Meet Miles Howard-Wilks
We had the pleasure of speaking with Miles Howard-Wilks about his ceramic commission for the exhibition A velvet ant, a flower and a bird .
Miles joined Arts Project Australia in the early 2000s, developing a distinctive visual language across drawing, painting and, more recently, ceramics. In this new series of works, his subjects come from the world around him; magpies and crocodiles, koalas and water dragons, fish moving through streams and leaves.
In this video, Miles describes how carefully he attends to each detail in his work: a crocodile's scales are rendered delicately along its back; a magpie settles in a nest with eggs; brightly coloured baby ants gather beside bigger ones.
Taken together, these ceramic pieces become a personal field guide to the natural world, made with quiet joy and a sharp eye for the creatures that most people walk straight past. Playful yet precise, Miles’s work in this new medium expands his exploration of three-dimensional form, deepening a long-standing fascination with animals and the natural world.
