GARRY FABIAN MILLER

Since the mid-1980s, Miller has worked without a camera using the techniques of early nineteenth century photographic exploration to experiment with the nature and possibilities of light as both medium and subject. His earliest camera-less photographs look back to the pioneers of photography in the 1830s and 1840s, passing light through translucent objects, principally leaves, seedpods and flower heads, into an enlarger and using them as transparencies through which light passed on to light-sensitive paper.

Since 1992, Miller has explored a more abstract form of picture-making by passing light through coloured glass and liquid and cut paper forms. In sharp contrast to the norm of photographic exposures that last for a fragment of a second, Miller often uses long exposures lasting anywhere between one and twenty hours to create his unique and luminous images.

The solo exhibition Midwinter Blaze was presented at Ingleby in 2019, accompanied by a major new book, BLAZE, introduced by Edmund de Waal. 2023 marked a celebration of Garry Fabian Miller’s life and work. A survey exhibition, _Adore, _opened__at the Arnolfini (18 February – 28 May, 2023); a major exhibition celebrating a lifetime of his work. The show was accompanied by the launch of a new publication ADORE, which features work from the show and beyond, exploring the many inspirational artists, makers, writers and thinkers that have influenced his lengthy career. This exhibition coincided with the opening of Môrwelion; a solo exhibition at the National Museum of Cardiff (18 February – 10 September, 2023), which featured 40 photographs from Fabian Miller’s series _The Sea Horizon, _which he made between 1976-77. Furthermore, an exhibition and publication of his memoir, The Dark Room, was produced as part of his Honorary Fellowship with the Bodleian Library, Oxford University.

Miller is represented in numerous private and public collections worldwide, including the Victoria & Albert Museum, London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Courtesy Ingleby