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
15 August - 2 September, 2023
New Works 2023 presents a combination of practice by Joseph Daws, with a debut into sculptural pieces. The exhibition includes new paintings that continue Daws’ interest in landscape and still-life, presented alongside an abstract body of work which examines pixelated imagery and digital processes. The new sculptures are an extension of Daws recent Resolution paintings, where the artist sampled pixels from digital images of his work, enlarged the grid, and recreated the correlating hues in oil paint. Of this process, Daws states:
“I was interested in how the pixels operate as a pictorial space on this scale, and how the viewer reads this space. There is a minimalist, optical quality to them at times, and they sometimes read more or less so abstracted from actual associations with the real world.”
Daws’ plywood sculptures leave the nature of the substrate unhidden, highlighting a tensity within their materiality:
“It creates a tension between the ‘boxiness’ of the work and any illusional/pictorial space it presents—akin to the white primer of an unfinished painting disrupting the pictorial plane.”
Together, this new body of work integrates a continuous thread of practice and shares insight into the artist’s iterative processes, combining a physical and digital studio. The diversity in styles throughout this exhibition highlight a multitude of compositional play and a conversation between two-dimensional and three-dimensional perspectives.
Exhibiting artist Joseph Daws joined Alain Guillemain in the space to explore the theme of ‘Flux and Identity' in New Works (15 August - 2 September 2023).
10 - 28 November, 2021
Jan Manton Gallery is pleased to present Joseph Daws’ exhibition Resolution on show from 10 - 28 November 2021.
Joseph Daws describes the effect of these seemingly pixelated paintings, stating:
Allowing the works to have the openness to connect with a wider discourse is an important aspect. I'm not going to say what it is or isn't. And if you look at the works, they're not trying to represent an object in pictorial space. So it's the structure of the work itself that does the referencing.
From the Studio
Jan Manton Gallery rang Joseph Daws in the lead up to his upcoming solo exhibition Resolution, 10 - 28 November 2021. During our conversation, Daws spoke about his latest series of works, including his newfound use of heavily pixelated imagery and their obscured relationship between seeing and understanding images in the digital age.
Gallery Assistant Zali Matthews sat on the phone with Daws to learn more…
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