Behavioral Ecologies (installation view), 2012, dimensions variable. Photograph courtesy of the artist and Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. Behavioral Ecologies (detail), 2012, dimensions variable. Photograph courtesy of the artist and Australian Centre for Contemporary Art.
 

BENNETT MILLER

Bennett Miller is a sculptor and installation artist from Perth, Western Australia. After spending five years obsessed with mini golf, recreating the Iraqi theatre of war across nine different installations (Golf War, 2003 - 2007), Miller has been working almost exclusively with dachshund dogs. He has staged his large scale performance work 'Dachshund UN' in numerous locations, both nationally (Next Wave Festival, Melbourne, 2010; Now Right Now, PICA, Perth, 2011; Local Positioning Systems, MCA, Sydney, 2012) and internationally (Fierce Festival, Birmingham, UK, 2012). Miller has also held solo exhibitions at IASKA (2006), Canberra Contemporary Art Space (2007) and Chalk Horse (2009), and in 2012 was included in the first installment of IASKA's Spaced: Art Out of Place at the Fremantle Art Centre and New 12, at ACCA, Melbourne.