Diana Miller

Diana Miller’s practice revels in the interplay between intuition and control, where raw, instinctive gestures meet a deliberate impulse to edit, disrupt, deconstruct, and begin again.

New beginnings aren’t incidental for Diana—they’re a way of life. Since immigrating to Australia, and moved homes several times, cycling between upheaval and order. Her paintings hum with this rhythm; each work is a visceral reckoning with chaos that finds its way toward resolution. This push-pull not only drives her process, but it also mirrors her fascination with the psyche, what surfaces and what remains hidden.

With her aesthetic sensibility honed from years of graphic design, Miller rejects pictorial representation in favour of open, emotional inquiry. Her paintings express a compulsion to move, to respond to the insistent pleasures of colour, texture, shape, and material. Working quickly and without preconception, she builds layered compositions from elements she has cut, coloured, shaped, and imagined—an evolving visual lexicon in which past and present remain in dialogue.

Miller’s playful compositions manifest as immersive fields of experience, where meaning emerges through the viewer’s perception. Her work is a vivid celebration of art’s capacity to defy logic—to optimistically leap into the unknown and somehow stick the landing, finding beauty in what emerges.

Diana completed her contemporary art studies at The Byron School of Art where she received the Graduate Award in 2018. She has held 9 solo exhibitions across Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne as well as the Tweed Regional Gallery in Murwillumbah and has been awarded prizes in the c.a.s.e Postcard Show, Little Things Art Prize, The Rotary Art Spectacular, and The Lethbridge 10000. She has been a finalist in the Clayton Utz, Omnia and BAM Prizes. Diana has completed commissioned pieces for clients in the United Kingdom, Sweden, and Japan and collaborated with different Australian brands.