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
21 March - 8 April, 2023
Jonathan Kopinski’s latest offering Nervous. Solid. Nothing. continues the artist’s exploration into psycho-scenographic imagery. Eschewing overt didactic arcs in favour of fragmentary and often incongruous motifs and images, Kopinski’s compositions present scenes severed from reality, with trace elements of it. The strange blend of visual language across photorealism, abstraction, collage and hand renderings give an initial hint of solid recognition, followed by a nervous apprehension that, although you may feel it, what you are looking at is unknowable, nothing.
Exhibiting artist Jonathan Kopinski joined Alain Guillemain in the space to discuss the theme of ‘discontinuous – how the mind imposes meaning upon fragments’ in Nervous. Solid. Nothing. (21 March - 8 April).
Assembled figure towers over,
made of whirlwind figure submerged,
tears two colours shredded stream pulls down,
half head, shrapnel floats fast,
centered in mirror image insect, woman centered in stream…
August 25 - September 12, 2021
Jan Manton Gallery is proud to present Bourgeois Spoon by Jonathan Kopinski. In line with previous efforts, Kopinski’s latest series of work has been produced without a specific underlying narrative or conceptual arc. This allows for unexpected thematic affinities (i.e. places and issues of societal angst, crisis, politics, idealism) to unconsciously emerge between seemingly unrelated and irrational subject matter, blurring any perceived separation between past, present and future.
Exhibition essay writer Zali Matthews state, ‘Architecture, world politics, economics, the human body and Renaissance art – Kopinski’s interests stretch far and wide. In Bourgeois Spoon, these themes and references are heavily peppered across a series of works painted on canvas boards, arranged by the artist into various polyptychs. Muted colours and simplified compositions dominate, painted alternately with thick, steady layers of paint and explosive streaks of dry colour.’
12 February - 7 March 2020
Jan Manton Art is pleased to present Jonathan Kopinski, a Brisbane-based artist with a focus on psycho-scenographic paintings that capture very particular and often peculiar moments of both personal and collective history.
Each scene is painted from memory (whether experienced firsthand or informed through learned events), without the use of photographic or reference material. This recording occurs sometimes moments after the incident takes place; other times it emerges after decades. This seperation between experience and representation is a vital part of the painting process, whereby the act of remembering allows for an intensified abstraction of character and setting.
In line with previous efforts, this collection has also been produced without a specific underlying narrative or conceptual arc. This allows for unexpected thematic affinities (i.e. places and issues of societal angst, crisis, politics, idealism) to unconsciously emerge between seemingly unrelated and irrational subject matter, blurring any perceived separation between past, present and future.
