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.
1957
Born Bristol
Lives and works at Homeland, Dartmoor
Selected solo exhibitions:
2008-9
Time Passage, James Hyman Gallery, London
2008
Authentic Tidings of Invisible Things, An Tobar, Isle of Mull
The Years, Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Year One, Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn
2007-8
Year One, New Art Centre, Salisbury
2007
Garry Fabian Miller and Edmund de Waal, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
2006
Garry Fabian Miller, Goss Gallery, Dallas, USA
2005
Becoming Magma, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Real in the World, Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, Warwick
Exposed, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
Illuminator, Hamiltons Gallery, London
2004
Tracing Light, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, USA
Northern Suns Golden Storms, Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Blue,Gold, Hamiltons Gallery, London
2003
Golden Storms and Other Work, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
Burning: Thoughts of a Night Sea, Galleria Valentina Moncada, Rome, Italy
2002
Flair - Ray of Light: Garry Fabian Miller 1976-2002, Tokyo Design Centre, Tokyo, Japan; Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Golden Burning Night Cities, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
Garry Fabian Miller, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield
2001
Petworth Windows, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London; Camerawork, Berlin, Germany
2000
Thoughts of a Night Sea, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
Solar Eclipse, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, USA
Six Chapel Row Contemporary Art, Bath
1999
Toward a Solar Eclipse, Tate St Ives, St Ives
Tracing Light, Petworth House, West Sussex
1998
In the Shadow of the Sun, Hamiltons Gallery, London
Sections of England: The Sea Horizon, Galleria Valentina Moncada, Rome, Italy
1997
Garry Fabian Miller: Photographic Works 1976-95, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex
Sections of England: The Sea Horizon, Arnolfini, Bristol
Sections of England: The Sea Horizon, Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London
1996
Elective Affinities, Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London
Of Sons and Angels, Museet fur Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark
1995
Observances, The Pier Gallery, Stromness, Orkney
Dawn, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan
1994
Natural Mechanics, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, USA
1993
Home Land, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
Illumine, The Photographers' Gallery, London
1991-3
The Gatherer: Garry Fabian Miller, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton; Orion Gallery, Newlyn; Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, The Cambridge Darkroom, Cambridge; Stills Gallery, Edinburgh
1988
A Gathering in for the Healing, Natural History Museum, London
1987
The Tree: A Return to Grace, Usher Gallery, Lincoln; Gainsborough's House, Suffolk
1986
Man from Hunter to Gatherer: Garry G. Miller, Axiom Gallery, Cheltenham; Impressions Gallery of Photography, York; Watershed Media Centre, Bristol
1985
Man from Hunter to Gatherer: Garry G. Miller, Untitled Gallery, Sheffield
1984
Green Grain, Festival Gallery, Bath
1983
Ritual of Gathered Rain, Usher Gallery, Lincoln
1979
Arnolfini, Bristol
group exhibitions:
2010
Shadow Catchers, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Sitting and Looking, Dovecot, Edinburgh, UK
2009
Water, James Hyman Fine Art
2006-7
Alchemy, Harewood House, Leeds (touring)
2005
Rencontres d'Arles, International Festival of Photography, Arles, France
2004
Lightfall, Philips Gallery, Taunton
From Here to Eternity: Vija Celmins, Richard Long, Garry Fabian Miller, James Turrell, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
Seeing Salvation Now, North Light Gallery, Huddersfield
2003
Optic Nerve, Abstract Colour Photography, Wolsey Art Gallery, Ipswich; Photofusion, London
2002
Four Photographers, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
2001
At Sea, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
Planet Earth, City Art Gallery, Leicester
2000
Unique Photographs, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA
Chorus of Light: Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA
Breathless: Photography and Time, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
1999
Revelation, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
A Focus for Prayer, Six Chapel Row Contemporary Art, Bath
1998
Several Exceptionally Good Recently Acquired Pictures XII, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1997
Several Exceptionally Good Recently Acquired Pictures XI, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1996-7
The Inner Eye: Art Beyond the Visible, Hayward Gallery, London; City Art Galleries, Manchester; Brighton Museum and Gallery, Brighton; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea; Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
Under the Sun: Photographs by Christopher Bucklow, Susan Derges, Garry Fabian Miller, Adam Fuss, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1996
Elective Affinities: Susan Derges, Garry Fabian Miller, Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London
1995
Heaven's Embroidered Cloths, National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford
20 Modern British Photographers, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Context and Continuity, Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn
Possibilities of Extension: Christopher Bucklow, Jo Holland, Susan Derges, Garry Fabian Miller, Phillipe Dufour, Daro Montag, Adam Fuss, Ruth Mylius, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
Fotofeis 95: The Scottish International Festival of Photography, Edinburgh
1994
Illumine, The Verula Monastery, Tarrazona, Spain
Natural Mechanics, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, USA
Cameraless Photography: Susan Derges and Garry Fabian Miller, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
1993-4
Between Sun and Earth: Susan Derges, Garry Fabian Miller, The Photographers' Gallery, London; Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth
1993
An Undiscovered Country, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
New Inhabitants: Seven Artists on Dartmoor, Royal Albert Museum and Art Gallery, Exeter
1992-4
Special Collections: The Photographic Order from Pop to Now, International Centre of Photography, New York, USA (touring)
1990
The Journey, Lincoln Cathedral, Lincoln
Collecting for the Future: A Decade of Contemporary Acquisitions, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
1989
New Icons: Christian Iconography in Contemporary Art, Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, Warwick
Photo Sculpture: From Object to Image, Watershed Media Centre, Bristol
The Sculpture Project, Ashton Park, Bristol
Out of the Wood, Crafts Council of Great Britain, London (touring)
The Tree of Life: New Images of an Ancient World, South Bank Centre, London
British Photography: Towards a Bigger Picture, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
Anima Mundi: Still Life in Britain, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Canada
1988-9
Artists in National Parks: An Exhibition of New Art Celebrating the National Parks of England and Wales, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
1987-88
British Photography: Towards a Bigger Picture, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
1987
New Acquisitions, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Image and Exploration, The Photographers' Gallery, London
1986-7
Land Matters, Blackfriars Arts Centre, Boston, Lincolnshire; Usher Gallery, Lincoln; Sudley Art Gallery, Liverpool; Winchester Gallery, Winchester, The Brewery, Kendall; Posterngate Gallery, Hull; Sunderland Art Gallery, Sunderland
Knowing your Place: Artists' Parish Maps, Common Ground, London; The Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
1986
Still Life, Gardner Arts Centre, Brighton; Ffotogallery, Cardiff; Oldham Art Gallery, Manchester
The Elements, Milton Keynes Exhibition Gallery, Milton Keynes; Royal Festival Hall, London; The Minories, Colchester
1985
Image and Exploration, The Photographers' Gallery, London; British Council Exhibitions, Czechoslovakia and Hungary
Still Life: Aspects of Contemporary Life in Photography, Untitled Gallery, Sheffield; Axiom Gallery, Cheltenham
1984
British Abstract Photography, Rochdale Art Gallery, Manchester
1981-2
Art and the Sea
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; touring to Bristol, Llandudno, Glasgow, Southampton
1977-8
Midland Open, Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham; Serpentine Gallery, London
Selected Collections:
BibliothNationale, Paris, France
British Land Company, London
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, USA
Conoco plc
Deutsche Morgan Grenfell
Devon County Art Collection
Sir Elton John
Fogg Art Museum, Boston, USA
Gillman Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Goldman Sachs
Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas, USA
Government Art Collection
Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield
Hewlett Packard Laboratories, UK
Hiscox plc, London
Kasama Nichido Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Merrill Lynch, London
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark
National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford
National Trust Foundation for Art, London
National Westminster Bank Collection, London
Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney
Prendimi, Japan
Queen Alice Aqua
Teignbridge District Council
Texaco plc
Tokyo Roki Co. , Ltd
University of Warwick
Usher Gallery, Lincoln
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Publications:
Time Passage James Hyman Gallery, London, 2008
Year One, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, 2007
Illumine, Merrell, London, 2005