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Analogue
Jamieson Miller
Analogue
29 April – 10 May 2025
hours:
Tuesday – Friday: 12pm – 7pm
Saturdays: 12pm – 4pm
admission: Free
I can see the appeal in making a singular coherent statement, however it seems that this exhibition is broader in its exploration. The impetus behind this exhibition developed as a response to the imposition of the digital world. Ubiquitous algorithms blend the individual away. I am captive to nostalgic aesthetic notions where objects and images identify idiosyncratic characteristics of the maker.
Carving as an analogue process allows for gradation, movement and subtle variations where marks and imperfections are visible rather than erased. The outer and the inner workings of the body are shown through simple gestures, clear lines and a sense of organic ebb and flow. Through this series I have been interested in the analogous continuum between physical form and inner experience. The composition plays with proportionality, both consciously and unconsciously. Some of the works have been truncated, others have been elongated. Vessels and chambers travel through, under and around each other.
In order to leave a mark on this world, I am conveying the workings of my imagination. Inevitably both attributes and limitations are exposed. The battle between the two is where the work is made. Often there is a contest between freedom of imagination and paralysing fear. Some of the poses play with notions of surrender, contortion, distortion, inversion and burying your gaze. These are expressed in both awkward and graceful manner.
Turning the world upside down is an attempt to disrupt the dominant digital paradigm.
Born in Melbourne, 1965
STUDIES
1990 – Graduate Diploma of Fine Art, Monash University
1984-87 – Degree in Fine Art, Chisholm Institute of Technology
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
2008 – Territories, Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne
2007 – Lineage, Dickerson Gallery, Sydney
2006 – Passage, Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne
2004 – Hold That Gaze, Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne
2003 – Patterns and Illusions, Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne
1998 – Echoes in my Mind, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne
1996 – Presumed Identity, Gallery 101, Melbourne
1994 – Inward Bound, Gallery 101, Melbourne
1993 – Connections, Waverley City Gallery, Melbourne
1991 – Post Graduate Exhibition, Wellington Gallery, Melbourne
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 – Convenire, fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne
2011 – Lorne Sculpture Biennale, Lorne
2011 – Montalto Sculpture Prize, Montalto Vineyard, Red Hill South
2010 – Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi
2009 – Aqueous Bloom, Gasworks Theatre, Melbourne
2008 – Montalto Sculpture Prize, Montalto Vineyard, Red Hill South
2007 – Contamination, Gasworks Theatre, Melbourne
2007 – Built perceptions, Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne
2006 – Art Melbourne 06, The Royal Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne
2005 – Art Sydney 05, Hordern Pavilion, Sydney
2004 – The Affordable Art Fair, The Royal Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne
2004 – Gasworks Artists Exhibition, Gasworks Theatre, Melbourne
2003 – Fundere Sculpture Prize, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne
2003 – Gasworks Artists Exhibition, Gasworks Theatre, Melbourne
2003 – Montalto Sculpture Prize, Montalto Vineyard, Red Hill South
2002 – Central Goldfields Sculpture Exhibition, Central Goldfields Regional Arts Complex
2002 – Out of the Dark – Gasworks Artists Exhibition, Gasworks Theatre, Melbourne
2002 – Fundere Sculpture Prize 2002, Yarra Sculpture Space, Melbourne
2001 – Castlemaine State Festival, Hedgehogs, Barkers Creek
2001 – Three Man Show, Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne
2001 – Fundere Sculpture Prize 2001, Yarra Sculpture Space, Melbourne
2001 – Grounds for Sculpture, McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin
2001 – Gasworks Artists Exhibition, Gasworks Theatre, Melbourne
2000 – Fundere Sculpture Prize 2000, Yarra Sculpture Space, Melbourne
2000 – Becton National Sculpture Exhibition, Gasworks Arts Park, Melbourne
2000 – 15 Gasworks Artists, Gasworks Theatre, Melbourne, Curated by Malcom Bywaters
2000 – Identities – Exploring Portraiture, Art Museum, Glenn College, Latrobe University
2000 – Unbearable Beauty, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne
2000 – Easter 2000, Outdoor Sculpture Show, Qdos Gallery, Lorne
1999 – End of Year Show – Bonanza, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne
1999 – Central Goldfields Sculpture Exhibition, Central Goldfields Regional Arts Complex
1998 – End of Year Show – M3, Yarra Sculpture Space, Melbourne
1998 – Gasworks Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Gasworks Park, Melbourne
1998 – Central Goldfields Sculpture Exhibition, Central Goldfields Regional Arts Complex
1998 – Postcard Show, Linden Gallery, St. Kilda Arts Centre
1997 – Artline 1997, Linden Gallery, St. Kilda Arts Centre, Curated by Malcom Bywaters
1997 – Central Goldfields Sculpture Exhibition, Central Goldfields Regional Arts Complex
1997 – Gasworks Studio Artists, Linden Gallery, St. Kilda Arts Centre
1996 – A four Art 1996, West Space, Melbourne
1996 – Review 96, Gallery 101, Melbourne
1996 – By Kind Permission, Latrobe University Art Museum
1996 – Fifth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne
1996 – Rupert Bunny Foundation Exhibition, Linden Gallery, St. Kilda Arts Centre
1995 – The Situation Now: A survey of local non objective art, curated by Dr. Christopher Heathcote, La Trobe University Gallery
1995 – Art Line 1995, Foy and Gibson Gallery, Melbourne
1995 – The Portrait Show, Platform Space, Spencer Street Station, Melbourne
1995 – Gasworks Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Gasworks Park, Melbourne
1995 – Ready Wrapped and Self-sealed, Linden Gallery, St. Kilda Arts Centre
1994 – The First Exhibition – The Kyneton Collection, Kyneton, curated by Ken Scarlett
1994 – Fourth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne
1994 – Christmas Show, Gallery 101, Melbourne
1993 – Artworkz 5, 101 Collins Street Acquisitive Prize, juried exhibition, Gallery 101, Melbourne
1992 – Wellington Gallery, Melbourne
1992 – Unaligned Sculptors, Melbourne Contemporary Art Fair
1990 – Extra Triennial, Gasworks Park, Melbourne
1987 – Sculptors from Chisholm, Caulfield Arts Centre, Melbourne
1987 – Chisholm Graduate Exhibition, Chisholm Institute of Technology, Melbourne
AWARDS & GRANT
2000 – Pat Corrigan Artist Grant
1991 – Tina Wentcher Sculpture Prize
COMMISSIONS
2004 – Trenerry Mews Apartments, Trenerry Crescent, Abbotsford, Melbourne
2002 – Great Western Tiers Sculpture Trail, Deloraine, Tasmania
2001 – The Melburnian Apartments, St. Kilda Road, Melbourne
2000 – Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Melbourne
COLLECTIONS
Baillieu Myer
National Bank of Australia
Monash University
Shire of Kyneton
City of Glen Eira
La Trobe University
Council of Adult Education, Victoria
Standard Roads
Swinburne University of Technology
PUBLICATIONS
2004 – Ken Scarlett, “Elgee Park – Sculpture in the landscape”
2004 – Louise Bellany, “Giving voice to the human experience”, The Age, December 11
2001 – Roger Taylor, “Grounds for Sculpture”, World Sculpture News Autumn Edition
2001 – Roger Taylor, “Fundere Sculpture Prize”, World Sculpture News Winter Edition
2001 – Roger Taylor, “Becton National Sculpture Exhibition”, World Sculpture News Winter
2001 – High & Low Interview with Roger Taylor, Radio RRR – 28/2/01
2000 – The Arts Show, ABC TV 26/10/00
2000 – Roger Taylor, “Unbearable Beauty”, World Sculpture News Summer Edition
2000 – Profile, Snapshot, ABC TV 2000 – Becton National Sculpture Exhibition, Exhibition Catalogue
1996 – “By Kind Permission”, exhibition catalogue, La Trobe University
1996 – Fifth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, exhibition catalogue
1995 – Christopher Heathcote, “The Situation Now: A Survey of Local Non-objective Art”, exhibition catalogue- La Trobe University Art Museum
1994 – “The First Exhibition”, exhibition catalogue, Shire of Kyneton
1994 – Ken Scarlett, “A Democratic Showcase”, Art Monthly, November, Volume No. 75
1994 – Christopher Heathcote, Review: “Inward Bound”, The Age, August 24
1993 – “Artworkz 5”, exhibition catalogue, Gallery 101
1993 – Christopher Heathcote, “A work of art or just an object”, The Age, September 24
Opening Night
Tuesday 29 April, 5-7pm