Trolley Dolly - Series No.1 - 60x90cm Vertical (#197260)

Trolley Dolly - Series No.1: 197260, bursting with colour and bittersweet contrast, this photograph from Raymond Mather’s Trolley Dolly series features a vibrant fashion doll with rainbow curls and a tear on her cheek, poised beside an overflowing miniature shopping trolley. Her outfit, a playful clash of patterns and colours, belies the deeper narrative: a life carried in fragments. The trolley is packed with symbolic necessities: pink ribbons, string, cork, fabric, plastic wrap, each item hinting at creativity, survival, and resilience.

Set against a blurred background of dappled light and shadow, this image captures the theatricality and fragility of those who live on the edges, especially women and children affected by homelessness. The doll’s stance is confident, but the story she tells is one of displacement dressed in flair. This work celebrates endurance and inventiveness, wrapped in a hyper stylised vision of truth.

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.