Max Miller
(Australia 1940– )
- Title
- Pure land - Henso
- Place of origin
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East Kangaloon →
New South Wales →
Australia
- Year
- 1989
- Media category
- Materials used
- softground etching, aquatint, printed in blue, purple, brown and green ink from five zinc plates on five sheets of white wove paper
- Edition
- 2/5
- Dimensions
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99.6 x 249.5cm platemark overall (irreg.); 106.3 x 253.8cm sheet overall
- Signature & date
- Signed and dated lower c. part e
- Credit
- Purchased with funds provided by the Young Friends of the Art Gallery Society of New South Wales 1990
- Accession number
- 25.1990.1.a-e
- Copyright
- © Max Miller
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
Max Miller studied in Sydney, Florence and London and has exhibited his work since 1970. He is also a distinguished master printer who has worked with many artists including Brett Whiteley, John Olsen and Lloyd Rees.
Miller has for many years been attracted to Asian art and philosophy, particularly Buddhism, which has informed his artistic sensibility. His principal subject is the Australian landscape; his closely observed drawings of flora and fauna inform his more abstract work. This etching was made by abutting five plates, the composition echoing the format of Japanese screens.
"His concern… is not only to capture the physical topography of a place or its sense impressions, but to somehow convey the sense of the spirit of the place and to relate this spirit to a much broader understanding of the spirit of the universe". [Sasha Grishin, 'Australian printmaking in the 1990s, artist printmakers 1990-1995', Sydney: Craftsman House, 1997 p.204]
© Australian Art Department, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2004
- Bibliography (3)
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Anne Ryan (Australia) (Curator), Sydney prints: 45 years of the Sydney Printmakers, Sydney, 2006. List of works.
Anne Ryan (Australia) (Author), Contemporary Australian prints from the collection, Domain, 2004, (colour illus.). cat.no. 33
'Past and present: reflecting the diversity of Gallery's largest collection' by Anne Ryan, pg. 54-56., Look: 1953-2003 celebrating 50 years May 2003, May 2003, 55.
- Exhibition history (4)
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Contemporary Australian prints from the collection (2004), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 03 Apr 2004–06 Jun 2004.
Sydney Prints: 45 years of the Sydney Printmakers, S.H. Ervin Gallery, 19 Aug 2006–24 Sep 2006.
Sydney Prints: 45 years of the Sydney Printmakers, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, 09 Feb 2007–11 Mar 2007.
Sydney Prints: 45 years of the Sydney Printmakers, Tamworth City Gallery, 24 Mar 2007–29 Apr 2007.
