Lewis Miller (b. 1959), artist, won the Archibald Prize in 1998 with one of his many portraits of fellow artist Allan Mitelman, and has been a finalist seventeen times. After training at the Victorian College of the Arts in the 1970s, he won the Hugh Ramsay Portrait Prize in 1981. An exhibition of his portraits was held at Deakin University in 2003. That year, Miller was appointed by the Australian War Memorial as Australia's official artist to the conflict in Iraq, recording mine clearing undertaken by the Royal Australian Navy in the Persian Gulf and by members of the SAS at Al Qusayr and on the Al Ifziiyah peninsula. He has several times been artist-in-residence at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York, producing a number of portraits of its scientists including one of its former Director, James Watson. Miller has been included in many solo and group exhibitions and is represented in the National Gallery of Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria and the Art Gallery of NSW, as well as university and other public and corporate collections in Australia, New Zealand and the USA. The National Portrait Gallery holds Miller’s portraits of The Hon. Susan Crennan AC KC, Sir Rupert Hamer AC KCMG, Ronald Dale Barassi AM and Jerry Ellis.
