graham miller

waiting for the miracle

22 october - 13 november 2010

• www.grahammiller.com.au

Exceptional local photographer Graham Miller’s career has continued to skyrocket since his last exhibition with us in 2007.

He was a solo exhibition prize winner in the 2007 Kaunas Photo Festival in Lithuania and was selected to have a solo show at the 2008 Pingyao International Festival of Photography in China. Group exhibition invitations include shows in China, Germany, France, Lithuania, Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. This year he was selected to participate in international group exhibitions at the Rayko Photo Centre in San Franciso, and the Yokohama Festival of Photography in Japan. Next year his work will be seen at the Haggerty Museum of Art in Milwaukee USA. The National Gallery of Victoria purchased a suite of five photographs in 2008 as did the Art Gallery of WA in 2009. Other collections that hold his work include the Parliament House Collection Canberra, Edith Cowan University and Murdoch University.

Graham’s exhibition of new photographs, Waiting for the miracle, is named after a Leonard Cohen song in which an aging man laments the time he has wasted waiting for the miraculous, transformative relationship that will finally make him feel connected, to feel loved. Alone, he lives with the vague regret that he was blinded to the possibilities available to him earlier in his life. A sense of yearning, loneliness and time passing, is evident in many of Graham’s photographs of people, landscapes and homes. Many artists have commonly believed the miraculous to be omnipresent and part of the everyday fabric of the world, where commonplace subjects are carefully rendered with faithful realism so that the inherent magic of things becomes evident.

Graham noted that, “this sensibility underscores the photography that I admire; work where insight is revealed through the atmospheric effects of luminous light; where there is “a sense of possibility, precariously but tenaciously held” and that which responds to American photographer Robert Adams’ sentiment that we make art to keep intact “an affection for life”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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