Roger Millar studied silversmithing and jewellery design at the Glasgow School of Art, and the Royal College of Art, London.
Following a period of bench experience and freelance design work in the fine jewellery trade in London, he entered higher education teaching, first in Wales, then Dundee and the United States, finally returning to the Glasgow School of Art as Head of the Department of Silversmithing and Jewellery in 1984. In the following 21 years under his leadership, S&J at GSA became established as one of the most enduring and important degree courses in the United Kingdom, and its recent graduates have contributed greatly to the strength in depth of the craft in Scotland and beyond.
Millar was elected to the Freedom of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths and gained the Freedom of the City of London in 1985. In recognition of his significant contribution to education in design and craft, he was awarded, in 1999, an Honorary Professorship of the University of Glasgow at the Glasgow School of Art.
He took early retirement from GSA in 2005 to concentrate full-time on his own studio work. He now continues to do some part-time and summer-school teaching and undertakes consultancy work in the UK and abroad. |
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| Selected exhibitions since 1995 |
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| 2012 |
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‘Fit for Purpose’ at ‘Made in Britain’ – Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
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‘Made in Scotland’ – The Fleming Collection, London |
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Design Collection 2012 – Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow |
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| 2011 |
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‘SidexSide-Edge>Edge’ - CBS - The Capstone Gallery, Liverpool, England. |
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‘Silver Month’, Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh |
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‘Glasgow Silver’, Lyon and Turnbull, Edinburgh |
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’40 Years in the Tower’ – Glasgow School of Art |
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| 2010 |
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‘Silver of the Stars’ – The Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, Alberta; Sheraton Hotel, Edinburgh; SECC, Glasgow; Dick Institute, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. |
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‘SidexSide-Edge>Edge’ – CBS – Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro |
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‘Come Rain, Come Shine’ - 2010 – Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow |
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| 2009 |
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‘Silver of the Stars’ – The Gregg Museum of Art and Design, North Carolina; The San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design; The Royal British Columbia Museum, Vancouver |
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‘SidexSide-Edge>Edge’ - CBS - Håme Castle, Håmelinna, Finland |
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| 2008 |
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‘Silver – Made in Scotland’ – National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh |
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British Silver Week 2008 |
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CBS ‘Connect Collection’ - (Touring) |
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Design Collection 2008 – Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow |
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| 2007 |
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‘Silver of the Stars’ – V&A Museum, London; The Forbes Gallerries, New York; The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg; The World Art Museum, Beijing; The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto |
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Thomas Goode Exhibition, London, by The Scottish Gallery. |
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ABDS ‘Connect Collection’, Birmingham. |
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Design Collection 2007 – Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow |
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| 2006 |
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‘!00% Proof 2’ – Oriel Myddin Gallery, Carmarthen, Wales |
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Autumn Show - Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow |
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| 2005 |
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‘100% Proof 2’ – Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge,
Mass., Velvet Da Vinci, San Francisco, and FLOW gallery, London |
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| 2004 |
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‘Cityscape’, Roger Billcliffe Gallery
‘Micromegas’
– Oratorio di San Rocca, Musei Civici agli Eremitani,
Padua |
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| 2002 |
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'Micromegas' - American Craft Museum, NY and Fine Art Museum, Geneva, and Gallery YU, Hiko Mizuno College of Jewellery,Tokyo; Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney, Australia; Curtin University, Perth, Australia |
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10th Anniversary exhibition - Roger Bilcliffe Gallery |
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'The Teapot Redefined' - SOFA Chicago / Mobilia Gallery,
Cambridge, Mass.
‘Teapots’ – Scottish
Gallery
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| 2001 |
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Solo Exhibition - Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota
USA |
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'Micromegas' - BKV Gallery, Munich |
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'100% Proof' - Flow Gallery - London, Cambridge (Massachusetts),
New York, San Francisco |
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SOFA, Chicago - Scottish Gallery |
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| 2000 |
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'The Millennium Silver Collection' - Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
and London |
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Solo Exhibition - Suraci Gallery, Marywood University, Pennsylvania |
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| 1999 |
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‘Silver by Design’ – Billcliffe Gallery |
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| 1998 |
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Propositions 2 – Thinking through Drawing’ –
GSA |
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Solo show “New Works’ – Scottish Gallery |
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| 1997 |
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‘Silver from Scotland’ – Aberdeen Art Gallery,
Scottish Gallery, Crafts Council Gallery, London (with catalogue
essay) |
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Solo show ‘Luz Prateada’ – Billcliffe gallery |
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‘Living Silver’ - Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh;
Crafts Council Gallery, London; New York, San Francisco, Frankfurt,
Munich, Hamburg |
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| Private commissions include works
for presentation to: |
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| Her Majesty The Queen |
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| The Duke of Edinburgh |
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| The Secretary of State for Scotland |
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| Bute House Silver Collection |
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| Commissions for: |
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| The Scottish Executive |
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| Tayside Regional Council |
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| Glasgow City Council |
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| The National Trust |
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| The Archbishop of St Davids |
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| The Archbishop of Monmouth |
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| The Archbishop of Brechin |
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| The Royal College of Physicians and
Surgeons, Glasgow |
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| The Scottish Radiological Society |
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| The Incorporation of Nine Trades
of Dundee |
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| The Trades House of Glasgow |
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| Incorporation of Goldsmiths of Edinburgh |
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| An Comunn Gaidhealach |
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| Glasgow Caledonian University |
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| Strathclyde University |
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| Glasgow School of Art |
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| The National Union of Students |
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| Scottish Engineering |
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| Unilever PLC |
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| Stockists |
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| The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow |
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| Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, Mass |
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| Credits |
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| Engraving on 2 badges of office by
William Kirk. |
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| All other engraving on silver work
by John Cairns. |
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| Medal engraving by Kirkwoods, Edinburgh. |
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| Stainless steel and brass components
for the Scottish Engineering Award 2001 trophy made by apprentice
Adam Loudon, courtesy of Walker Precision Engineering Ltd, Glasgow. |
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| Photographs of RCSG rose bowl - ©Graham
Lees |
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| Photograph of large round table centrepiece
- ©Antonia Reeve |
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| Nicola Benedetti photo ©Alastair Devine |
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| All other images ©Roger
Millar |
