• Michael Miller’s Naturalia I #009, a dark abstract image of intricate black textures resembling crystals or fractured rock in a cave, with violet, pale pink and blue highlights, from The Very Fine Art Gallery.
  • Framed abstract artwork on a dark wall with decorative items on a wooden console table.
  • Close-up detail of Naturalia I #009 showing black abstract texture and surface
  • Close-up detail of Naturalia I #009 showing black tonal variation and pattern
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Naturalia I #009

Naturalia I #009

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An almost subterranean world emerges from deep layers of black, violet and midnight blue. Intricate, branching textures spread across the surface like crystals growing inside a cave, fractured mineral deposits or dark rock catching the faintest traces of light. Small flashes of pale pink, lavender and turquoise glimmer through the darkness, creating a sense of hidden depth and geological time. The image feels both mysterious and organic, inviting the eye to explore its shifting patterns and discover forms within the shadows.

Part of Naturalia I, this work began with a photographic negative transformed by time, humidity and organic change. The resulting textures reveal an unexpected beauty in deterioration, turning the physical traces of decay into an abstract landscape.

These images are printed on a high-quality partly glossy, partly matte finish with an intentional white border so they can be framed without losing any part of the image to a matte.

• 0.26 mm thick
• Slightly glossy
• Fingerprint resistant
• Paper sourced from Japan

Produced to order and delivered within the UK, with fully tracked delivery. Please allow 1–3 working days for production and 1–3 working days for 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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