• Trolley Dolly - Series No.1: 197147 - Close Detail View, a blue skinned fashion doll with pastel hair sits inside a miniature shopping trolley filled with handmade props including a cupcake, bag, and clipped paper rolls. Set against a striped and crocheted background, the image explores themes of homelessness, childhood, and resilience.
  • Trolley Dolly - Series No.1: 197147 - Room View, a blue skinned fashion doll with pastel hair sits inside a miniature shopping trolley filled with handmade props including a cupcake, bag, and clipped paper rolls. Set against a striped and crocheted background, the image explores themes of homelessness, childhood, and resilience.
  • Trolley Dolly - Series No.1: 197147 - 74x104cm, a blue skinned fashion doll with pastel hair sits inside a miniature shopping trolley filled with handmade props including a cupcake, bag, and clipped paper rolls. Set against a striped and crocheted background, the image explores themes of homelessness, childhood, and resilience.
  • Trolley Dolly - Series No.1: 197147 - 60x90cm, a blue skinned fashion doll with pastel hair sits inside a miniature shopping trolley filled with handmade props including a cupcake, bag, and clipped paper rolls. Set against a striped and crocheted background, the image explores themes of homelessness, childhood, and resilience.
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Trolley Dolly - Series No.1 - 60x90cm Vertical (#197147)

Trolley Dolly - Series No.1 - 60x90cm Vertical (#197147)

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Trolley Dolly - Series No.1: 197147, playful and poignant in equal measure, this early work from Raymond Mather’s Trolley Dolly series stages a blue skinned fashion doll perched atop a miniature shopping trolley overflowing with symbolic essentials: a handmade cupcake, a tiny satchel, makeshift bedding, and clips pegged like laundry in transit. With her bright eyes and candy coloured hair, the doll appears both content and displaced, an emblem of aesthetic care amid precarious conditions.

Set against a domestic crochet blanket and soft furnishings, the scene highlights the juxtaposition between comfort and uncertainty. The doll, like many living on society’s edges, carries her life with her. Mather invites us to look closer, not just at the doll, but at the invisible narratives she represents.

Printed on museum-grade archival cotton rag paper using archival pigment inks. Each work is individually signed and accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.

Production and Provenance

Original image captured: 2019, Murwillumbah NSW
Limited edition of 50
Produced and fulfilled in Australia


Series Origin and Exhibition History

Trolley Dolly, Series No.1 was developed in response to The Other Portrait Exhibition at Proudfoots Loading Dock Gallery, Murwillumbah, 2019. The works were created specifically for this community devised exhibition following an invitation from the curators, Dev Lengjel and Chelle Wallace.

Related Series

This artwork forms part of Trolley Dolly Series No.1. Related works from this collection may be viewed in Trolley Dolly Series No.2.

 

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