About the work

Still life is at the heart of Milroy’s practice. In the 1980s her paintings featured ordinary objects depicted against an off-white background. Subsequently her imagery expanded to include depictions of objects within settings, as well as landscape, architecture, people, pattern and textiles. 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.

Date and country of birth

1959, CA

Career Highlights

Milroy’s work is held in several public collections, including Tate, UK, Frac Occitanie Montpellier, France, Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA, Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan and East African Visual Arts Trust, Kenya. Her solo exhibition Paper Safari at One Off Contemporary Art Gallery, Nairobi in March 2024 featured over 100 drawings selected from the past 30 years, including charcoal, ink, pencil, gouache, monoprint and 3-D drawings in clay. Milroy was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in 2005 and is Professor of Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. Milroy is represented by Kate MacGarry, London.