Eve McGovern Miller

Art & Philosophy BA (Hons)

Not of the landscape, but the landscape itself.

About

Eve McGovern Miller standing in a heathery landscape.

Utilising sculpture, drawing and film, Eve McGovern Miller is predominantly interested in the paradoxical relationships between human, non-human, and land. Coolly minimalistic, their work uses aesthetics as a tool for subversion, highlighting the strained relationships in which humans seek to control ecology by placing themselves beyond and above our biosphere. Engaging with vital questions about what it is to inhabit a damaged planet, and how to understand, and process the trauma that comes with holding an ecological awareness within a capitalist society. 

Working with materials which have a landscape of their own, McGovern Miller’s research-based practice considers how time relates to and further strains the relationship of human interference and response to the land and non-human species by offering alternative approaches to making kin, or familial connections with land and non-human, therefore re-becoming part of the multi-species entanglement within a functioning ecology. 

By choosing how they move with, and alongside land and water, McGovern Miller is forming a slow relationship with the Tay River basin. Seeking an alternative method for living within the Anthropocene, the work displays the kinship formed between an individual and the environment they inhabit, encompassing all animal bodies’ present and past relationships with their landscape itself.

Floor based sculptures in the foreground with artwork on the wall behind.
Woollen sculpture in upland moors.

This newfound fluidity; recording's 1 through 21

Blue artwork with gold details.

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