Peter Milne (visual artist)

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Peter Milne (born 1960) is an Australian photographer and visual artist, born and living in Melbourne. [1] [2]

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He is known for his early work documenting the 1970s Melbourne punk scene [3] and the first decade of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. [4]

The 2018 monograph Fool's Paradise : The Early Years of the Melbourne Comedy Festival consists largely of candid images of comedians taken in bars and backstage. [5] In 2020 he published a book of works made in his late teens and early 20s, Juvenalia, [6] with photographs of Rowland S. Howard, Nick Cave and Mick Harvey, their bands The Birthday Party and The Boys Next Door as well as their friends, including Gina Riley, Polly Borland and Anita Lane.

From the early 2000s, Milne's practice has focused on creating narratives using montage, [7] collage [8] [9] and constructed 'film-stills' from movies that don't exist. [10]

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Milne's work is held in the following public collections:

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References

  1. Miller, Nick (28 February 2020). "In search of Melbourne's times past, Peter Milne revisits old images". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  2. Milne, Peter (19 February 2015). "Photos of Melbourne's Grimy and Golden Past".
  3. "Juvenilia book launch / Centre for Contemporary Photography". Archived from the original on 1 May 2020. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  4. 1 2 "Anthony Morgan 1994/2019". City Collection. Archived from the original on 20 March 2020. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  5. 1 2 "Fool's Paradise: Backstage at a comedy festival". ABC Radio National. 22 March 2018.
  6. "Peter Milne - Juvenilia". paper-journal.com. 27 February 2020. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  7. "Peter Milne". www.mga.org.au.
  8. Milne, Peter. "Peter Milne Beautiful Lies: Notes Towards a History of Australia by Peter Milne" via www.lensculture.com.
  9. "Peter Milne: Personal Hygiene on Art.Base.BASE". Art.Base.
  10. "Our top comics as you've never seen them". www.heraldsun.com.au. 15 April 2015.
  11. "Australian Performing Arts Collection".
  12. "Peter Milne". www.mga.org.au. Retrieved 8 June 2020.