printmaker and socialist, was one of the 10 artist-members of the 'Melbourne Popular Art Group’ who produced a folio of 14 linocuts, Eureka 1854-1954 (Melbourne 1954), to pay tribute to 'the stand of the Ballarat miners in the Eureka Stockade’ (copy TMAG). Miller did three images in the set: nos 6 ( “Burn the Licences!” – a group of men), 10 ( The Sly Grog Seller ) and The Pikeman. No.11 The Sentry (a miner guarding the flag at night) is by Maurice Carter ; Len Gale drew no.8, The Blacksmith ; and nos 2 ( “Joe! Joe! The Traps are coming” , with a mine shaft like a crucifix), nos 4 ( The Magistrate ) and 5 ( On Bakery Hill ) are by Noel Counihan . Ailsa O’Connor did no.7 Building the Stockade (and erecting the flag); her then husband Pat O’Connor did no.3 The Licence Hunt (a simplified story); Ernie McFarlane did no.9 The Blacksmith (a second version to complement Gale’s). No.13 Trampling the Flag is by Naomi Schipp ; no.1, a silk-screen portrait of Peter Lalor, is by Ray Wenban ; and the last, no.14 After the Battle (a mother mourning over her son’s dead body), is by Mary Zuvella .
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- Date written:
- 1996
- Last updated:
- 2007
