Both a notable writer and artist, Harland Miller has contributed to the Abstract Art and Figurative Art movement in the 21st century. Born in Yorkshire in 1964 and currently living in London, he studied at the Chelsea College of Art, graduating in 1988 with an MA in Art History. After receiving his degree, Miller traveled extensively throughout London, Germany, and the United States. In 2000, he achieved critical acclaim for his first novel, Slow Down Arthur, Stick to Thirty, which featured a young boy who travels around England on adventures with a David Bowie impersonator. In 2001 Miller produced a series of paintings based on the dust jackets of dog-eared, […]

Ford’s “Condemned” memorializes a Carolina Parakeet, declared extinct in 1939.  By the 1880’s the birds’ numbers suffered at the hands of farmers who considered them an agricultural pest.  Flocks plagued orchards, destroying fruit in search of seeds. “Condemned” incorporates a quote from the American serial killer Carl Panzram (1891 – 1930), who wrote to capital punishment protesters while on death row in 1929, “I wish that you all had one neck and that I had my hands on it.”  Ford appropriates this quote, which is prominently scrawled above the Carolina Parakeet.  It is ambiguous whether these words are the voice of a farmer or one of the birds, as each […]