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... out of time | Carl Warner
... out of time | Carl Warner
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Desire Path | Karla Marchesi
Desire Path | Karla Marchesi
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False Continuity | Jacinta Giles
False Continuity | Jacinta Giles
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Intimate Dialogues | Judith Wright
Intimate Dialogues | Judith Wright

Holdings 2023 | Group Exhibition

 

Holdings 2023 | Group Exhibition

28 November - 20 December, 2023

Jan Manton Gallery is pleased to present Holdings 2023, a group exhibition of selected works celebrating the exhibiting artists of 2023. We welcome you to our gallery stockroom for viewing.

Exhibiting Artists:

Andrew Browne
Angela Brennan
Dadang Christanto
David Fenoglio
Ian Friend
Jacinta Giles
Jonathan Kopinski
Joseph Daws
Kellie O’Dempsey
Miles Hall
Natalie Lavelle
Simon Degroot

 

FALL TO EARTH | Miles Hall

 

FALL TO EARTH | Miles Hall

28 November - 20 December, 2023

“As the force of Gravity pulls all animate and inanimate beings towards the earth it perhaps, inversely and paradoxically, that which connects us to something beyond.

These recent paintings have been created working under the direct inspiration of the Mediterranean light and the warmth that falls directly into the studio from above. I have tried to exploit the material qualities of paint and surface to create a cosmos of colour, rhythm, gesture – a territory held between stillness and movement.

Sometimes on the wall, sometimes on the floor, these new works are made through a process of combining solid and liquid layers of paint. Paint is not passive but rather an active participant, responding to the forces of gravity, gesture and climate.

Many of the paintings contain reflective pigments that create multiple chromatic variations depending on the ambient light and the position of the viewer - things will appear and disappear.”

— Miles Hall, 2023

 

Second Thoughts | Judith Wright

 

Second Thoughts | Judith Wright

31 October - 25 November, 2023

Jan Manton Gallery is pleased to present Judith Wright's new exhibition Second Thoughts on show between 31 October - 25 November 2023. Second Thoughts sees Judith Wright pair her favourite medium, large scale works on paper, with new materials.

Wright has created her own chipboard substrate, infused with her signature sepia metallic pigments, set in playful found frames. These new works accent Wright's interest in gestural mark making, with a particular intuition for finding movement in the material.

Wright's unique approach to installation art, which combines sculptural elements with paintings in dynamic movement-focussed ways, is informed by her experience as a performer with the Australian Ballet.

 

Wish You Were Here | Kellie O’Dempsey

 

Wish You Were Here | Kellie O’Dempsey

3 - 28 October, 2023

Jan Manton Gallery is pleased to present Kellie O'Dempsey's debut commercial exhibition Wish You Were Here on show between 3 - 28 October 2023. Wish You Were Here is an immersive installation of collaged works using paper, drawing, tape and video that transports the viewer into an uncertain landscape. Begun throughout the early days of the pandemic, worked and refined in 2023 during post-covid living, Wish You Were Here  began as a response to lockdowns and has continued to develop with transforming elements of humour and oddity.

In this site-specific installation, uncanny household objects collide with uncertain landscapes. In search of progress, multiple figures attempt to travel, yet go nowhere in this oddball world. Their figurative and abstract forms gently smash together as we all fumble for connection. Through repetitive rhythm, monotonous loops, neon lights, remnants of billboard posters, collaged objects and an unspecified time, Wish You Were Here blends the physical and the psychological for a moment of hypnotic but joyful reprieve.

Wish You Were Here is an ongoing project and has previously been exhibited at: Redlands Art Gallery, Cleveland; Northsite Contemporary Art Space, Cairns; Outer Space; Brisbane and Bundaberg Regional Gallery. It has been selected for the 2022 Queensland Regional Art Award. O’Dempsey’s other past performances and works have also been shown at: Art after Dark; Pier 2/3; 18th Biennale of Sydney; MONA FOMA, Hobart; White Night Melbourne; and the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; City of Brisbane’s Botanica 2019 & 2021; as well as the interactive exhibition 'The Storytellers' at the Museum of Brisbane.

The exhibition is accompanied by a soundtrack composed by Mick Dick.
Fish animated by Helena Papageorgiou.

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Kellie O’Dempsey Exhibition Essay by Dr Louise R Mayhew | 20.09.23
Kellie O’Dempsey Exhibition Essay by Dr Louise R Mayhew | 20.09.23

“…The artist’s projected outlines, which multiply, repeat, and gently loop, can be interpreted as visualizations of her shattered sense of subjectivity. The work is both literally and pictorially an attempt by O’Dempsey to maintain an artistic identity while also filling the shifting roles of daughter, nurse, sibling, administrator.”

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DISSEVER | Miles Hall

 

DISSEVER | Miles Hall

Online from 13 September 2023

Jan Manton Gallery is pleased to present DISSEVER by Miles Hall, our latest online exhibition showing from 13 September. Hall’s paper works capture the process of combining graphite pigment with an oil binder to create gestural qualities and forms. Each piece has been torn into two seperate pieces and is then recombined on the opposite side to reveal its tear.

“These works question the distinction between drawing and painting aiming to blur the boundaries habitually made between the two techniques,” states Hall in an exhibition essay by Jonathan McBurnie from Perc Tucker Regional Gallery in 2022. “This process allows me to create a physical encounter between colour and gesture where drawing and painting function as one.”