Miller's father Peter Miller was a painter in the
social realist tradition. His sister
Lisa Miller is an Australian singer-songwriter. He studied painting at the
Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne from 1977 to 1979, and then travelled to London, Europe and
Malaysia. He held his first solo exhibition in 1986 and is represented in the
National Gallery of Australia, state and private galleries. In 1998, he won the
Archibald Prize, which brought him greater prominence and led to many further commissions. He has travelled widely, including to the US in 1998, 2000, 2003 and 2005. In 2003 and 2005, Miller was commissioned to produce a series of portraits of the scientists and technicians involved in the mapping of the
human genome. His other commissioned portraits include
Australian rules football coach
Ron Barassi, mountaineer
Sir Edmund Hillary and scientist
James D. Watson. By 2005, he had entered the Archibald prize 17 times and had been a finalist 13 times. He was interviewed in the 2005
Peter Berner documentary
Loaded Brush. As of 2022, Miller has been a finalist in the Archibald prize 18 times, including with his portrait of
Deborah Conway. He currently lives in Melbourne with his wife and one son. ==Awards==