'Skin Deep' Exhibition
- Authors: Button, Loris , Miller, Sally
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: Exhibition held at Space 22 Gallery, Ballarat,25th November -12th December This exhibition aimed to consider the ways in which we experience and inhabit our skin. The visual expression of that experience, premised in my case on place, memory and ageing, provided a key thematic link between two individual bodies of work. My works were triggered by a visit to a Korean Buddhist Temple in 2010. The drawings were intended to give visual expression to my continuting meditation on ageing in contemporary culture, and were therefore strongly influenced by that brief encounter with the spiritual strength and beauty of age old Buddhist artistic and spiritual practice at a critical time in my life.
Speaking Drawings : Works by Sally Miller
- Authors: Miller, Sally
- Date: 2016
- Type: Text
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- Description: 9th March - 2nd April 2016 A compellingly beautiful yet tragic series of drawings make up this exhibition of nine works created by artist Sally Miller in the months before her death in mid 2015. Sally's life was prematurely cut short by a progressive neurological disorder called Multiple System Atrophy (MSA) - a degenerative disease that steadily cripples movement and bodily function. These nine large graphite on paper drawings, each accompanied by a brief description dictated by Sally in the last weeks of her life, reflect the harsh and progressive assaults on her body - a beautiful, powerful and compelling last testament to Sally's courage and fierce commitment to her artistic practice and creative imagination. Image: Sally Miller, Unwinding, 2015 graphite on paper Courtesy the artist's estate