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

Judith Wright

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.

 

Intimate Dialogues | Judith Wright

 

Intimate Dialogues | Judith Wright

30 March - 24 April, 2022

In Intimate Dialogues, I’ve come back to my earlier interests. I’ve always been interested in the vulnerability of the human condition in times of love and loss. Communication and dialogue are necessary tools for trying to heal from, and come to terms with, those situations. These works have various reference points to ‘carnival’ and myth. They also introduce animal imagery as a way of connecting with the animal world, beyond our established human connections with each other, our families, and our friends. It’s a new metaphor in my work simply because I’m becoming more conscious of our deteriorating natural environments, and the role that humans have had in this. By embracing the animal world, I hope to broaden our human-to-human dialogue to a wider sphere of knowing and being.

— Judith Wright

 

Covid Carnivale | Judith Wright

 

Covid Carnivale | Judith Wright

10 February - 28 February 2021

Jan Manton Gallery is pleased to present Judith Wright’s recent exhibition ‘Covid Carnivale’ showing from 10 February – 28 February. Wright’s latest series of works contain a sense of the carnivalesque and chaotic whilst continuing her preoccupation with theatricality, transience, physicality and the macabre. As stated by Michele Helmrich, ‘Covid Carnivale marks these moments of remembrance at a time when each of us must contemplate our mortality’. The exhibition will present installation-style works on wood as well as a series of large-scale paintings on Japanese paper, each work vibrating with tonal tension due to their vibrant stained surfaces.

We welcome you to enter the Covid Carnivale during our gallery hours Wednesday to Saturday 10am - 5pm & 11- 4pm Sunday.

'The works of Judith Wright shape-shift the viewer into a different mindset. A rational view gives way to a landscape of shadows and fledgling dreams, populated by fragments of creatures, human and otherwise...Above and about us, a cast of animals from farm and zoo, nature, home and spirit oscillate in a mobile of many parts, their flipsides revealing human faces. Painted on oddly shaped scraps of wood, faces and body parts are sometimes suspended one under the other in twos or threes, further animating this strangely happy flock. Have they found release from story books and toys?...'

— Michele Helmrich

 

Krista Berger, Daniel Mafe & Judith Wright ‘Drawn to Abstraction’, 17 Feb-26 Mar 2011

Judith Wright ‘Desire’, 9 Jun-3 Jul 2010

Joachim Froese, Janet Laurence, Carl Warner & Judith Wright ‘Focus’, 17 Mar-10 Apr 2010

Judith Wright ‘The Gift’, 20 Aug-13 Sep 2008

Judith Wright ‘In Praise of Darkness’, 2 Dec 2006-28 Jan 2007