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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

Miles Hall | Petit Pois

 

Petit Pois | Miles Hall

2 - 24 December 2020

Jan Manton Gallery is pleased to present Miles Hall's latest exhibition PETIT POIS.

Hall is an Australian born artist, though currently resides in Montpelier, France. His recent series of work titled 'Petit Pois' translates to 'the little green pea' and makes reference to the fairytale of the Princess and the Pea.

Miles states in an interview with Louis Martin Chew:

“As I started making this work in April 2020, we went into confinement. And the paintings became something very different. At their base is the idea of layering. The image is the result of embedded layering and this is where the story of the princess and the pea – the green pea – comes in. I always loved the Hans Christian Anderson tale of the twenty mattresses with the pea at the bottom because, in a painting, the underpainting, the first few marks and impressions have a way of coming all the way through and manifesting themselves on the surface.”

 

Lost Pastoral | Saffron Newey

 

Lost Pastoral | Saffron Newey

7 October - 1 November 2020

Jan Manton Gallery is pleased to present Saffron Newey's latest exhibition Lost Pastoral showing from 7 October - 1 November, 2020. 

Lost Pastoral features reminiscences of Romantic landscape paintings, hazy and soft focused, devoid of definition and divorced from their original contexts. Painters Louis Buvelot (Swiss-Australian), Hans Güde (Norwegian), Eugene von Guerard (Austrian-Australian) and Albert Bierstadt (German-American) have been appropriated in this series to present a remembrance of Romantic landscape history painting... Within this body of work the Romantic sublime meets its contemporary, online counterpart – the digital sublime. The latter is a space in which time, place and context become miscellaneous and “other” worlds evolve.
— Saffron Newey

 

Together. Alone. | Dylan Jones

 

Together. Alone. | Dylan Jones

9 September - 4 October 2020

Jan Manton Gallery is proud to present Dylan Jones’ latest exhibition ‘Together. Alone.’

Continuing his preoccupation with the figure, Jones uses the human body as a vehicle to explore the collective and the individual response to times of adversity. Using handmade paint applied in gestural and thick brush strokes, each step of Jones’ process is invested with raw emotion. His work points to a universality and relishes in the spontaneity of his artistic medium as well as the human experience.

2020 may be the most transformative and turbulent year of the 21st century. It is redefining the way people live and connect worldwide. Humanity is experiencing a collective grief in which individuals feel both together and alone simultaneously. Despite the ongoing anxiety and disparity, there continues to be countless acts of kindness and courage. The isolated figures in this series of work capture this state of flux. They appear detached and wounded, yet unified by the vacant abyss in which they reside. Contained within this series of works is a sense of hope and expectation for what is to come.

— Dylan Jones, August 2020

 

Foreign Language | Aaron Butt

 

Foreign Language | Aaron Butt

12 August - 6 September 2020

Jan Manton Gallery is pleased to present Aaron Butt’s recent series of work Foreign Language. 

Within the exhibition, Butt navigates three journeys; his residency in The Netherlands in 2019, Ian Fairweather's 1952 raft journey to Indonesia and documentation of remote 1970s Land Art in America. 

Through the medium of paint, Foreign Language explores photography and the written words’ ability to traverse space and time and give affect to place. These images are largely presented on found vintage substrates, combining abstraction and vast images of nature with small constructed objects.

Natalie Lavelle | Deliberate Pictures

 

Deliberate Pictures | Natalie Lavelle

17 July - 9 August, 2020

Deliberate Pictures is part of a continuing inquiry into concepts that explore surface relationships where visual perception prompts a tangible awareness of painting’s object hood in relation to our own body and the natural world.

These works retain a connection to the ‘thereness’ and ‘thingness’ of a painting, instead of contemplating it as ‘neither being nor nothingness’. They request viewers to comprehend the reality of art, the medium, and the materials that is presented to them. Paintings that offer their own medium as subject point, both, inward to themselves and outward to their relationship with other things. In turn, we become conscious of a recognisable common physicality between object and Self and ultimately our space amongst all things.

Working in spontaneous and investigational methodologies, the paintings navigate constructed forms and space through various brushwork and stitching embedded together in abstract and monochromatic compositions.

 

Flux | Jacinta Giles

 

Flux | Jacinta Giles

11 March - 4 April 2020

Jan Manton Gallery is pleased to present Jacinta Giles, a Brisbane-based artist whose conceptually driven photographic practice explores the complex relationship between perception, memory and temporality within contemporary culture.

In using unconventional photographic processes - which take their cues from how memory operates - the images oscillate between the movement and stillness and the seen and unseen. Through the cutting away of images from the flux of everyday visual experience, their elements are intrinsically displaced in the strange and confined space of the photograph.

In this collection of work the photograph becomes a distancing device, challenging us to an awareness of the structures of visual perception that organise memory. These works also reflect the artist’s commitment to contesting the boundaries of traditional notions of lens-based art, blurring the line between painting, photography and the filmic.

 

History of the Landwehr Canal | Jonathan Kopinski

 

History of the Landwehr Canal | Jonathan Kopinski

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.

 

At the still point, there the dance is | Aaron Perkins

 

At the still point, there the dance is | Aaron Perkins

12 February - 7 March, 2019

Jan Manton Art is pleased to present Aaron Perkins’ latest series of work At the still point, there the dance is.

In this series, Perkins continues his exploration of history painting as a means to critically engage with the current affairs of contemporary society.

Using an abstracted combination of text and image obtained from various online news services, the works resist an all-at-once perception to privilege subjective interpretations made in the space between abstraction and figuration, between looking and reading, and between surface and interface.