About Wren Miller

Wren is a visual artist and an environmental activist at heart. She was born into a vibrant creative family in Shropshire and brought up on the beautiful and wild Longmynd, by her artist- educator parents.

After studying Design BA Hons at Middlesex University, she joined Greenham Common Peace Camp and was involved in non-violent direct action. In 1989 she cycled across Europe along the major rivers to highlight river pollution for Greenpeace.

Wren has completed many residencies with schools, museums and art galleries in the UK. She has led large scale community development projects, as lead artist.

Wren has over twenty years experience working in many ways with people: creating outdoor performances, celebrations, arts trails, films, sculptures, gardens and eco spaces. During this time she has become an instigator, an ideas person and a developer of initiatives and ways of engaging people in the arts. Through her participationary expertise, she has been appointed as consultant designer to Birmingham Children’s Hospital.

Wren has been selected for international exhibitions and collaborated with many artists and is being increasingly asked to work with leading edge international performance companies such as Blue Eyed Soul and Emergency Exit Arts.

The Remembrance Labyrinth, a “subtly awesome peice”, made from over 6000 donated, loved books, collected for charities, was made in collaboration with Ray Jacobs in July 2009 for Shift-Time Festival of Ideas.

Wren works across the arts, bringing her visual aesthetics, movement, photography and art together to create extraordinary moments and spaces. Her practice is deeply reflective and ecological, combining inner and outer landscapes.

Wren predominantly works on a large scale, reflecting her desire to share both the experience of creativity and her artworks with others. She will invite interaction with a piece through reflection, a suprise or sense encounter and often through community involvement in the conception and making of public artworks.

Wren is fascinated by space, light and colour and the benefitial effects this has upon humans. The success of the Rainbow Tunnel commission at Birmingham Children’s Hospital, has meant that she has been asked to return repeatedly to work there.
Her works are often sited in the landscape: suggested routes between them are created to encourage outdoor journeys, and moments of awareness and wonder.

The materials she uses are carefully chosen to do as little damage to the earth as possible, often a combination of waste materials, or the earth itself.

She is a founding member of the Cloud Gallery Artists Collective, who’s vision is to create an eco art gallery and education centre. www.cloudgallery.org