Garry Fabian Miller

Much of Fabian Miller’s early work was landscape based. He gained international acclaim in the 1970’s for his photographs of sky, land and sea, particularly for the series titled Sea Horizons of England that were first shown at the Arnolfini Gallery in 1979. Since 1985 he has made camera-less images, essentially abstract photography without camera or film, exploring the possibilities of image making with light itself. His methods look back to the early pioneers of photography in the 1830s and 1840s, passing light through objects – especially plants – or through filters of oil or coloured water onto photo-sensitive paper. In his return to basics, the fundamentals of form and colour, his work looks back to these early pioneers, but it also looks forward. Fabian Miller has a deserved reputation as one of the most progressive artists working with photography today.

Fabian Miller is represented in numerous private and public collections worldwide. His most recent solo exhibition at Ingleby Gallery was The Colours in 2009, and in October 2010 he was one of five artists in Shadow Catchers, a major survey of camera-less photography at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. A Little Bit of Magic Realised , at Ingleby Gallery (26 November 2010 – 29 January 2011) ran parallel to Shadow Catchers, and focused on the wider career of Susan Derges and Garry Fabian Miller in the context of early historical photographic experiments.

Garry Fabian Miller’s exhibition Home Dartmoor  opens at the newly reopened Royal Albert Museum and Art Gallery on 31st March, and runs to 24 June 2012.