Home - concept -- root - exhibition 2007 UWE
In 1985 -87 Whilst studying Fine Art Printmaking & Drawing at Maidstone school of Art
I submitted young 'super-natural' ecological short stories and poems for my dissertation with an accompanying essay - the essay was on the spirit of northern european Landscape and its relationship with Lorcas spanish theory of Duende - the work of Munch, Casper David Friedrich and our own Yorkshire Poet Ted Hughes and the Irish Poets Yeats and Heaney) and also oddly the American 'Landscape' Paintings of Pollock, Rothko and Richard Diebenkorn.
'Duende' is a concept we have no singular word for in the English language. ( Lorca defines the duende 'el duende de que hablo' as 'oscuro y estremecido') The word has magical dark and melancholic roots but also celebrates Life and growth.
In my early teaching, from 1994 lecture notes at Cambridge school of Art lecture i delivered on 'Artists books' I promoted the idea to students that by making personal autobiographical work and placing it into a new context we have the creative capacity to reveal layers of memory and to transform and recycle past experience for others - stories for childrens and narratives for all ages - to pass on historical experience, opinion and tales''
Lorcas's concept of 'Duende' suggests a dark resonance and beauty - a state of connectivity and consciousness . In German to have 'Einfühlung' is a similar linguistic encapsulation of Duende. Goethe, defined Duende in the music and playing of Paganini, saying: "mysterious power that we all feel and no philosopher explains." Whilst this 'feeling' is often translated as a 'passionate' and dark force it is an articulate attempt by Lorca to encapsulate the transient reception of evocation - an intangible and elusive transmission from the elements and our empathy with it as artists - how we listen and absorb the 'sounds' from the earth and in essence how we - like a conduit - receive and portray it. MM 2006
Lorcas theory of Duende notes ; first dissertation
Notes; HOME is a place where precious objects are kept and where our heart was or is - with or without Materfamilias and Paterfamilias it is where we are raised and the 'home' is a concept we evolve toward as an aspiration - towards our own future home, Parenting and dwelling.
As Human Beings we are receptive to the most abstract of visual Images just as we relate with sound and music. In any 'outdoor' context, light, form and colour create atmospheric nuances and prompt our senses, emotions, memories and experiences - these are complex optical and neurological processes but are also much too free and elusive to be trapped by Scientific theory or language alone
As sentient individuals we carry unique experience and bring personal knowledge, feelings and bias to the images, paintings and photography we view. Yet it is often a subconscious recognition or sensation, a kind of de ja vu. This frequency of awareness has a rogue antenna and an elusive reception. Yet for this magical reception to transmit and be sensed by the viewer the empathy switch inside our own
heads has to be turned on - and in this digital age this subtle reception is sadly, for many, on standby or 'out of tune - Or perhaps 'Out of Time' .... indeed Time and 'Being' has to be spent in order for the passage
to occur MM 2007
Our creative capacity to reproduce threads of memory and to transform and recycle experience.
To recall & revisit a previous state or condition after having been altered, moved or deformed by its affects.
Our Natural habitat and our ability to empathise in it / with it from the view of the outsider(to have 'Einfühlung') to have 'feeling into' and to project our emotion into the landscape as well as receive from it
To occupy ones own natural external environment, natural surroundings, our home, domain, our haunts - to observe from the inside out.
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Panacea ; self expression ameliorates effects of harmful social and psychological environments
All Work by MM from ' Into the Lap of the Land series 2006 - 12
Pen Drawing ' We stood at the Lip '
Large prints ' 2007 - 2012 by m.manning
"I slept, I slept —,
from a deep dream have I awoken: —
the world is deep,
and deeper than the day has thought.
Deep is its pain —,
joy — deeper still than heartache.
Pain says: Pass away!
But all joy
seeks eternity —,
— seeks deep, deep eternity!"
from Friedrich Nietzsche's Also sprach Zarathustra: "Midnight Song
Notes:
Sentience Under the Loadstar
Subjective and Collective memory.
notes; Triggers for primitive automatic drawing / writing is of course a scrambled reception of eclectic primary sources - from subliminal or observed experiences - phenomena - or from less tangible 'neomena' - there is less intent but years of downloaded recordings ''will out'' - meaning they 'will be expressed' out via expression.
When this does not occur - or repression has occured then mind & body can distort - compensate and then encounter forms of break down
This process merges cloudy experiential knowledge with the impressions made on the infant cortex by the first colour palettes we encounter and from the 1960s flickering Cathode Ray - and this primary knowledge may have far more orchestration of the hand- eye relationship than is acknowledged - and a deeper influence than the more 'Learned' or received influences of say Literature, Poetry, Natural History, Field recordings or music. Schooling.
Print 'Angels in the house' ( WOOLF above 2006 ) mm
Print: 'Limen - and so we stood at the Lip - arm around Hip' 2010
Print: 'Limen - and so we stood at the Lip - arm around Hip' 2010
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Early Works: Time & Being - Sense of Place
Bookworks MM In the Collection of Book Arts Brno Prague Czech:
On the evocative subject of Memory John Ruskin, Sebald, Prousts Swans Way and Bachalard's book 'The Poetics of Space' are often referenced as seminal texts by Visual Artists to give their works literate and poetic context. Of our Contemporary writers on the human condition the great
John Berger writes the most warmly.Yet Visual Language, like sense instinct and music is arguably
the more emotive conduit for the evocation of memory and experience' than the written word.mm 2006
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Zoo drawing and Lithograph A1
MM Ecology Painting RCA 1990
Cover Illustration Penguin Books mm
Haworth 'Bronte' PRINT 2009 M.Manning
Mack Manning; PAN Book Jackets above; for Robert Louis Stevenson ' travelogue in the south sea islands. Below; Irish Detective Short Stories Flan O Brien
Notes; HOME is a place where precious objects are kept and where our heart was or is - with or without Materfamilias and Paterfamilias it is where we are raised and the 'home' is a concept we evolve toward as an aspiration - towards our own future home, Parenting and dwelling.
Above; John Magus Fiction; Penguin Cover Design MM
PULITZER
Prize
Prize
Book Cover by MM for Vietnam War tales by Pullitzer Prize author Olen Butler.
Butlers writing is highly evocative of Landcsape and sense of Place;
Below;bottom/ BBC Audio cover, The Ghost Stories by James
'Whistle and I'll come to you' M.Manning 1995
The mind regarded as a store of things remembered and all things FELT
MILL TOWN ELEGY - extract
'Greenfield Fayre
For us there then,
The flagged alley held - Warm embrace.
Timeless in our youth.
And such it seemed that
The whole firmament
Slid by oblivious
To our future state.
A heaven to taste as
Palettes mature.
'Silvie and black' from essay
'The Sylvian aqueduct' Silvus7
M.Manning; Illustration for The Elton John & Bernie Taupin Song Book - Edith Piaf
mm2007 'Time Machine' Bd22 Tales from the Riding
mm 'Slick Spillage' 1989
mm/ 'All our Ozone' Acrylic on board 1989
mm / Large format print 'Gender studies
Charlie Muss(o) Manning & Fred Manning Brothers in World War One
TS Eliot said; ''We shall not cease from exploration - And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started - And know the place for the first time ( Four Quartets )
below Munch's 'dance of life'
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Manchester Met University delivers a unique B.A degree Creative Practice in Fine Arts and Design Practices
'Influences; 'I Recognise the direct influence and inspiration absorbed from my own native landscape 'The West Riding' ( an often mythologised landscape ) and how that was later juxtaposed with my ten years as a Professional Creative in North and South London ''
completed valuable academic research work for Alison Crowe at the ADM research Centre in Brighton
in Student experience and expectations
The 3E's Project – student expectations, experiences and ...John Woodman (Cumbria), Mark Manning (MMU), Barbara Thomas (Boltonwww.adm.heacademy.ac.uk › projects › ADM-HEA projects
Other collaborations include work for The Green Party, The Labour party via The RCA Marketing dept, Fitch RS, Pan Macmillan, New Scientist, Random House, Bloomsbury, Bloodaxe, Wolf Ollins, Fitch, Adison, Sampson Tyrell, Pentagram, Simon Esterson & Mike Lackersteen and Angus Hyland.
At the RCA I was privileged to Study with 'a host of influential Peers and staff.
MM work featured
in this new book from Rotovision http://www.amazon.co.uk/Handmade-Graphics-Anna-Wray/dp/2888930773/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1298017689&sr=1-1
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