• Michael Miller’s Naturalia I #002, an abstract textured image of dark diagonal streaks with pale mineral white, dusty pink, lavender and blue-green areas, from The Very Fine Art Gallery.
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Naturalia I #002

Naturalia I #002

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Lose yourself in the shapes, colours and patterns of this image. Long, diagonal streaks cut across a dark, textured surface, interrupted by flashes of mineral white, dusty pink, muted lavender and blue-green. The marks suggest rain running down glass, light caught on wet ground or waves breaking along a shadowed shoreline. A pale turquoise band emerges through the darkness, creating a sense of movement and depth. Neither wholly landscape nor pure abstraction, the image invites you to find your own story within its shifting forms.

These abstract images began with old photographic negatives transformed by mould, humidity and the passage of time. What was once damage became an unexpected visual language of colour, texture and pattern.

These images are printed on museum-quality thick matte paper, with an intentional rough black frame inside a white border.

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• Paper thickness: 0.26 mm
• Paper weight: 189 g/m²
• Opacity: 94%
• ISO brightness: 104%
• Paper is sourced from Japan

Produced to order and shipped from the nearest global facility. Fully tracked delivery.

The Story Behind This Collection
Naturalia is Michael Miller's meditation on time, chemistry, and accidental beauty. The works in this series began not with a camera, but in storage - film negatives left undisturbed for over five years, slowly transformed by humidity, damp, and the quiet passage of time. The elements worked on the negatives in ways no darkroom technique could replicate, producing the extraordinary colours, textures, and forms you see here. Each piece is a collaboration between the artist and entropy itself: unique, unrepeatable, and entirely natural in origin.
About the Artist
Michael Miller's practice centres on the abstraction of reality - using a hybrid of photographic techniques across multiple disciplines to create an emotional connection with the viewer. His work inhabits a realm of deliberate ambiguity, where he believes an intangible beauty resides: visually poetic, artful rather than merely documentary.

Michael has exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra, the Head On Portrait Prize, the Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize at the NSW State Library, and at the BBA Gallery Berlin. He was voted Australia's Top Emerging Art Photographer by Capture Magazine in 2018, and has been recognised with awards from the IPA, PX3, and D&AD, among others.

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