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Purple. Blue. Orange.
Summer 2008
two unique light, oil, dye destruction prints
55.9 x 65.5 cm framed (each)
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 many important collections and has had exhibitions all over the globe. He is one of three artists (alongside Susan Derges and Adam Fuss) that have been chosen for a major survey on cameraless photography, Shadow Catchers at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2010.
Garry Fabian Miller's exhibition The Colours runs at Ingleby Gallery from 27 November 2009 to 30 January 2010.
Garry Fabian Miller was in conversation with Martin Barnes (Senior Curator of Photographs at the Victoria and Albert Museum) on Saturday 28th November, 2009. To request an edited transcript of the talk, please email alice@inglebygallery.com
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