Garry Fabian Miller - Exposure 18. Spring 2005

GARRY FABIAN MILLER

Garry Fabian Miller is one of the most powerful and respected artists working in photography today.

Having established his reputation with landscapes in the mid seventies, including internationally acclaimed depictions of sea and sky, in 1985 Fabian Miller stopped using the camera and has since then explored the elements of light, time and colour in camera-less images produced in his darkroom. Fabian Miller's pictures draw from the early darkroom experiments of pioneers such as Fox Talbot but also have a particular contemporary resonance. Deeply formal, yet also profoundly spiritual, on the one hand, Fabian Miller's imagery parallels the Modernism of international figures such as Donald Judd, Elsworth Kelly and James Turrell, and on the other it possesses an essential Englishness which can be traced back to Turner, as well as post-war abstract painters such as Scott, Heron and Nicholson.