Rusten House - Networks Australia exhibition

Members of the Networks Australia Group exhibited at Rusten House, Queanbeyan New South Wales.

8 – 30 April 2022
Networks Australia
Site Specific - artists respond to Rusten House

This exhibition draws public attention to the history of Rusten House, its architecture, surrounding heritage garden, uses of the building and relationship to community. The artworks of this textiles-based group convey ideas about the early development of Queanbeyan, its health and social systems, its people, approaches to land use and landscape design. There are many stories to be told.

Rozalie Sherwood

Sandra Obst

Susan Hey

Valerie Kirk

Wendy Dodd

Liz Perry

Monique van Nieuwland

Ola Robertson

Beverly Moxon 

Cheryl Jobsz

Cheryl Jobs 

Deborah Faeyrglenn 

Dotti Le Sage 

Gail Nicholls

Janet Long

Janet Long

Jenny Manning 

Josie Cosgrove

Entwined Jenny Manning and Vivian Lightfoot

 

Entwined

Vivien Lightfoot and Jenny Manning

West Gallery, Belconnen Arts Centre

Opening 6pm Friday 20 May 2022

20 May – 3 July 2022

Artist talks from 5 pm on 20 May 2022 

Jenny’s drawings and prints, and Vivien’s ceramics address our joint concerns about the viability of the unique Australian flora that once astonished Joseph Banks, Daniel Solander, and artist Sydney Parkinson when they arrived on the east coast of Australia in 1770. Sadly, many of our wilderness areas are now colonised with weeds or fast-growing native species that find their footing following such disturbances as land clearing or bushfires.

Our work develops a language of plant interactions. The strong forms of Australian flora are mingled with stems, flowers, and seeds of introduced plants. Banksia cones are strangled by honeysuckle and kurrajong pods are contained within a tangle of bristly oxtongue.
Weeds are now endemic to the Australian landscape so that, to the untrained eye, they are often accepted as normal. Native plants are dangerously outcompeted by many rambling species that have been carelessly introduced. Biodiversity suffers as the native plants are subsumed.

Belconnen Artrs Centre Website 

Jenny Manning InterWoven 5

Belconnen arts Centre 

9 July - 15 August 2021

Jenny Manning, Lidded Basket, 2018
410mm height x 420mm width x 410mm depth
Inspired by African/Islamic and Pre Columbian basket patterns And Pre Columbian basket patterns and Pre Columbian basket patterns

Jenny Manning, Open Basket,  2019
160mm height x 350mm width x 350mm depth
Inspired by African/Islamic and Pre Columbian basket patterns And Pre Columbian basket patterns and Pre Columbian basket patterns

Jenny Manning Beaded Basket 2020
300mm height x 450mm width x 450mm depth
Inspired by African/Islamic and Pre Columbian basket patterns And Pre Columbian basket patterns and Pre Columbian basket patterns 

Jenny Manning - Work in progress

Jenny Manning 

Jenny Manning  Seed Pod 2018,Copper wire, 75cm wide x 100 cm 

Jenny Manning  Kurrajong 2019, 

 Pen and Ink on paper  h 57cm x w 75cm  unframed  67cm x 85 cm approx framed

Artist Statement - Jenny Manning 

Every tree begins with a seed

A seed contains all the genetic information to create the most complex and important growing plant in the world.

My wall piece is made from a number of crocheted seed pod shapes using fine copper wire. They are connected together to form an oval form 75cm wide by 100 cm tall.

In am interested in the patterns and the shadows that these crocheted seed pods cast on the wall as well as the way repetition of a small form can create a larger form of identical

 shape--- a structural system often found in botany.

I am also interested in interpreting this imagery in two dimensions. This large black and white pen and ink drawing explores the complex botanical structure of the Kurrajong tree.

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Covet 2 - Gallery Overstroom

 Golden Lung 2 Sharon Peoples, machine embroidery

For those that participated in Covet 2 in Amsterdam at Gallery Overstroom, this is now the correct link to the exhibition if you would like to use it for CV's etc.
Covet 2

Jenny Manning - Vessel

JENNY MANNING

VESSEL

An exhibition at Form Gallery, Queanbeyan

19 April – 11 May 2016

Artist’s Statement
The main themes and subject matter of this exhibition focus upon the container or vessel and their relevance to human culture. Through a variety of processes from drawing and painting to coiling and ceramic decoration, I have created works that use pattern and form to reference the decorative aesthetic of Islamic, Mayan, Jomon or Navaho cultures. 


The symmetry and colour of the patterns in the drawings, baskets and ceramics are dictated by both the circularity of the form and the slow decorative process whether it be in pen and ink, pencil, coloured yarn or underglaze. 


Creating the baskets is a process that is both meditative and satisfying. It is slow and repetitive, with each wrapped stitch gradually building the pattern. The colour changes happen progressively and the form appears over months of time. Sometimes the pattern evolves from the coiling, spiralling process of wrapping plastic tubing with coloured yarn, but sometimes the pattern follows a predetermined design. 

Form Studio and Gallery 

Jenny Manning

Jenny Manning Drawing 2

 Jenny Manning, Wire knot

 Jenny Manning, Wire knot

 Jenny Manning, Wire knot

Belconnen Arts Centre

Jenny Manning

2012 Networks, 1 Jenny Manning, Small knots 1-20

Jenny Manning, 2012 Networks, 1 Master knot 1169

Jenny Manning, 2012 Networks, 1 Square not 1219

Jenny Manning, 2012 Networks, 1 double bow knot 1212

Jenny Mannin, 2012 Networks, 1 the eight part knot 603 

Belconnen Art Centre

Nets Exhibition Geelong 2012- Artists work

Avril Douglas

Jenny Manning

Julia Triston

Bev Thomas

Marli Popple, Shibori textile

Liz Jeneid, Sieve Book 2009/10

 Left to Right: Maggi Toner-Edgar, Janet Wilde, Gwyn Hunt and Valerie Kirk

Katherine White and Jane Wrobel

Dianne Liebke

Jenny Manning

I have, since my studies in the 1980s, been obsessed with wrapping, knotting, tangling and constructing with rope, wool and other fibres. I created and made drawings of three dimensional wrapped and knotted structures during my sculpture degree and these forms have been referred to in my practice ever since.

Recently I have been exploring the parallels between human and animal veins, arteries and organs with those found in the plant and insect kingdoms. These networks for transmitting life fluids seem to be repeated in the microscopic world as well as in the structure of river deltas and erosion gullies. Electron microscopic images of fungi have stimulated a series of large black and white pen and ink drawings where the intricacy and beauty of the filamentous growth patterns belies their toxic effects on humans and animals.

In another body of work I have explored still life compositions creating images of overlapping natural forms and more recently the importance of design and mathematical proportion within the still life tradition. I continue to create brightly coloured knitted mohair rugs where the small square modules are combined to create intricate and complex traditional patchwork patterns.

‘Torus’ 2010
Medium: pen and ink on card
Size: H: 90cm x W:140cm

The Torus - a revolving circle around an axial void is defined here by a network of capillaries
and veins which carry energy to all living cells, thereby combining mathematical geometry with the patterns of natural growth.

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