About — MIKAELA MILLER

BIO

I’m an emerging artist working from a Goolugatup Heathcote studio. I was born and raised in Western Australia, and am interested in our experiences of place and ways we connect to the natural world. Including both urban and natural environments.

Having formally trained in design and community development, I now work primarily as a printmaker, public artist and arts professional. Despite several evolutions over the past decade, my practice has always been rooted in a love of drawing and intuitive use of line, shape and pattern.

My earlier work explores the evolution of landscapes, biodiversity and the significance of plant species to place or local narratives. Most of which can be found painted onto walls across metro and regional WA, with an generous catalogue of public art commissions - including projects for many of WA’s leading street art trails and festivals.

I’ve spent the last three years redeveloping my visual language into something (I think) more eloquent, emotively nuanced  and, if nothing else, more aligned to my true view of the world.

This recent work leans into more abstract representations of familiar details, uncanny curiosities and the fleeting moments found in the world around us. Applied in patterns and textures to surfaces for gallery contexts, and across urban environments. Details become new terrain. Textures like a relic - an echo of past landscapes, or glimpses at passing and future possibilities.

Mikaela Miller

ARTIST CV.

2019 GradDip Community Development - Murdoch University
Including MBS685 Project Management
2016 BA (Humanities) Graphic Design & Creative Advertising Curtin University
2013 Graduated Applecross Senior High School, ATAR + 5 years GATE Visual Arts Program
2025 -now Collection Coordinator at John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University
2023-2025 Collection Officer at John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University
2022-2025 Secretary, Swan River Print Studio
2020-2024 Applecross Senior High School Tutor for (GATE) Visual Art Program
2018 Art on the Move
Contracted Research Assistant for WA Regional Exhibition Touring Boost
Intern (425hrs) Community Engagement & Learning; Exhibitions & Touring
‘Emerging Artist’ representative for GalleriesWest Strategic Planning Day
2017-2019 South Perth Learning Centre, tutor for adult printmaking classes & workshops
2017 Chaos Theory Digital Studio, graphic design, web building, corporate/branding photography
Working with Children Check Exp. June 2027
White Card Issued: 06/2023
Work Safely At Heights RIIWHS204E Issued 01/2024
C-Class Manual Drivers License Exp. July 2027
Standard Mental Health First Aid Exp. June 2027
First Aid: HLTAID009; HLTAID010; HLTAID011 Updated: 11/2025
2023 Artist in Situ (Henderson Environmental Centre) with Carrissa Wu - for City of Stirling
2021 Mt Flora Residency, Watermans Bay WA, City of Stirling, with Carrissa Wu & Sophie G Nixon
2021 Project VI Exhibition & Residency at Lost Eden Gallery, Dwellingup WA
2023 Works from the Banksia Lands Series - 4x unique state prints acquired by the City of Melville
2019 Pressed Flowers - SHAC Colab2 Gallery, White Gum Valley WA
2026 (upcoming) My Leonardo - Earlywork
(upcoming) Studio Highlight Swan River Print Studio x Third Hand - Goolugatup Heathcote
RTRFM Fundraiser - Local and Aesthetic, Mount Lawley
2025 PrintRepeat - Earlywork
Convergence - Goolugatup Heathcote
2024 UNBOUND - Earlywork
2023 SRPS Summer Exhibition - Earlywork
2022 Print Matters - Linton & Kay, West Perth
Melville Art Awards - Yagan Mia Wireless Hill
Stories That Resonate - Maarakool Art Space, 140 Perth;
2022 cont. Flock - Pidgeonhole, Perth WA
Help the Homeless Fine Art Auction - Walyalup Civic Centre
OhHey WA Launch Party Exhibition - OhHey WA Office, Northbridge WA
No More Blank Walls - Blankwalls Pop-Up Mt Lawley
SRPS Summer Exhibition - Earlywork
2021 Solastalgia - Lost Eden Gallery, Dwellingup
Project VI - Lost Eden Gallery, Dwellingup
2020 Collie Mural Trail Artists’ Show - Collie Art Gallery
Incubate - SHAC Colab2 Gallery
2018 Heartwalk Artists’ Show, Black Crow Studios
2015 Stand Tall and See Exhibition - Little Wing Corner Gallery, Subiaco WA
2013 Young Originals Exhibition - ECU, Mt Lawley WA
2024 Youth Mural Project with City of South Perth & Propel You Arts
2023 Flower Dome (installation + workshops), Bunbury Fringe / Melville Dogs (mural w.
Maggie Johnson), City of Melville / Untitled (mural), BP Piara Waters - Blankwalls /
Artist in Situ (installation + workshops, Henderson Environmental Centre - City of Stirling
2022 Untitled (mural), Morely / Stories That Resonate (mural + community painting), Maarakool Art
Space - Blankwalls / Canteen Courtyard Murals (mural + community painting w. 3x student design
workshops), Alkimos College / The Pollinators (mural), Midland Gate Shopping Centre /
Untitled (mural), White Gum Valley / Beaufortia (mural), No More Blankwalls Festival Mt Lawley /
Woodland Dreamscape Walk (live murals w. Carrissa Wu), Out of The Woods Music Festival
2021 Mangles Kangaroo Paw (mural), Safety Bay / Yr 11 project (mural), Joondalup Baptist College -
Blankwalls / Love One Another (mural + integrated window vinyl), Padbury Catholic Primary /
Our Stories in Bloom (mural), Ballajura Library - City of Swan / Where We Connect (mural),
Vicinity Centres - Midland Gate / Habitats & Homes (workshops + digital installation - with
Rebecca Riggs-Bennett & Tyrown Waigana), 10 Nights in Port festival - City of Fremantle /
Untitled (mural + workshops w. Applecross SHS GATE Art students), Brentwood Town Team /
Melville Electrical Box Wraps (vinyl wraps + workshops series w. Applecross SHS GATE Art students),
various locations - City of Melville / Untitled (mural + workshops w. Applecross SHS GATE Art
students), Blue Gum Community Centre - City of Melville
2020 Freo Recycling Centre Hub (mural), City of Fremantle / River Lines (mural), Collie Mural Trail -
Shire of Collie & WA Government / Presentation Women (mural), Iona Presentation College / We
Love Inglewood, (mural + community painting), Inglewood on Beaufort - City of Stirling /
Floral Hopscotch (mural), City of Stirling - Karrinyup / Portrait of Pally II (mural +
community painting) Cleopatra/Adrian St Sump Fence - City of Melville / YAC Creative
Connections (virtual workshops), Shire of Augusta Margaret River / Willagee Art Group
(virtual workshops), Willagee Community Centre - City of Melville / Untitled (window vinyl +
mural + workshops w. Applecross SHS GATE Art students), Westfield Booragoon
2019 There’s Gold to be Found Within (Street Library), Main St Co-Op - Osborne Park / A Portrait of
Pally (mural + community painting), Baal/Marmion St Sump Fence - City of Melville / Splendid
Fairy Wren w. Prickly Moses (mural), Bicton / Untitled (mural), Mrs S Cafe Maylands /
Entrance & Bathroom (murals), Booragoon Occasional Early Education Centre / Untitled (stage
backdrop on vinyl), Bicton Primary School, SHACtivate! Community Canvas (vinyl banner+ workshop),
SHAC -White Gum Valley / Dalyellup 2039 (mural + workshops), Shire of Capel Youth Week -
Dalyellup / Under the Garden - Skate Link (murals), Shire of Capel / Spring City (collaborative i
nstallation), Kidchella Festival- City of Melville
2018 Untitled (mural + community painting), Art On The Move / Dragonfly (mural), Palmyra / Untitled
(mural + workshops), Merredin College / Banners in the Terrace (vinyl banner +workshops), South Perth
Learning Centre / Untitled (mural), Donnybrook Hardware & Gardens / Golden (mural), Kalgoorlie
HeARTwalk festival / Untitled (murals), Booragoon Occasional Early Education Centre
2017: Gwenda the Quenda + Untitled (murals), Murdoch University Student Guild Tavern / Untitled (mural),
Mrs S Cafe Highgate / Mabel from Capel (mural), Captivate Capel Festival - Shire of Capel