Peter Milne (visual artist) explained

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

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]

Publications

• Fish in a barrel: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on Tour. Tender Prey, 1994. Reprinted by 2.13.61. .
• Beautiful lies : notes towards a history of Australia. Queensland Centre for Photography; St Peters, NSW: T&G, 2011. .
• When Nature Forgets. Melbourne: M.33, 2013. .
• A day in the life of Rowland S. Howard. Melbourne: M.33, 2015. .
• The Oddfellow's Daughter. Melbourne: M.33, 2015. .
• Fool's Paradise: The Early Years of The Melbourne Comedy Festival. Melbourne: M.33, 2008. . With essays by Judith Lucy, Sue-Ann Post, Greg Hocking and Kevin Whyte.^[5]
• Personal Hygiene. Melbourne: M.33, 2019. .
• Juvenalia. Melbourne: M.33, 2020. .

Collections

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

• Australian Performing Arts Collection,^[11]
• City Gallery, Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne, Australia^[4]
• Monash Gallery of Art, City of Monash, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia^[12]

External links

• Milne at M.33

Notes and References

1. Web site: Nick. Miller. 2020-06-08. In search of Melbourne's times past, Peter Milne revisits old images. 28 February 2020. The Sydney Morning Herald.
2. Web site: Photos of Melbourne's Grimy and Golden Past. Peter. Milne. 19 February 2015.
3. Web site: Juvenilia book launch / Centre for Contemporary Photography . 2020-06-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200501201703/https://ccp.org.au/education/public-programs/2020/juvenilia-book-launch . 2020-05-01 . live.
4. Web site: Anthony Morgan 1994/2019 . 2020-06-08 . City Collection . https://web.archive.org/web/20200320105518/http://citycollection.melbourne.vic.gov.au/anthony-morgan/ . 2020-03-20 . live.
5. Web site: Fool's Paradise: Backstage at a comedy festival. 22 March 2018. ABC Radio National.
6. Web site: 2020-06-08. Peter Milne - Juvenilia. 27 February 2020. paper-journal.com.
7. Web site: Peter Milne. www.mga.org.au.
8. Web site: Peter Milne Beautiful Lies: Notes Towards a History of Australia by Peter Milne. Peter. Milne. www.lensculture.com.
9. Web site: Peter Milne: Personal Hygiene on Art.Base.BASE. Art.Base.
10. Web site: Our top comics as you've never seen them. 15 April 2015. www.heraldsun.com.au.
11. Web site: Australian Performing Arts Collection.
12. Web site: 2020-06-08. Peter Milne. www.mga.org.au.