Ross Manning is an emerging artist who works with the most basic elements of some of the most sophisticated technology today. His Spectra series is an ongoing project exploring the aesthetic potential of the additive colour model. Additive colour mixing, and specifically the RGB (red, green, blue) colour model, is at the centre of digital image reproduction, employed in all camera, screen and projection based technologies, as well as film-based colour photography. When coloured light beams, or spectra, of different wavelengths are overlayed, the cumulative wavelength produces a new colour.
Selected exhibitions and performances
2013
Volumes, (solo) Perth Institute of Contemporary Art. WA
Sound & Vision, Counihan Gallery. VIC
Foundation’s Edge, QUT Art Museum. QLD
Bazinga, Starkwhite Gallery. Auckland, NZ
Brisbane City Council: Bernett Laneway street lighting commission
exUrban Screens, Frankston Arts Center, VIC
2012
Spectra, (solo) Milani Gallery, QLD
NEW12, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, VIC
Tetsuya Umeda < > Ross Manning, KickArts, QLD
Shakin’- The Kinetic Aesthetic, Gold Coast City Gallery, OLD
Tarrawarra Biennial 2012: Sonic Spheres, VIC
The National New Media Art Award. Finalist, Gallery of Modern Art, QLD
Volume One, Museum of Contemporary Art, NSW
Field Emissions (solo), Starkwhite Gallery, Auckland, NZ.
2011
The Melbourne Jazz Festival, VIC
The Churchie National Emerging Art Prize. 1st place, QLD
The Festival of New Primitive, Spec Space, QLD
The Plastic Arts & Rukus, both at Wandering Room, QLD
Out Hear, Footscray Art Centre, VIC
New Psychedelia, University of Queensland Art Museum, QLD
Gleaning the Cube (solo), Milani Gallery, QLD.
2010
3 songs (solo) Long Gallery, for MONA FONA, TAS
Double Refraction (solo) Lismore Regional Gallery, NSW
2009
Come Hither Noise, Fremantle Arts Centre, WA
Input Ruins, (solo) Mialni Gallery, QLD
Primavara09, Museum of Contemporary Art, NSW
Sunshine and Zincaloom (solo) Ptarmigan space, Finland.
The New Truth to Materials, Boxcopy Gallery, QLD.
The Light , Milani Gallery, QLD.
Batteries Not Included, Australian Centre for Photography, NSW.
2008
The New Fresh Cut, Institute of Modern Art, QLD.
