ARTISTS

Aishla MANNING and Naomi O’REILLY.

DESCRIPTION

DATE

2016

RELATIONSHIPS

ARI, Collaboration

QUOTES

CONTEXTUAL NOTES

Manning + O’Reilly Artists is the collaborative practice of visual artists and curators Aishla Manning and Naomi O’Reilly.

Initiated in 2015 the duos first project was ‘the laundrie national emerging art prize’, a parody art prize that utilised collaboration to combat and critiqued the competitive undercurrents instilled in artists though institutionalised art competitions. Their name followed in the style of parody and mimicked the major sponsors of the art prize.

The duo created ‘Balloon Animals’ specifically for Boxcopy’s exhibition ‘HOMEGROUND: Brisbane Artist Run Activity, Today and Tomorrow’. ‘HOMEGROUND’ was an accumulative exhibition project, with six artist run initiative in residence at Boxcopy for one week in succession. The exhibition emphasised collaborative and speculative methods of working.

‘Ballon Animals’ combines Manning’s playful use of commonplace objects and materials that carry a sense of familiarity and banality with O’Reilly’s macro photography that engages audiences in intimate and prolonged observations of a subject through forced perspective. Together they explore themes of failure, humour, absurdity and intimacy in a recontextualised, sensory experience of the everyday.

MEDIA

Video

RELEVANT ATTRIBUTION

Kindly reproduced with full permission of Aishla MANNING and Naomi O’REILLY.

PROVENANCE

Aishla MANNING and Naomi O’REILLY collection.

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