Rosie Miller

Flinders Lane Gallery / Melbourne 2025

Paperback #1 & #2, 2025

These two book works follow a series of paperback sculptures conceived in 2005. 

Despite a refined mythology and knowing of movement and behaviour of the book, I am always surprised that they respond differently through this process of reduction and development of shape and form.

Every book carved reveals something special, a softness and a pattern unique to the books properties, font, text lay out, ink, pulp. If the book had been read or not changes the flexibility in the fine gap between pages. 

The result is a reduced organic shaped paperback evoking to the viewer a perception of  calmness and silence.  

I have recently re-visited my paperback book sculptures from our balcony/workshop/studio in the forest on the Atherton Tablelands among the birds and pademelons… It’s a perfect place to make work and get very dusty..

Nucleus is the first completed sculpture of a four that I am working on this year.. the end of the book happened to have a little nuclear symbol printed on the last page, I thought this was an apt title and relative to the physicality of the sculpted book, essentially being the centre.

I’ve built individual timber shelves for these works and had perspex covers made locally, they sit nicely over the top protecting them from dust and insects.

Paper Town Time-based installation for Tinkering Tank

(made in conjunction with participating children at Tanks Arts Centre during the 2018 Cairns Children’s Festival) 2018

Time-lapse digital animation on flatscreen 4min 18 sec

Safe Space Travelling Exhibition

Curated by Christine Morrow

Museums and Galleries Queensland

Opening 30th Nov 2018 Logan Art Gallery

2019

Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery, QLD

Rockhampton Art Gallery, QLD

Dogwood Crossing Miles, QLD

2020

Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW

Maitland Regional Art Gallery, NSW

Devonport Regional Gallery,TAS

2021

Murray Bridge Regional Gallery, SA

Latrobe Regional Gallery, VIC

New England Regional Art Museum, NSW

University of Sunshine Coast Gallery, QLD

FLAME

International Women's Day Exhibition 2017

Tanks Arts Centre

Hours

ZIGGY

Group Show 

Crate59

2016

Paperworks 47 Shelved Sculpted Books & 500mtr Paper Installation

Solo Show

Crate59

Photos 1-6 by Michael Marzik

2015

43 Others with Rick Beresford

Paper Couch

Tanks Arts Centre

2015

Flying Monkey

2016

4x4 Exhibition

Altred Book Group Show

Brisbane Square Library & Cairns Regional Gallery

2015

Group Show

Reading Machine

18 Cornerstones

Kickarts Contemporary Arts 

2009

Photos by Michael Marzik

The April Shows

2009

Typecast

Sophie Gannon Gallery

2008

Solo Show

LINDBERG Contemporary Art, Collingwood Melbourne VIC

21st March - 16th April 2009

Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne VIC

May 20 - June 8, 2008

Paperback II

Blindside

Melbourne VIC

2008

Folded Morals

Pop up books

10 Mantle Pieces

Crate59

2011

VCA, Melbourne University, VIC Australia

2005 - 2007

Bachelor of Fine Art ( Visual Art ) 

Sketchbook

Pencil, Charcoal and Ink on paper

2005 - 2007