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Painter interested in architecture who created two-dimensional and three-dimensional images in a variety of materials, employing symbols such as crosses and cenotaphs, often in sustained series. He was born in London, but eventually settled in New York, in 1980. Milow studied at Camberwell School of Art, 1962–7, and Royal College of Art, 1967–8. He did experimental work at Royal Court Theatre in the latter year, and after teaching at Ealing School of Art, 1968–70, was Gregory Fellow as artist-in-residence at University of Leeds, in the early 1970s having two years in New York under a Harkness Fellowship. Returned to teach at Chelsea School of Art for a time. Milow won a Calouste Gulbenkian Visual Arts Award, 1976; First (equal) prize at Tolly Cobbold/Eastern Arts, 1979; and Arts Council Major Award in the same year.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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