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.

Garry Fabian Miller        


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


Selected group exhibitions


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


Bibliothèque Nationale, 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


Recent Publications

                
Time Passage James Hyman Gallery, London, 2008

Year One, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, 2007

Illumine, Merrell, London, 2005