 “Urban Legends”, Dialectograms discussed in feature by Derek Bainton, Mitch Miller, Johnny Rodger, (2013) Demolition Proof, Glasgow: Varoom!, Issue 15, Spring 2011 Clydeside Press/New Glasgow Society, “GFF 2010: The Ghost Show”, review of The

Mitch Miller, Johnny Rodger, (2011) Red Cockatoo: James Kelman and Movie Trailer by Becky Bartlett, The Skinny, the Art of Commitment, Sandstone Press. 21 February 2010 http://tinyurl.com/ppxqarp Mitch Miller, Johnny Rodger, Owen Dudley Edwards, (2010) Tartan Pimps: Gordon Brown, Thatcher and the New Scotland, “Behind the Net Curtain” review of Glasgow: Argyll Publishing How’S The Ghost? by Susan Manfield, The Scotsman, 6 March 2009 ,

http://tinyurl.com/o72hy2l FILM AND TV

Illustrator/Consultant, Animated diagrams for BBC Bitesize Revision OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE

Website, BBC Learning, Feb-March 2016. Editor, The Drouth magazine,

Associate Producer/Consultant, Showland: Behind the Scenes of the Fair (2001-present). (working title), Hopscotch Films/BBC Scotland, Broadcast 15 December Associate Lecturer, Arts and Culture, 2014. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04v5yxm The Open University, 2010-2012.

Illustrator, Oscar Marzaroli – Man with a Camera, Hopscotch Films/BBC Visiting Lecturer in Visual Culture, Scotland, Broadcast 1 April 2014. , 2007-2011

Illustration/Animation, Enlighten Up!, Hopscotch Films/BBC Scotland, 23 June 2013. REFERENCES: On request.

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