Jack Milroy is a contemporary British artist whose intricate cut-paper constructions and sculptural book-works have defined a practice spanning more than six decades. Through the process of cutting, layering and reconstruction, he creates vast imagined worlds that range from cataclysmic visions to paradisal landscapes.
“Jack Milroy’s art is made of visual puns and disturbances. He releases things with a scalpel and contains them again neatly in glass and perspex. This is a world put together by bricolage and happenstance – ephemeral as cardboard and paper – but full of thought and visual curiosity.”
Dame Antonia Byatt, 2002
Over the last sixty years, Jack Milroy has shown in the UK and internationally with over 30 solo shows with Art First and many group exhibitions including The British Art Show organised by the Arts Council. His upcoming show is Bibliophilia at Shapero Modern, New Bond Street, London, which runs from 15th April to 17th May 2026.
Collections
The artist’s work is held in many public collections, including the V&A, UK Government Art Collection, New British Library, and the Imperial War Museum. His work can be also found in numerous private and corporate collections, including British Airways, De Beers, Chase Manhattan Bank, the Kit Kemp Collection and the Caldic Collection. He has also completed a large body of commissioned work.
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