Ross Manning (b. 1978) creates kinetic sculptures made from everyday materials such as domestic fans, fluorescent lights, household twine and electronics. Revealing both the construction and materials in his installations, Manning playfully dissects overlooked technologies to produce hypnotic exchanges between light, sound and movement.
Selected solo and group exhibitions include Melody Lines, Liveworks: Festival of Experimental Art, Performance Space and Carriageworks, Sydney (2016); Set in Motion, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand (2016); Colourshift: Ross Manning + Kit Webster, Alternative Space Loop, Seoul (2016); Light Play: Ideas, Optics, Atmosphere, The University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane (2015); GOMA Q: Contemporary Queensland Art, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (2015); The Kaleidoscopic Turn, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2015); 19th Biennale of Sydney: You Imagine What You Desire, Cockatoo Island, Sydney (2014); Different Rhythms, Dark Mofo, Hobart (2014); Ross Manning: Volumes, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth (2013); Field Emissions, Starkwhite Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (2012); Sonic Spheres: TarraWarra Biennial 2012, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, Victoria (2012); Double Refraction, Lismore Regional Gallery, New South Wales (2010); Sunshine and Zincaloom, Ptarmigan space, Helsinki (2009) and Primavera 2009: Young Australian Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2009).
His work is held in the collection of National Gallery of Australia, QAG|GOMA, Brisbane; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Museum of Old & New Art (MONA), Hobart; Monash University of Museum of Art, Melbourne; University of New South Wales, NSW; and Auckland Art Gallery, NZ
