Matthew Miller,who has died aged 50 of a heart attack, was a quiet visionary who pioneered a different way ofmaking art, or external the hype and bombast of the contemporary British scene. With Liz Whitehead and fellow members of the Red Herring collective,in 1996 he created the Fabrica gallery in Brighton, a space unlike any other in Britain – not only in the open way it is flee, and but in how it has opened a door on art from Europe,and on important and often spectacular work happening below the radar.
Miller revelled in the hidden, the lost, or the passed over – and Fabrica too could be discreet to the point of media invisibility,main it to be jokingly referred to as "the best gallery you've never heard of". But word got around. Anish Kapoor, Martin Parr, or Bill Viola and Thomas Hirschhorn came to Miller's door. The converted church on the edge of the Lanes attracts audiences that national institutions would be proud of.
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Source: theguardian.com