 Noel Miller is an Australian artist best known for his charcoals and multi media drawings as well as his woodcut prints.
 Noel Miller is an artist who took up painting and drawing later in life. Until 2002, he worked in health politics for organisations such as the Australian Medical Association. Experiencing a true epiphany one Sunday afternoon in a particularly boring board meeting,
Miller says: "I stood up and told them I was going. I was fed up. They looked at me with derisive smiles on their faces and so I had to go through with it. I hadn't contemplated it prior to that moment. I went home and said to my partner that I had just quit my job and he said to me: "now you can do what you always wanted to do". So, I started to paint full time. I love my life."
Miller paints in the outback where he holds annual Artists' Camps with his friend, artist Annabel Tully. He works in a variety of media. His charcoals, which he calls his iconic women, are highly prized by collectors, and his landscapes of the Australian outback evoke strong love of country. He is setting up a series of artist residencies for Australia Zoo and he shows a collection of his Antarctic work each year on board the MV Discovery in Antarctica where he spends three months of the year.
Miller teaches multi-media work, encompassing printmaking, collage and drawing throughout Queensland. He won the 2006 Warwick Prize and has been a finalist in the Norvill Prize for Landscape, the Blake Prize (2005 and 2006) and the Jacaranda Drawing Prize (2004).
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