• Trolley Dolly - Series No.1: 197317 - Close Detail View, a Snow White doll sits on a brick ledge next to a miniature shopping trolley filled with soaps, cloths, and small household items. Her red shoes hang over the edge. The image reflects themes of homelessness, resilience, and femininity.
  • Trolley Dolly - Series No.1: 197317 - Room View, a Snow White doll sits on a brick ledge next to a miniature shopping trolley filled with soaps, cloths, and small household items. Her red shoes hang over the edge. The image reflects themes of homelessness, resilience, and femininity.
  • Trolley Dolly - Series No.1: 197317 - 74x104cm, a Snow White doll sits on a brick ledge next to a miniature shopping trolley filled with soaps, cloths, and small household items. Her red shoes hang over the edge. The image reflects themes of homelessness, resilience, and femininity.
  • Trolley Dolly - Series No.1: 197317 - 60x90cm, a Snow White doll sits on a brick ledge next to a miniature shopping trolley filled with soaps, cloths, and small household items. Her red shoes hang over the edge. The image reflects themes of homelessness, resilience, and femininity.
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Trolley Dolly - Series No.1 - 60x90cm Vertical (#197317)

Trolley Dolly - Series No.1 - 60x90cm Vertical (#197317)

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Trolley Dolly - Series No.1: 197317, a familiar fairy tale takes on a poignant twist in this fine art photograph from Raymond Mather’s Trolley Dolly series. Seated on the edge of a weathered brick ledge, a Snow White doll rests beside an overflowing miniature trolley packed with everyday items, handmade soaps, folded cloths, plastic containers, beads, and household scraps. Her red shoes dangle above the pavement, her eyes forward, suggesting a stillness between exhaustion and quiet determination.

This work reframes the fairy tale heroine not as a figure of fantasy, but as a metaphor for resilience amidst instability. Like many women navigating precarious housing or invisible homelessness, she carries a world in small containers. With signature use of scale, texture, and symbolism, Mather transforms a child's plaything into an emblem of endurance.

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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