Sarah Miller is Professor of Performance and Associate Dean: Research, Creative and
Professional Practice in the Faculty of Creative Arts (FCA). She has worked in many
capacities in the arts - performer, writer, producer/curator, and artistic and executive
director working across the visual, performing, hybrid and new media arts - since
starting out as a performance artist in 1983. She is best known for successive
directorships of the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts Ltd - PICA (1994 - 2006) and
Performance Space, Sydney (1989 - 1993), which saw her producing and presenting
exhibitions, seasons, festivals and events locally, nationally and internationally,
whilst working to ensure that artists, groups and companies were valued and encouraged in
the making of their work. She was the recipient of the prestigious 2003 Sidney Myer
Performing Arts Facilitator's Award.
Sarah has provided expert advice for a range of government and statutory bodies including
the Australian Research Council for Excellence in Research Australia (ERA), and the
Australia Council for the Arts: the Australian Government's arts funding and
advisory body, as well as state funding agencies in NSW and Western Australia, and
several university art school advisory committees. She is a former member of the
Australia Council's Theatre Board (2005 - 2007), Drama Committee (1991 - 93), Hybrid
Arts Committee (1994) and was an external peer on the New Media Arts Board in 1996, in
which roles she undertook the evaluation and assessment of funding applications by
individuals, companies and organisations nationally.
Curated Events/Exhibitions
Journal Articles
Reports
Presentations
Playing It Safe (with Deborah Kelly, Arlene Texta Queen, and Adam Geczy), Artists' Week - Adelaide Festival of the Arts (2008)
Exhibition Catalogue Essays
Book Chapters
