As part of Australian Heritage Festival 2024, Doncaster Templestowe Historical Society presents an exhibition of kitchen implements, tools and appliances used from the mid-1800s through to the early part of the 20th Century.
Bridget Hillebrand's site-specific work River draws on innovative techniques using handmade washi paper, relief printing and audio.
The works are informed by the changing ecology of the Birrarung (Yarra River), which winds its way through Manningham to Port Phillip Bay.
River (detail). Linocut on washi paper. Image courtesy of the Artist.
On in Manningham Art Gallery's Curio display window, this small exhibition of works by Anni Hagberg and Rhys Cousins extends the artists' recent exhibitions in the gallery, exploring and playing with materials in innovative and exciting ways.
The display pairs silk prints of finely detailed photographs of non-descript textures by Cousins with a collection of amorphous ceramic and mixed media objects created through experimental firings by Hagberg.
Together, the items speak to the artists' shared interest in everyday, discarded or otherwise forgotten materials and surfaces of modern urban environments and how they interact in myriad ways.
Curio is accessible at the south-eastern corner of Manningham City Square (MC Square), 687 Doncaster Road, Doncaster VIC 3108.
Join our tutor Jenny in a four week course covering an introduction to clay using hand building skills. Create your own special works to glaze and take home.
Course Dates and Times:
- Session 1: Thursday 4 March, 7.00 pm to 9:00pm
- Session 2: Thursday 11 March, 7.00 pm to 9.00pm
- Session 3: Thursday 18 March, 7.00 pm to 9.00pm
- Session 4: Thursday 25 March, 7.00 pm to 9:00pm
Materials Required
- Apron
Bookings essential. Numbers strictly limited.
COVID-19
All visitors to the Art Studios will be required to register their attendance via QR Code upon arrival and comply with current COVID-19 guidelines, including social distancing and the wearing of face masks.
For more information, please email artstudios@manningham.vic.gov.au or phone 03 9840 9382
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Manningham Art Studios
Located on Level 2 of MC Square, Manningham Art Studios delivers a range of children and adult art classes.
Join our tutor Jenny in a four-week course covering an introduction to clay using hand building skills. Create your own special works to glaze and take home.
Course dates and times:
Session 1: Monday 1 March, 10.00am to 12.00pm (noon)
Session 2: Monday 15 March, 10.00am to 12.00pm (noon)
Session 3: Monday 22 March, 10.00am to 12.00pm (noon)
Session 4: Monday 29 March, 10.00am to 12.00pm (noon)
Materials required
- Apron
Bookings are essential and numbers are strictly limited.
All visitors to the Art Studios will be required to register their attendance via QR Code upon arrival, and comply with current COVID-19 guidelines including social distancing and the wearing of face masks.
For more information, please email artstudios@manningham.vic.gov.au or phone 03 9840 9382.
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Manningham Art Studios
Located on Level 2 of MC Square, Manningham Art Studios delivers a range of children and adult art classes.
Join JamFactory ICON artist Angela Valamanesh for an engaging walk through her exhibition About being here. Learn more about the life view that informs her artistic exploration of the interconnectedness of human, animal and plant life.
Inspired by the symbiosis between science and poetry, Angela Valamanesh’s artworks elicit intrigue and a strong sense of personal investigation as she manipulates seemingly familiar anatomical, botanical, and parasitic forms in beguiling and unusual ways.
Held as part of the exhibition JamFactory ICON Angela Valamanesh: About being here, on now at Manningham Art Gallery until Saturday 17 September 2022.
Other public programs
Ceramics Workshop with Holly Phillipson
Available sessions:
- Friday 2 September, 10.30am to 1.30pm
- Saturday 3 September, 3.00pm to 6.00pm
Tickets: $40 general admission, $30 concession
Find out more and register online.
A one-off workshop exploring the use of mixed-media in painting, driven by Gidley's passion for vibrancy and colour in art. Suitable for painters of all ages and abilities.
Presented by the Doncaster Templestowe Artists Society.
Supported by Manningham Council's Community Grants Program.
Work with clay in our friendly and well equipped studio.
Join our tutor Jenny as she helps you to explore a range of different techniques. Enjoy some shared time on the pottery wheel and make your own unique pieces to glaze and keep.
Course dates and times:
Session 1: Tuesday 2 March, 6.00pm to 7.30pm
Session 2: Tuesday 9 March, 6.00pm to 7.30pm
Session 3: Tuesday 16 March, 6.00pm to 7.30pm
Session 4: Tuesday 23 March, 6.00pm to 7.30pm
Materials required
- Apron, smock or old shirt
Bookings are essential and numbers are strictly limited.
All visitors to the Art Studios and its offsite venues will be required to register their attendance via QR Code upon arrival, and comply with current COVID-19 guidelines, including social distancing and the wearing of face masks when social distancing cannot be practiced.
For more information, please email artstudios@manningham.vic.gov.au or phone 03 9840 9382.
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Manningham Art Studios
Located on Level 2 of MC Square, Manningham Art Studios delivers a range of children and adult art classes.
Learn, or refresh your skills in observational drawing, using graphite pencil and everyday objects.
Our tutor Margaret will teach you about measuring proportions, how light falls on objects, tone and mark making.
Course dates and times:
Session 1: Monday 1 March, 7.00pm to 9.00pm
Session 2: Monday 15 March, 7.00pm to 9.00pm
Session 3: Monday 22 March, 7.00pm to 9.00pm
Session 4: Monday 29 March, 7.00pm to 9.00pm
Materials required
- set of graphite sketching pencils of varying grades (e.g. 2B, 3B)
- sketch pad
Bookings are essential and numbers are strictly limited.
All visitors to the Art Studios and its offsite venues will be required to register their attendance via QR Code upon arrival, and comply with current COVID-19 guidelines, including social distancing and the wearing of face masks when social distancing cannot be practiced.
For more information, please email artstudios@manningham.vic.gov.au or phone 03 9840 9382.
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Manningham Art Studios
Located on Level 2 of MC Square, Manningham Art Studios delivers a range of children and adult art classes.
Portable Protest Pod is a live and evolving work of art by Paul Handley. The work is a platform to display protest signs that the artist has collected from around the world over the last two years. Protest signage is a low cost but effective way to deliver your message of concern as a single voice or within a community group setting.
In this workshop for secondary school-aged youth, participants will discuss the history of protest and the art of creating impactful signs and performances. They will be asked to think about their current concerns as young members of the community and how they could express themselves with a sign of protest or reflection, before creating their own poster.
Each participant will have the opportunity to include their work as part of the Portable Protest Pod installation to hang within the galleries walls as an artistic community notice board of ideas.
Bookings for this event are essential.
All visitors to the gallery will be required to register their attendance via QR Code upon arrival and comply with current COVID-19 guidelines, including social distancing and the wearing of face masks when social distancing cannot be practiced.
For more information, please contact gallery@manningham.vic.gov.au or phone 9840 9367.
Image: Paul Handley Protest signs concept sketch, 2021, ink line drawing.
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Manningham Art Gallery
Located at the entrance to MC Square, Manningham Art Gallery presents a diverse range of contemporary art exhibitions and related public programs throughout the year. See all upcoming exhibitions.
An exhibition exploring works by several exceptional emerging artists, whose practices examine our natural environment from an aerial perspective, homing in on materials and subjects often overlooked.
These artists push, capture, map and rework the everyday. Through this process, pieces of refinement and polished simplicity form, like Rhys Cousins’ Plank and Brick. Or waste materials transform into rough jewel like sculptures as seen across Anni Hagberg’s works.
A highlight of the exhibition is Wurundjeri Artist Ash Firebrace’s Possum Skin Cloak he produced in collaboration with his sister Michelle Mills.
Interwoven throughout our space, are ceramic pieces from the Manningham Art Collection. A revisiting of works old and new.
Photo: Charlie Kinross
Matthew Dunne is an artist and writer living and working in Melbourne, Australia.
The Killing Sink is a response to the deliberate killing of Wedge-Tailed Eagles in Victoria. Using the trial of Murray James Silvester, who pleaded guilty to killing over 400 eagles, as a starting point, the project traces the history of the practice, the animals killed and the geography of the crimes.
The Killing Sink acts as both a public celebration of eagles and a eulogy for what’s been taken, focusing on how we relate to the nature around us. Part true crime and part psychogeography, The Killing Sink asks what has been lost and how far have we really come?
Installation View, Manningham Art Gallery, February 2022. Photo by Matthew Dunne.
Playhouse Pantomimes are pulling some strings for their original musical
adaptation of the classic tale of ‘Pinocchio these school holidays.
Originally created by Carlo Collodi in 1883, their version tells the story of a puppet boy in
Italy with songs, audience participation and laughs for the whole family.
Presented by Playhouse Pantomimes.
In partnership with Box Hill Institute and presented by Dr Abdul Rauf (Faculty of Trades, Technology & Transport), Manningham Art Studios presents this one-off workshop introducing you to computer assisted building design.
In this workshop you'll design a small house and create a 3D image of it using the software SketchUp.
Ages 13 years and up.
Bring your own laptop - free SketchUp Make software must be downloaded in advance.
Held as part of the Manningham Art Gallery exhibition Built
Getting There
By car
Undercover parking available at MC Square. View carpark map.
By bus
Manningham Civic Centre bus stop:
Bus route 907 City to Mitcham via Doncaster Road
Bus route 902 Chelsea to Airport West
Bus route 295 Doncaster SC to The Pines SC via Templestowe
Join artist Lindy Yeates for an enjoyable walk between the sites of her Sanctuary Project and a discussion about art, life, nature and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Displayed across four sites in Warrandyte, Yeates' Sanctuary Project artworks reproduce detailed panoramic sketches of landscapes in Manningham and on Philip Island, two regions where Yeates found 'sanctuary' during the periods of lockdown.
The project invokes the historical religious concepts of sanctuary and pilgrimage by encouraging visitors to journey from artwork to artwork and find refuge or respite in their presence. It offers a form of restorative practice within nature, encouraging the viewer to re-centre, re-calibrate and remember the places and moments of sanctuary we found during 2020-21, both from COVID-19 and contemporary, fast-paced lives.
Where: Meet at St Stephen's Church, 5-7 Stiggant Street, Warrandyte. You will then walk along the Warrandyte River Reserve, stopping at two artwork locations before heading to the Warrandyte Library for the final artwork.
Cost: This is a free event but numbers are limited and registration is essential.
For more information, contact Arts Manningham on 03 9840 9382 or via gallery@maninngham.vic.gov.au.
The Sanctuary Project is an Arts Manningham FAIR project.
Image: Lindy Yeates, Currawong Bush Park, Manningham (detail), 2020, ink on paper.
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Explore how water interacts with the amazing medium of Quink. In this series of four online sessions, our tutor Craig will teach you techniques in Quink which will allow you to explore the medium and create your own Quink artworks.
Course dates and times:
Session 1: Monday 1 March, 1.00pm to 3.00pm
Session 2: Monday 15 March, 1.00pm to 3.00pm
Session 3: Monday 22 March, 1.00pm to 3.00pm
Session 4: Monday 29 March, 1.00pm to 3.00pm
Materials required
- Water colour paper 300 gsm, A4 or A3
- Brushes various sizes, pointed and flat
- Quink ink black
- A comfortable chair
- Water and small spray bottle
- Water colours
- Tissues or paper towel
Bookings are essential.
All visitors to the Art Studios will be required to register their attendance via QR Code upon arrival, and comply with current COVID-19 guidelines, including social distancing and the wearing of face masks when social distancing cannot be practiced.
For more information, please email artstudios@manningham.vic.gov.au or phone 03 9840 9382.
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Manningham Art Studios
Located on Level 2 of MC Square, Manningham Art Studios delivers a range of children and adult art classes.
Artist Paul Handley’s Pillars of Déplacement traces his journey through the migrant settlement camps of Europe to the island shores of Lesbos, variously between 2016 and 2019, a period of social and political flux for the region. Geopolitical tensions and conflict at this time in countries including Syria and Afghanistan led to the displacement of thousands of people who were forced to seek refuge in foreign lands.
Despite it being a fundamental human right to seek asylum, this flow of refugees destabilised social fabrics across multiple communities and led to a wave of resistance from governments and local communities in the areas where the refugees sought asylum.
This exhibition represents the artist’s firsthand experience of this tension through a collection of documentary images, objects and artworks that stand as symbols hope, such as his sculptures inspired by the life-jacket graveyards of Lesbos. The exhibition acts as an artistic shrine to all the displaced and lost across the globe and throughout history, spurring reflection on migration and people movement and the ramifications it has on communities and countries.
Exhibition opening
Featuring opening remarks from Manningham Mayor Cr. Andrew Conlon, as well as Paul Handley in conversation with Manningham Art Gallery curator, Davey Warnock.
When: Saturday 17 April, 2.00pm to 3.30pm.
Cost: This is a free event but places are limited.
Artist talk
Join Paul Handley for a conversation about his experiences travelling through the migrant camps of Europe and the process of translating those experiences into artworks.
When: Thursday 22 April, 11.00am to 12.00pm.
Cost: This is a free event but places are limited.
Portable Protest Pod - workshop for youth (13-18yrs)
In this workshop for secondary school-aged youth, participants will discuss the history of protest and the art of creating impactful signs and performances.
When: Saturday 1 May, 3.30pm to 5.30pm.
Cost: Tickets are $5 per person. Places are limited.
Image: Paul Handley, Pillars, 2021, wallpaper pigment print, 240 x 360cm.
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Manningham Art Gallery
Located at the entrance to MC Square, Manningham Art Gallery presents a diverse range of contemporary art exhibitions and related public programs throughout the year. See all upcoming exhibitions.
Be creative in clay with our tutor Jenny. You will be guided through the techniques needed to create fun and imaginative works to glaze and treasure for years to come.
This is a four week program starting on Saturday 6 March and running each Saturday until 27 March.
- Session 1: Saturday 6 March, 10.00 am to 11:30am
- Session 2: Saturday 13 March, 10.00 am to 11:30am
- Session 3: Saturday 20 March, 10.00 am to 11:30am
- Session 4: Saturday 27 March, 10.00 am to 11:30am
Materials Required
- Apron or smock/old shirt
Bookings essential. Numbers strictly limited.
Covid update:
All visitors to the Art Studios and its offsite venues will be required to register their attendance via QR Code upon arrival and comply with current COVID-19 guidelines, including social distancing and the wearing of face masks when social distancing cannot be practiced.
In order to keep attendance within our capacity requirements, only one adult carer should attend to register a child at the conclusion of the children’s class. Parents and carers are not permitted to wait at the studios and are requested to return at the end of the class for pick up and sign out at the specified time. Please ensure correct emergency contact details for the time of the children’s art class, are provided in the children’s enrolment forms.
For more information, please email artstudios@manningham.vic.gov.au or phone 03 9840 9382
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Manningham Art Studios
Located on Level 2 of MC Square, Manningham Art Studios delivers a range of children and adult art classes.
I Fall to Pieces brings together artworks by two Naarm-based artists, Matthew Harris and Nicholas Currie. The exhibition traverses topics of mental health and healing.
Rich and differing First Nations materials and processes are deployed along with key tenants of Western Abstraction, offering conceptual and immediate encounters with paint and form.
Matthew Harris, of mixed European and Koorie descent, debases dominant hierarchies through socially critical painting and sculpture. Nicholas Currie is an emerging artist, curator, and descendant of the Mununjali clan of Yugambeh people of Brisbane and Beaudesert.
Matthew Harris is represented by FUTURES. Nicholas Currie appears courtesy of FUTURES.
Image credit: Nicholas Currie, Big Purple, 2023, acrylic on linen, 200 x 250 cm. Courtesy of the Artist and FUTURES.
Artist Elmira Ng creates a retail space in the Gallery where ceramics is currency.
Western and Eastern symbolism merge in this exploration of culture and identity viewed through the lens of a second-generation Hong Kong Australian.
Image: Elmira holding up the base of an Op shop cup with seal-form reading 'Tongguan, Hunan, Made in China'.