• Michael Miller’s Naturalia I #005, an abstract image of dark branching forms and cracked textures in brown, ochre, pink, turquoise and blue, from The Very Fine Art Gallery.
  • Framed abstract painting on a textured wall with a modern chair and decorative items below.
  • Close-up detail of Naturalia I #005 showing multicolour abstract texture and surface
  • Close-up detail of Naturalia I #005 showing multicolour abstract texture and surface
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Naturalia I #005

Naturalia I #005

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Naturalia I #005 is a landscape of shifting forms, where a vast dark shape seems to flow across the image like a river, a coastline or the silhouette of some unknown creature. Around it, delicate networks of cracked and branching patterns spread through earthy browns, smoky pinks and warm ochres, dissolving into flashes of turquoise and deep blue. There is a sense of ancient rock, eroded earth and something organic slowly being revealed. Look a little longer and the image begins to change, offering new shapes and associations each time.

Part of the Naturalia I collection, these abstract works began with photographic negatives transformed by humidity, condensation and time. The resulting patterns are not painted or deliberately composed, but discovered through the unpredictable changes in the material. Each image invites you to find your own stories within these accidental forms.

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

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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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