• Trolley Dolly - Series No.1: 197291 - Close Detail View, a colourful handmade cloth doll with red pigtails stands beside a mini trolley filled with ribbons, trinkets, and found objects. Her shadow is cast onto a galaxy style mural wall in the background. The image explores homelessness, identity, and play through symbolic layering.
  • Trolley Dolly - Series No.1: 197291 - Room View, a colourful handmade cloth doll with red pigtails stands beside a mini trolley filled with ribbons, trinkets, and found objects. Her shadow is cast onto a galaxy style mural wall in the background. The image explores homelessness, identity, and play through symbolic layering.
  • Trolley Dolly - Series No.1: 197291 - 104x74cm, a colourful handmade cloth doll with red pigtails stands beside a mini trolley filled with ribbons, trinkets, and found objects. Her shadow is cast onto a galaxy style mural wall in the background. The image explores homelessness, identity, and play through symbolic layering.
  • Trolley Dolly - Series No.1: 197291 - 90x60cm, a colourful handmade cloth doll with red pigtails stands beside a mini trolley filled with ribbons, trinkets, and found objects. Her shadow is cast onto a galaxy style mural wall in the background. The image explores homelessness, identity, and play through symbolic layering.
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Trolley Dolly - Series No.1 - 90x60cm Horizontal (#197291)

Trolley Dolly - Series No.1 - 90x60cm Horizontal (#197291)

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Trolley Dolly - Series No.1: 197291, bold, bright, and symbolically loaded, this fine art photograph from Raymond Mather’s Trolley Dolly series features a handcrafted cloth doll standing proudly beside a miniature shopping trolley adorned with colourful scraps, ribbons, plastic trinkets, and layered textures. Her rainbow striped limbs, red pigtails, and stitched smile project innocence and play, but a deeper narrative hovers in the background. Behind her, the doll's silhouette casts onto a cosmic mural, turning the mundane into the mythic.

This image speaks to identity, survival, and transformation. The doll represents a spirit of joy, protection, and vulnerability, while the cart she pulls, overflowing with life's salvaged fragments, echoes the experience of those navigating homelessness. At once whimsical and profound, this work captures the emotional spectrum of those who live visibly invisible lives.

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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