John Manton
John Manton - Barndoor (2022, 75 x 50cm print on canvas)
We live in the grip of stories and storytelling. We make, shape, and share these stories with the materials we find around us; they show us ways we can and should live. With art as my toolbox, I am shaking loose the hold of the histories I’ve made and been given. I’m putting together provisional ways of playing with these histories, and with the records and materials they build on. I make art across a variety of media, including video and sound work, painting and drawing, sculpture, and photography. My works layer and braid audio and visual archival material, together with the marks made over years of drawing, the offcuts of an academic career as a historian and anthropologist, and photos from my place of origin and from my fieldwork.
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John Manton - Life or death (2022, 60 x 60 print on aluminium)
John Manton - Rotatedwall