Petworth Window, 10 September 1999

Garry Fabian Miller (1957 - )

Light, water dye destruction print

1999

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  • About the work
    This ethereal image of light streaming through a window forms part of a series made at Petworth House in West Sussex, where Fabian Miller was a visiting artist. He was inspired by the works of J. M. W. Turner, who had stayed at Petworth during the 1820s and ‘30s and had produced paintings of the interiors flooded with light. In this striking image, the bright light appears to surge through the elongated window panes. To produce this series, Fabian Miller did not use a conventional camera, but allowed light from the windows to pass through water in a jar. The water acted as a lens, focusing the light onto photosensitive paper.
  • About the artist
    Garry Fabian Miller HonFRPS (b. 1957) is a British photographic artist. Since 1976, he has specialised in camera-less photography. The Victoria & Albert Museum have the largest holdings of his work spanning 30 years. Between 2014 – 2018 Miller worked with Dovecot Tapestry Studios, Edinburgh on a series of rugs and the tapestry, 'Voyage into the deepest darkest blue'. His interest and commitment to craft informed the exhibition 'Making, Thinking, Living' that he curated for the UK Crafts Study Centre in 2016. He was made an honorary fellow of the Royal Photographic Society in 2017. In 2018, the Victoria and Albert Museum premiered his first film Last evenings, a reimagining of the Magic Lantern slide performances of the early 1800s, in collaboration with the composer and musician Oliver Coates, and the poet Alice Oswald. He has lived with his family on Dartmoor in the South West of England since 1989.
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    Places
    England, Sussex
    Subjects
    topography, abstract, window, domestic interior
    Materials & Techniques
    light, photograph (as object name), dye-destruction print
  • Details
    Artist
    Garry Fabian Miller (1957 - )
    Title
    Petworth Window, 10 September 1999
    Date
    1999
    Medium
    Light, water dye destruction print
    Dimensions
    height: 58.80 cm, width: 48.20 cm
    Acquisition
    Purchased from Purdy Hicks Gallery, June 2001
    Provenance
    Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
    GAC number
    17614