Harland Miller (Live at Nevill Holt Festival)
Talk Art
Russell Tovey and Robert Diament c/o Independent Talent
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Talk Art live! As part of the Nevill Holt Festival 2025, Talk Art hosted a live podcast recording with special guest Harland Miller. From the Nevill Holt Theatre, the world-renowned artist Miller joined Russell Tovey and Robert Diament in conversation to discuss his paintings and lifetime of art making.
The Nevill Holt Festival is an annual celebration of arts and culture held in the Leicestershire countryside. Recorded on 12th June 2025, in front of a sold out audience.
Artist and writer Harland Miller’s (born 1964) polychromatic and graphically vernacular paintings have garnered a devoted following. Infused with irreverent northern English humour and refined by his lifelong love of language, Miller’s work synthesises references from both high and low culture, spanning literature, music, self-help manuals and medieval iconography.
Attesting to his deep-rooted engagement with the narrative, aural and typographical possibilities of language, Miller expressed, ‘People read before they can stop themselves, it’s automatic. Words offer a way into what you’re looking at, but no matter how integrated the text is, no matter how much you might think it’s synthesised into the painting, there is this imbalance in terms of how much the words are doing as words.’
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| 0:00.0 | You never know where the journey will take you. |
| 0:03.0 | One Tinder match. |
| 0:05.0 | And not only have I met someone new, |
| 0:07.0 | but we've discovered a sick Italian restaurant together. |
| 0:11.0 | And it turns out, football is now our thing. |
| 0:15.0 | Didn't see that one coming? |
| 0:17.0 | Discover unexpected possibilities with Tinder. |
| 0:21.9 | Wherever it takes you, it starts with a swipe. |
| 0:25.2 | Tinder. Download the app today. |
| 0:31.2 | Good afternoon, good morning, good evening. |
| 0:39.5 | Whatever you are in the world. |
| 0:40.5 | I am Russell Tovey. |
| 0:41.5 | And I'm Robert Diamon. |
| 0:42.7 | And this is Talk Art. |
| 0:43.7 | Welcome to Talk Art. |
| 0:45.8 | That's a lovely response. |
| 0:49.1 | Thank you. |
| 0:49.9 | Where are we today, Robert? |
| 0:50.8 | This is a Talk Art live. |
| 0:52.2 | And we are in the Neville Holt Festival. |
| 0:55.1 | Woo-hoo! And apparently we're the act before the opera. So I'm feeling very regal and very |
| 1:02.1 | fancy. We are very grateful to be here. This is an incredible estate. The collector, David Ross, |
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