Community
22 November, 2024
Keeping art in the Manifold family
MOTHER and son artists Marion and Harley Manifold will be holding an open studio this weekend.
The free exhibition will be running across tomorrow (Saturday, November 23) and Sunday, November 24, with residents invited to come along and view their works.
Mr Manifold said both he and his mother were proud Camperdown residents with national status, as well as experience in the arts field.
“Dr Manifold is a well-known printmaker with a PhD and has taught in secondary and tertiary institutions, including the Deakin Koorie Institute at Geelong, adult education, and she has taken many art workshops as a volunteer over the years,” he said.
“Dr Manifold is in many national collections and has a long resume including winning the Shell Fremantle Print Prize and an Australia Council for the Arts three-month Paris residency to research Marie Antoinette.
“Dr Manifold has twice returned to Paris to continue her interest in French women and this exhibition includes new work Souvenir d’Australie - a body of work on Empress Josephine who introduced Australian flora and fauna to Europe.
“She has also completed work on her French-Swiss ancestors at Neuchatel, which will also be exhibited.”
Interest in art runs in the family, with Mr Manifold also a skilled artist and having an interesting resume like his mother.
“Mr Manifold is a renowned painter and completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Deakin University in Warrnambool and then went on to complete Honours in Fine Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts as the only non-alumni in his year,” Dr Manifold said.
“He also mentors and teaches art at the F Project, Warrnambool.
“His work in this exhibition has a nocturnal theme.
“Mr Manifold has been included in numerous national art prizes and group exhibitions.
“On three occasions he has been a finalist in the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize (2015, 2017 and 2021) as well as the Salon Des Refuses of the Archibald and Wynne Prize (2016, 2019 and 2021), and most recently the Darling Portrait Prize and the Emerging Artist Award in Sydney.”
The duo will be opening their studio, Milk Shed Studio - located at 560 Wiridgil Road, Weerite - between 10am and 4pm on Saturday and Sunday.
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