Jan Miller
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Education
1986-88 Slade School of Art
University College London
Post-Graduate   Mixed Media

1982-86 Gray's School of Art
Aberdeen, Scotland
BA (Hons) Fine Art: 2:1 Sculpture

Shortlist
2018 Bridport Poetry Prize Not Land

Recent Experience
TATE 2014-19
  • Apr 19 TATE Circuit Test, Risk Change publication
  • Oct 17 TATE Circuit Test Risk Change Commissioned Report
  • Mar 17 Facilitator Test Risk Change Conf. Nottingham Contemporary
  • Nov 16 Facilitator Space & MOSTYN’s Festival of Creative Disobedience : Chaos Room
  • 2014-16 Lead Artist/Project Manager MOSTYN Digital Project
  • TATE Circuit blog
  • Nov 15 Artist & On Collaboration
  • Nov 14 Film Facilitator Gallery 1

Dec 18  HeArt of Glass Suicide Chronicles Documentation (ongoing)

Mar 18  Curator/Fundraiser International Women’s Day North Wales Women’s Centre
Castpals drama group, launched, supported by National Theatre Wales’ TEAM

Sept 17 HeArt of Glass Army of Beauty Baa Baa Baric

Jan-Jul 17: Community Associate
National Theatre Wales; Lifted By Beauty: Adventures in Dreaming

National Theatre Wales
  • 2017 Community Associate
    National Theatre Wales Lifted By Beauty: Adventures in Dreaming
  • 2014 Creative Assistant Big Democracy Project
  • 2013/14 Community Engagement Associate
         
TEAM Volunteer/
Key Member 2009-18
  • 2017/18 TEAM Artist Facilitator North Wales Women’s Centre
  • 2015 Facilitator Film Team/Youth Arts Network Cymru
  • 2014 TEAM Evaluator
  • 2012 Key member TEAM Panel
  • 2010 TEAM volunteer The Beach
  • 2009 Founder Film Team

Mar 16: Speaker Jumping the Barrier, engage Cymru Natural History Museum Cardiff

Voluntary - Present
  • Mentor Post-TATE Circuit
  • Founder/Facilitator Film Team
  • Mentor Castpals drama group

Recent Works
  • 2019 Chalk-Filled Skies: poem
  • 2018 Not Land: poem
  • 2017 Eclipse: large format C-type
  • 2015 People are Trash/You Talk, I Listen with Peter Slania: sound
  • 2014 TATE Circuit Gallery 1: Portraits for Beddwyr Williams’ Glitch Wallpaper
  • 2013 TATE Circuit/MOSTYN Commission l: Bathing Machine No.6 installation LLAWN #02
  • 2013 National Theatre Wales WalesLab Residency, Anglesey
  • 2011 Performing Pixels film poem


PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT
  • 2012 Cultural Olympiad: Creative Animateur, Mark Kermode's Hansel of Film Welsh community engagement & tour
  • Scala Cinema & Arts Centre Facilitator Panasonic Film Nation
  • Co-ordinator Caw & Cyster Cauldrons Men of Harlech.

2011-12 Scala Cinema & Arts Centre
  • Scala Education Consultant
  • Youth Education Co-ordinator
  • Development Co-ordinator
  • Artistic Director 2011 Youth Arts Film Festival
  • Film Literacy Residency

2009-2011 Scala Voluntary Roles
  • Curator Peer-Led Summer School
  • Facilitator: Scala's broadcast of BBC Radio 4's Film Programme
  • Founder Young Film/Film Team
  • Facilitator/Commissioning Panel bloc's 'Performing Pixels'
  • Curator, Oriel Scala IWD
  • Co-founder/Development Officer Oriel Scala Artists' Co-Operative
  • Film Cymru “We've done Enigma Miss, move on!” Paper on teaching film in the classroom

2011-2012 Commissions Denbighshire’s Voluntary Services Council & County Council
  • The Hoodie animation on youth bullying/stereotyping
  • See How Far Can We Go! directed by under-represented girls
  • Intergenerational Community Conference documentary.

2005 Founder Jan Miller Photography

Selected Previous Employment
  • 2002-05 ChildLine Cymru Wales
  • 2001 Lecturer, Llandrillo College
  • 1998-2000 Children born
  • 1993-98 Research Co-ordinator QMW University of London
  • 1990-91 Administrator, Sensible Footwear Theatre Company
  • 1986-90 Chelsea Hospital for Women/Queen Charlotte's London
  • 1989-90 Camerawork, London

Selected Exhibitions: Jan Kerr 1987-91
  • Art in General New York
  • BBC/Arts Council 1 Minute TV
  • Museum of Modern Art Oxford Signs of the Times: sound-work
  • Cambridge Darkroom From Moment to Moment: commission
  • Edinburgh Fringe Film Festival A Million Hours of Potato Time
  • Museum of Modern Art Oxford Open Self-Portrait as a Number
  • 32nd London Film Festival National Film Theatre England
  • London Film-Makers Co-Op Slade Post-Graduate Show : Multi-projection/sound installation
  • Glasgow International Film Festival Volition: film installation
  • Riverside Studios London Bruce McLean's Maginot Line
  • South London Gallery Spectrum Photography Open
  • Whitechapel East End Open Studios SPACE Studios London
  • AVE Audio Visual Festival Arnheim, Holland sound-work

​Permanent Collections
  • Tate Archives
  • The Women's Sound Archive​

Artist's Statement
Using text, image and sound I explore landscape, language, gender and class.


Selected CPD
  • 2018 RHS Schools Campaign
  • 2014-17 Arts Awards Gold, Silver Bronze, Arts Council Wales
  • 2015 Artist Facilitator, Bangor
  • 2014 Art Works - PROTECT Safeguarding in the Arts
  • 2014 National Theatre Wales Evaluation
  • 2013 Artist as Learner Engage Cymru/MOSTYN supported by National Theatre Wales’ TEAM
  • 2013 Engage Conference Extraordinary Change for ACW
  • 2012 National Theatre Wales Leadership & Participation 1 & 2
  • 2012 FILMCLUB for schools
  • 2006 Foundation in Digital Media University of Wales
  • 2005/9 Denbighshire C.C. Parent Governor training
  • 2004 ChildLine in Partnerships with Schools (C.H.I.P.S.)
  • 2003 RNIB/ChildLine Deaf Aware
  • 2000/2 Llandrillo College Wales Women into Business

1991-6
  • Channel 4/ London Film & Video Development Agency (LFVDA): Video Tape Editor
  • Birkbeck College London: Screenwriting, Media 100 digital editing, Video Engineering
  • Channel 4, Carlton TV, LFVDA Foundation in Video & Television
  • Greater London Arts Board Arts Management
Referees
Mark Storor, Artist/Director
Contact details on request

Devinda de Silva, Head of Collaboration
National Theatre Wales
30 Castle Arcade Cardiff CF10 1BW
029 2025 3070
devindadesilva@nationaltheatrewales.org

Dr Karen Heald Lecturer/Mentor
07899 948 996 info@karenheald.co.uk