• Michael Miller’s Naturalia I #024, an abstract composition of pale luminous textures, deep blue-black shadows and turquoise glimmers, from The Very Fine Art Gallery.
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  • Close-up detail of Naturalia I #024 showing multicolour, black, navy and blue abstract texture and surface
  • Close-up detail of Naturalia I #024 showing multicolour, black, navy and blue abstract texture and surface
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Naturalia I #024

Naturalia I #024

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A pale, luminous edge gives way to deep shadows, with delicate turquoise glimmers and vertical streaks that suggest the shifting colours of an aurora in a dark night sky. The image feels like a fleeting celestial reflection, suspended between light and darkness.

Part of Naturalia I, this abstract photographic artwork explores the unexpected beauty that emerges through the transformation of damaged photographic negatives, where time and natural processes create patterns and colours that could never have been planned.

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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