graham miller

suburban splendour

6 july - 4 august 2007

• press release
• price list

Inspired by literature and cinema, the pictures in Suburban Splendour owe much to the American short story writer Raymond Carver.

It seems to me that Carver’s vision of ordinary blue collar people living lives of quiet desperation taps into a sense of contemporary isolation that reflects the anomie, uncertainties and vulnerabilities of existing in a world changed after 9/11, and on a planet which contemplates an undecided environmental future. These compressed cinematic frames try to articulate something of the soft lament that Carver alludes to. The characters are troubled, but not irretrievably lost; they carry a dignified endurance and a sense of bruised optimism. These people are survivors. They have a desire, as we all do, to be transported from darkness into light.

Graham Miller 2007

aina

edition of 6

archival inkjet print

80 x 100cm

2007

$1,600 unframed/$1,900 framed

sold 2/6 national gallery of victoria

alice

edition of 6

archival inkjet print

80 x 100cm

2005

$1,600 unframed/$1,900 framed

sold 1/6 murdoch university, 3/6 national gallery of victoria

amanda

edition of 6

archival inkjet print

80 x 100cm

2005

$1,600 unframed/$1,900 framed

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rhonda + chantelle

edition of 6

archival inkjet print

80 x 100cm

2007

$1,600 unframed/$1,900 framed

sold 1/6, 2/6, 3/6 national gallery of victoria

sheridan road

edition of 6

archival inkjet print

80 x 100cm

2007

$1,600 unframed/$1,900 framed

claire

edition of 6

archival inkjet print

80 x 100cm

2006

$1,600 unframed/$1,900 framed

kylie

edition of 6

archival inkjet print

80 x 100cm

2006

$1,600 unframed/$1,900 framed

dave

edition of 6

archival inkjet print

80 x 100cm

2005

$1,600 unframed/$1,900 framed

outer drive

edition of 6

archival inkjet print

56 x 70cm

2007

$950 unframed/$1,200 framed

jefferson drive

edition of 6

archival inkjet print

70cm x 56cm

2007

$950 unframed/$1,200 framed

frank

edition of 6

archival inkjet print

80 x 100cm

2006

$1,600 unframed/$1,900 framed

sold 1/6, 2/6, 3/6 edith cowan university, 4/6, 5/6 national gallery of victoria

lucy

edition of 6

archival inkjet print

80 x 100cm

2007

$1,600 unframed/$1,900 framed

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cathedral park

edition of 6

archival inkjet print

80 x 100cm

2006

$1,600 unframed/$1,900 framed

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henry

edition of 6

archival inkjet print

80 x 100cm

2005

$1,600 unframed/$1,900 framed

sold 1/6

shelby avenue

edition of 6

archival inkjet print

80 x 100cm

2007

$1,600 unframed/$1,900 framed

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jessica

edition of 6

archival inkjet print

80 x 100cm

2005

$1,600 unframed/$1,900 framed

sold 1/6, 3/6

kioko

edition of 6

archival inkjet print

80 x 100cm

2005

$1,600 unframed/$1,900 framed

lisa

edition of 6

archival inkjet print

80 x 100cm

2005

$1,600 unframed/$1,900 framed

luke

edition of 6

archival inkjet print

80 x 100cm

2006

$1,600 unframed/$1,900 framed

robert

edition of 6

archival inkjet print

80 x 100cm

2006

$1,600 unframed/$1,900 framed

sold 2/6 national gallery of victoria

annie

edition of 6

archival inkjet print

80 x 100cm

2007

$1,600 unframed/$1,900 framed

walton street

edition of 6

archival inkjet print

80 x 100cm

2007

$1,600 unframed/$1,900 framed

johnno

edition of 6

archival inkjet print

80 x 100cm

2006

$1,600 unframed/$1,900 framed

joe

edition of 6

archival inkjet print

80 x 100cm

2007

$1,600 unframed/$1,900 framed

everson creek

edition of 6

archival inkjet print

80 x 100cm

2007

$1,600 unframed/$1,900 framed