A special new edition produced to mark the 75th anniversary of the ICA. All sales proceeds will go towards supporting our future events, exhibitions and learning programme.

XXX, is taken from a painting of the same title, first shown in the artist’s 2019 solo show at White Cube, Hong Kong. The print takes the form of the cover of a novel, with the top section a complex graphic layering of letters and colours, counterbalanced by a clean band of neutral colour bearing the title and author/artist’s name, where drips of paint at the bottom of the canvas expose its layering of colours. The work is part of an ongoing series, where Miller employs mono or bi-syllabic words to create hard-edged letter paintings with bold, saturated colours that reference, amongst others, Robert Rauschenberg and Ed Ruscha’s use of vernacular signage and motifs. Miller depicts the letters in a range of typefaces, through a process of isolating, overlaying and reconnecting, to create a sense of depth in the image that deconstructs and abstracts the meaning of language itself. Inspired by illuminated manuscripts, these works bring a Pop sensibility to the lettering of medieval monks, connecting the sacred with the everyday.

The letter X is significant to the artist in its form and design but also given its connotations and connection to punk culture and X-rated cinema. The letters XXX are built up from layers of various colours, their image suggesting objects in motion, where several forms are compressed at once, kaleidoscopic and transparent – like a series of sequential, transparent slides.

This ICA Artists' Edition is in memory of Sir Herbert Reed (1893 - 1968), the Great Yorkshire poet, philosopher and co-founder of the ICA. Buried in Hovingham, Yorkshire, his epitaph reads Artist - Knight - Anarchist.