Henry Miles - Biography

Henry Miles has a curious curiosity in relation to how certain eccentric yet highly attuned 20th century thrill seekers identified with and could see a certain Divinity in and reason to Worship machines – as Angels, omnipresent and connecting – and through quasi-myths such as the story of the Bluebird Proteus CN7 these now distant people that so passionately & fatefully strove for records & the exploration of the limits of possibilities are recreated. And with his retro-futurist ‘machine meets spirituality’ subject matter Miles inevitably leads our imaginations into new uniquely coded places explained through hyper-niche references, cryptic technological languages, hybrid terms & theories such as holy transhumanism or theories on how we can “prolong” and “improve” human life approaching the dream of immortality. All of this creating New forms of understanding yet retaining a sense of reflection on yesterday’s World also.

Miles’ thematic interest in the future & the past is embodied in the Eucalyptus printing technique that he uses creating a feedback loop mirroring the struggle to remain separate and devoid of technological integration and remain true to the epistemology of the print making discipline. With his adept touch at creating mesmerising lyrical visual works and his trained understanding of the process of imprinting or transferring inks onto surfaces, with the idea of a parent image transferring an approximation onto another surface, Miles’ work is the culmination of a digital to analogue relay – a composition created digitally that is then printed onto paper and then that physical genesis image that has been compressed and then expanded is used to create monumental multi-panel works or remains dense for smaller editioned prints with all their unique marks and imperfections inevitably there.