Alisha Miller is recalling the time the Abbey theatre, the heart of arts and culture in Nuneaton, set up a weekly gathering for all the creatives who lived in the Midlands market town. “I had this vision of me being like Francis Bacon talking to other Lucian Freuds,” she says. “But in the end, it was only me that turned up.”
Miller is 51 and has been making public art in Nuneaton for most of her life. It’s hard to walk around the place without bumping into her work: a bench outside the town hall made in tribute to George Eliot, who lived in these parts; digitally printed vinyl artwork on bus shelters; a big blue curved stripe across the exterior of the hospital (she had to climb up the scaffolding herself to help paint that one).
