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Join exhibiting artist Gian Manik for a drawing workshop within ACCA’s current exhibition, Like a Wheel that Turns: The 2022 Macfarlane Commissions. Gian will lead a series of exercises and an open session of drawing, encouraging reflections on the works in the exhibition, and on each other within the space.
Pencils, paper and drawing boards provided.
Gian Manik’s practice is defined by an ongoing investigation into the boundaries of representation. Previously, the artist staged reflective and malleable materials – such as tin foil – to mirror environments, which he then documents and faithfully reproduces as non-representational paintings. More recently, Manik has broadened this approach by entwining abstraction with figuration.
Manik’s paint application fluctuates between delicate and sumptuously excessive as he combines preparatory sketches with assured and adept brushwork. References from the fabric of his daily life contend with gestural passages to form a palimpsest of representation and memory. These layering techniques provide visual texture and energy to the artworks while adding depth and weight to his complex review of representation. Nostalgic, melancholic and facetious, Manik’s works vibrate with emotional and compositional intensity.
Manik completed a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) at Curtin University, Perth, in 2007, and a Master of Fine Art, Monash University, Melbourne, in 2012. Manik has undertaken a number of residencies including at Spinifex Hill Studios, South Headland, 2017; The Gunnery, Artspace, Sydney, 2009; Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth, 2009; Curtin University of Technology, Perth, 2008; and Centre for Interdisciplinary Arts, Perth, 2008. He is currently completing a residency with Bundanon, Illaroo, 2022.
