Ryan Presley newest artist at Jan Manton Art

Jan Manton is pleased to announce Ryan Presley as the most recent artist at her Brisbane-based gallery, Jan Manton Art.   ‘Presley’s outstanding artistic potential is the motivation for taking on this young artist’, said Director Jan Manton.  'I saw his series Blood Money, which won the Griffith University Graduation Show 2010, and recognised his outstanding talent'.   The decision has been vindicated with this entire series being sold, within days of its release.  The works were sold to a Melbourne private collector, the University of Queensland and the Griffith University collections. Also, this week came the announcement that Presley is the recipient of the latest round of Artstart grants from the Australia Council.  The award of $10,000 will assist Presley in acquiring equipment, renting studio space and enabling him to travel to Central Australia, the birthplace of his Father and thus providing the opportunity for him to meet his extended family. ‘This grant will give me the opportunity to meet my father’s relatives and to travel through his country’, said Presley. ‘I am looking forward to learning about my father's aboriginal heritage and I plan to do new works after this visit’.   Jan Manton Art will exhibit new works by Presley in September 2011.

Art On James St - until 9th June.

Joachim Froese - Tell him it is all a transition 14 MAY - 11 JUNE

Sage ihm, es sei alles ein Übergang - Tell him it is all a transition is a quote from the first letter my grandfather wrote in 1944 to his wife and his two young children on his way to the Eastern front during World War II. The sentence relates to his young son - my uncle - who had broken his leg and was admitted to hospital. However, I believe he had himself on his mind as well when he put the words to paper. He continued to write letters until late February 1945 when he became a Russian prisoner of war. He would never come home and he died near Moscow some time in early 1947. My grandmother continued writing to him for more than a year unaware of his death. The letters my grandfather wrote out of the war - shown in this work as origami boats - reflect a small escape from the catastrophe around him, which destroyed his and countless other lifes at the time.

My images relate further to the story of the 1000 cranes. According to this story Sadako Sasaki, a girl from Hiroshima who suffered from leukemia after exposure to radiation fallout after the atomic bomb, attempted to fold 1000 origami cranes. A Japanese legend said that anyone who would succeed to fold that number of cranes would be granted a wish. It was her wish to become healthy again but she died in 1955.  

Joachim Froese 2011.

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'Passage' Alfredo + Isabel Aquilizan

This amazing suspended work by Alfredo + Isabel Aquilizan is currently showing at Govette-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand. 
"Passage"; (The Eight Fleet)
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