Theo Miller

Job: Printmaking Technical Instructor

School/department: School of Arts, Design and Architecture

Address: De Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH

T: N/A

E: theo.miller@dmu.ac.uk

 

Personal profile

Theo Miller is a Printmaking Technical Instructor, where he has worked since 2016. Based within the Creative & Media School, he supports teaching, technical instruction and workshop provision across a range of specialist printmaking processes, including relief printing, intaglio printmaking, planographic processes, screenprinting and bookbinding. With experience independently teaching printmaking to all ages from children and youth, to educators and researchers.
Within his own practice he works primarily with letterpress within a visual arts context. Exhibiting internationally in both group and solo exhibitions.
In 2022 he founded Printmaking Services to help service, restore and repair presses for printmakers everywhere and has worked at Universities, Museums, Schools and Studios across the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Theo was awarded the Students' Choice Teaching Award in 2024 for his work with students and staff at De Montfort University.

Research group affiliations

Institute of Art and Design

Publications and outputs

Solo Exhibitions

2026

  • The Time It Takes, Wrexham University School Of Art, Wrexham

2021

  • Ley Lines, George Davis Centre Gallery, Leicester

2019

  • The New Custodian, Leicester Print Workshop, Leicester

Group Exhibitions

2026

  • The Harley Open 2026, Harley Foundation, Nottinghamshire
  • Contemporary Printmaking Prize 2026, Fen Ditton Gallery, Cambridgeshire

2025

  • Technician Exhibition, Atrium Gallery, De Montfort University
  • Two Queens Member Show, Leicester
  • Testing Ground, Martin Hall Gallery, Loughborough

2024

  • Inprint, Old Parcels Office Art Space, Scarborough
  • Artists at Work, Leicester Print Workshop, Leicester
  • Flock, Two Queens Members Show, Leicester
  • A is for Analogue, Frankenstein Press, Bristol
  • Old Type New Ways, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design

2023

  • Leicester Print Workshop Members Show
  • Postcard Exhibition, Arcadia Gallery, Coventry
  • New Impressions 2023, Hamilton Wood Type Museum Wisconsin

2022

  • Leicester Print Workshop Members Show
  • New Impressions 2022, Hamilton Wood Type Museum Wisconsin

2021

  • The Magic Of The Real, LCB Depot, Leicester

2020

  • Reverting to Type 2020: Protest Posters, Standpoint Gallery, London
  • New Impressions 2020, Hamilton Wood Type Museum, Wisconsin

2019

  • A Show of Hands, Norman Rea Gallery, York
  • ReForm, Leicester Print Workshop Leicester
  • A Show of Hands, Corsham Court, Bath Spa University

2018

  • In Another Place, Billboard (CVAN-EM) Oadby, Leicester
  • In Another Place, Leicester Print Workshop, Leicester

Research interests/expertise

  • Printmaking
  • Printing
  • Letterpress
  • Book Arts
  • Bookbinding

Areas of teaching

  • Printmaking
  • Bookbinding

Qualifications

BA Hons Fine Art

Honours and awards

  • Lucy Phillips Arts Fund (2025)
  • Students' Choice Teaching Award  - De Montfort University (2024)
  • Developing Your Creative Practice (Arts Council England) (2023)
  • Peoples Choice Award (Online) New Impressions 2023
  • Print Futures Award 2017

Consultancy work

Miller has consulted on Printmaking teaching environments and studios across the U.K and Ireland as Printmaking Services.
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