Miik Green
“I view each painting as an experiment rather than anything calculated, and that’s the way I prefer it.”
Miik Green is a multidisciplinary visual artist and researcher whose work merges art and science through kinetic material explorations. Grounded in the microscopic world—cells, fungi, radiolaria, and organic symmetry—Green transforms these micro-forms into reflective resin- and aluminium-based sculptures and high-gloss panel works that evoke movement, tension, and sensuality in controlled abstraction Educated with an Advanced Diploma in Industrial Design, a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Hons) at Edith Cowan University and a PhD in Arts Practice from Curtin University supported by an Australian Postgraduate Award, his research-led practice explores material resistance, equilibrium, and material transformation in art-making.
An advocate and educator for contemporary arts in WA, Green is an associate editor of two international art journals and former chair of Artsource, the state's peak visual arts body. His major works include the award-winning Thicket 018, constructed of six-millimetre aluminium rods and displayed at Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe in 2019, earning him the inaugural Alcoa Aluminium Sculpture Award. His art is in major collections such as Artbank (VIC, NSW, WA), university collections, hospitals, and corporate collections—including Macquarie University, Edith Cowan University, BHP Billiton, Royal Perth Hospital and others—and he is represented by Linton & Kay Contemporary in WA (and other galleries nationally and internationally).
Havenist Magazine, Spring/Summer 2024/25
Image: Jody D’Arcy
About the Artist
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*1978, lives and works in Perth
2019
Lecturer – Art Education, Edith Cowan University
Australia Council Panellist (2017–2020)
2018
Diploma of Education – Edith Cowan University
2017
Artsource – Board Member (Chair)
2016
Associate Editor – The International Journal of New Media, Technology, and the Arts
Associate Editor – The International Journal of Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts
Artsource – Board Member (Chair)
2015
PhD – Curtin University (Doctor of Philosophy, Art)
Artsource – Board Member (Elected)
2014
PhD Candidate – Curtin University
Sessional Staff, Visual Art – CIT (WA)
2011
Bachelor of Arts (Honours, First Class) – Curtin University
2002
Bachelor of Visual Arts, Painting – Edith Cowan University
2000
Advanced Diploma of Industrial Design – WA School of Art and Design
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
PRISM – Linton & Kay Fine Art, WA
EX – Le Pavé d’Orsay, Paris, FR
2018
EX – Le Pavé d’Orsay, Paris, FR
2017
CONTRA – Linton & Kay Fine Art, WA
2016
Pigments and Pathogens – Linton & Kay Fine Art, WA
2015
Poet Blood / Artist Sweat – Linton & Kay Contemporary, WA
2014
LIMBO – Flinders Lane Gallery, VIC
2013
SPILLOVER – Linton & Kay Contemporary, WA
New Work – Stella Downer Fine Art, NSW
2011
Sexy Blobs – Linton & Kay Contemporary, WA
2010
New Work – Stella Downer Fine Art, NSW
2008
New Work – Stella Downer Fine Art, NSW
Happy Mistakes – Gallery East, WA
2006
Sex Cells – Gallery East, WA
2004
Sensual by Nature – Gallery East, WA
Sensuality and the Sublime – Dianne Tanzer, VIC
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
Sculpture by the Sea – Cottesloe, WA
2018
Sensual Nature – Fremantle Arts Centre, WA
ATTRA Light Festival – Claremont, WA
2017
SixZeroFiveOne – Studio 281, WA
2016
Flow – Central TAFE, WA
2015
CROSSGRAIN – Linton & Kay, WA
Guildford Grammar Exhibition – WA
COUNTERFORCE – Linton & Kay, WA
2014
BETA BLOCKER – John Curtin Gallery, WA
Cossack Art Prize (Invited Artist) – WA
SEDIMENTATION – Linton & Kay, WA
Victoria Park Art Award – WA
2013
Aesthetica Art Prize Exhibition – York, UK
Hazelhurst Award – NSW
St Hilda’s Art Fair – WA
St John of God Hospital Art Prize – WA
Guildford Grammar Exhibition – WA
2012
Celebrate – Linton & Kay Contemporary, WA
Form, Process, Materiality – Oats Factory, WA
2011
BigDiverse – Cultural Centre, Kalamunda, WA
Unnatural Phenomena – John Curtin Gallery, WA
2010
Melbourne Art Fair – VIC
Sculpture Survey 2010 – Gomboc Gallery, WA
Sculpture Show – Bassendean Council, WA
Sculpture by the Sea – Cottesloe, WA
Sculpture Survey & Painting Show – Linton & Kay Galleries, WA
2009
Paint – Stella Downer Fine Art, NSW
Sculpture by the Sea – Cottesloe, WA
Sculpture by the Sea – Bondi, NSW
2008
Closet Circus – Bunbury Regional Gallery, WA
New Works – Melbourne Art Fair, VIC
YAWA Awards – WA
Artitude 2008 – WA
2007
Great Little Christmas Show – Gallery East, WA
Pulse 2 – Hellfire Gallery, Esperance, WA
2006
Melbourne Art Fair – VIC
Miniatures – Gallery East, WA
2005
Sexy Fungus – Stella Downer Fine Art, NSW
2003
Finely Grated – The Church Gallery, WA
New Works, New Faces – Perth Galleries, WA
2002
64 Degrees – Edith Cowan University, WA
2000
Conception – Western Australian Museum, WA
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Collections
Ritz Carlton Perth
Artbank (VIC, NSW, WA)
City of Belmont
City of Joondalup
Macquarie University
Edith Cowan University
Royal Perth Hospital
BHP Billiton
Holmes à Court Collection
The Horn Collection
Crown Casino
Private collections – Australia-wide and internationalCommissions, Grants and Awards
2019
Public Art Commission – Ritz Carlton Building, WA
Sculpture by the Sea – Alcoa Scholarship, WA
2018
ATTRA – Claremont Council Grant for New Sculptural Work
Hutchins Art Prize – Finalist, TAS
2015
iPREP Award – Edith Cowan University
BETA BLOCKER Touring Exhibition – Art on the Move
New Sculptural Works – Riverview Church, Burswood, WA
2014
Artflight – For LIMBO solo exhibition, VIC
2013
Greg Combie Humanities Research Award – Curtin University
Aesthetica Art Prize – Shortlist
2012
Australian Postgraduate Award Scholarship – WA
New Sculptural Works – Claremont, WA
2011
Shortlisted – New Sculptures, City of Stirling, WA
Public Commission – BHP Billiton Building, WA
Grant – John Curtin Gallery (with Chris Malajczuk) for Unnatural Phenomena
Public Commission
2010
Public Commission – Coolbinia Primary School, WA
Artflight – For NSW Solo Exhibition
Shortlisted Commission – Churchlands Senior High School, WA
2009
Sculpture by the Sea – Scholarship Prize
2008
Artflight – WA
YAWA Award – WA
2005
Public Commission – Untitled Sculptures for Arccon Architects, WA
Artflight – WA
