Perhaps someone already posted an idea like this one (it's not very original after all) but I don't have right now the time to check all other messages.
My point is, if I wanna browse through an Artist's gallery I must go back & forth from the gallery page (or open images in new window).
My idea is: Why not include a first, previus, next, last links that will navigate to the first (oldest) image posted by that artist, to the last (newest) image posted by that same artist, and to the previous and next images posted than the currently viewed. This is just like the same links on the gallery pages, that show N amount of thumbs per page, but instead of that would directly show the images (one per page of course).
What do you think?