array of clock chimes
array of clock chimes
Ross Manning Wave Opus I 2016, modified clock chimes, heat sink, DC motors, hook-up wire, motion detector, contact microphones, and audio equipment. Photography: Sam Cranstoun. Image courtesy Milani Gallery, Brisbane.

Ross Manning

Dissonant Rhythms

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Dissonant Rhythms is Brisbane-based artist and musician Ross Manningā€™s first-ever survey exhibition. Best known for his use of everyday materials, Manningā€™s exhibition features sculptures that repurpose ceiling fans, fluorescent tubes, and overhead projectors. Propelled by electricity and their own kinetic forces, Manningā€™s work engulfs the entirety of the spaces they exist in, capturing viewers in mesmerising experiences with light and sound.

Spanning the past decade of Manningā€™s practice, Dissonant Rhythms was originally presented at the Institute of Modern Art (IMA) and has now been reconfigured to tour across Australia. Dissonant Rhythms is curated by Aileen Burns, Johan Lundh, and Madeleine King.

View Ross Manning: Dissonant Rhythms publication online

View an Artist Talk with Ross Manning, Dissonant Rhythms 2017, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane. Video courtesy of the artist and IMA, Brisbane.

 

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Ross Manning Wave Opus I 2016, modified clock chimes, heat sink, DC motors, hook-up wire, motion detector, contact microphones, and audio equipment. Photography: Sam Cranstoun. Image courtesy Milani Gallery, Brisbane.

Exhibitions

An orange, yellow and grey painting of two figure hunched over exchanging flames, by Clare Milledge
Clare Milledge
complex notophyll vine forest: ground-proof
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Marian Tubbs 'lotus eaters (wellness)' (detail) 2025, lenticular photograph. Courtesy the artist and STATION.
Marian Tubbs
I donā€™t sleep I just dream: unrefined in high definition
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Club Ate, Ex Nilalang (video still) 2017. Courtesy the artists and Art Gallery of New South Wales Club Ate
Club Ate
Ex Nilalang, episodes 1 - 4
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A room of people looking at a large projection
Marian Tubbs
And then plants are confused with stones. Rocks look like brains, stalactites like breasts, veins of iron like tapestries adorned with figures
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A white ceramic sculpture of two doll heads and a mollusc shape in between
Belinda Smith
Headstands and other feats of normal life
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A colour photo of a silouetted figure standing next to a gate in a tunnel with the sea behind them
Isaac Julien
Western Union: small boats (The leopard)
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Guy Fredericks, Bleeding hearts and Morning glory (installation). Image courtesy Studio A
Guy Fredericks with Studio A
Bleeding hearts and Morning glory
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Damian Showyin, Suede blue (installation view), Mosman Art Gallery. Photo by Jacquie Manning
Damian Showyin with Studio A
Suede blue
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Sandra Kaji Oā€™Grady 'Mixed gods' (detail) 2025, acrylic on cardboard box. Courtesy the artist
Sandra Kaji Oā€™Grady
Boding
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Narmada Smith 'Shut Up and Paint' (detail) 2023, oil on canvas. Courtesy the artist
Narmada Smith
Colour : gentle awareness
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Sarah Ujmaia 'And thank you to my baba for laying the timber floor' 2024. Photo by Christian Capurro.
Sarah Ujmaia
Marmoreum (28Ā°48ā€™34.4ā€S 153Ā°16ā€™45.6ā€E)
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Babette Robertson 'When we were in a forest, but the forest was called Parisā€™ (detail) 2025, oil and water-based pigment on canvas. Courtesy the artist.
Babette Robertson
And her hallway moves like the ocean
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Lindy Lee ā€˜The topography of rainā€™ 2022, fire, Chinese ink and rain on archival paper. Donated through the Australian Governmentā€™s Cultural Gifts Program by Lindy Lee.
Lismore Regional Gallery Permanent Collection
Recent acquisitions and restored works
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Lismore Regional Gallery acknowledges the Widjabul Wia-bal people of the Bundjalung Nation as the traditional owners of the land upon which the gallery stands. We pay respects to elders past and present, and extend that respect to all First Nations peoples and their continuing connection to land, waters, community and the arts.