Sentience Under the Loadstar

2008-10-19T13:40:00.000-07:00

Sentience Under the Loadstar
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

In Four Quartets T.S Elliot wrote'We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring

Will be to arrive where we started & know the place as if for the first time'

C a b i n e t

Every man or woman is not only him or herself ;

for he or she is also the unique particular, always significant and remarkable point

where the phenomena of the world intersect once and for all and never again.

' Hermann Hesse 1958

On the evocative subject of Memory John Ruskin, Sebald, Prousts and Bachalard's book

'The Poetics of Space' are both 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.

The Visit of a Golden Age ( Siglo de Oro )

Visiting tonight

I lay beside a mans dream.

There was a zoo of life within it.

Not light or fey but thick with feeling.

A girth of thought enriched by trauma.

The substance of sleep distilled into spirit

His nocturnes play out

Supine beneath a bed of sorrel

Honeysuckle lines the harvesters nest

And the earth still orbits the sun

by MM 2010

Nietzche said:

''We are both physical beings, and metaphysical - with an inner life - we exist in being, in time and in space. Science states the emotional body exists as 'corporeal' bodies—it is only harder to see and measure.

Healing is biologically driven: We cut ourselves, we clean and suture the wound.''

above;'The Angel in the house' Virginia Woolf by Mack Manning Penguin

Thoughts to a growing Daughter and Son 1685 to 2045 ( mack manning 2011)

Dearest Daughter / Son

Remember that sentience and sentiment ( not 'sentimentality') are integral qualities for any sensitive being to own and to feel. It is a feeling and a stance we grow kindly into as we age.

Feeling and realisation are ways of absorbing and distilling the myriad of emotional experiences we encounter as we live life. Commenting on them and expressing these encounters internally, orally or visually is also a way of accepting or understanding these emotions with perspective and empathy.

''Poetry is not emotion it is experience'' Rainer Maria Rilke

As we grow older we don't become de-sensitised to the importance of this depth available to us, the wonder and surprise - it is quite the opposite - we become much more attuned to the richness of our ecology and how we live among it. We live on and we accept that we have a limited period to enjoy life. When we approach the middle chapters and see ahead to the 'end of times'. We appreciate what still needs to be seen and done and revealed.

'Sentimentality' can demean deep felt sentiment and sensitive insight - and dilute that which holds rich emotion and feeling .... elation, loss or great sadness. Romanticism is still a bold value to own in our cynical and Political society.

To hold such traditional beliefs and values is far from innocent - a slant remark often directed at the term romanticism .... it is in fact rooted in a sound knowledge of the self and an appreciation for the ecology we encounter and inhabit ...and displays a faith in the power of chance and change.

Good will and brave adventure are always rewarded - and so do try to maintain that faith in youthful resistance and idealism even as you grow older and cynical - dont' ignore the dreaming !

Beware the dangers of repression, and fight it as you would oppression - and be very aware of external manipulation and control. Be your Self.

'I think anyone who falls in love with a system is dangerous, because the world doesn't comply and then you get angry at the world.' Naomi. Klein

Understand that the individuality of an independent thinking mind or people does not always gel with the polar opposite - the tidy systematic logical ordered mind. History is littered with such dialogues and conflicts. ( research the Dionysian and the Apollonian )

The world is richer for this flux and evaluation - it helps define who we are in our own minds - and what we choose to be and do - or not to do!

I for one, would certainly want a 'straight lined' thoughtful logical mind steering my daughters carriage or Aircraft safely home through a storm and that same eye operating the Scalpel blade or the knife in theatre on my back. So as well as being frustrated by the straight minded eye and their clinical efficiency, embrace them whole heartedly too - for we need each other ! and then, with mutual respect, great duets can happen ( Uniting when possible the Dionysian and the Apollonian )

The jetsam and flotsam of spontaneous and 'untidy' thought or the 'Dionysian' mind, that of the seeker, the Philosopher, Poet or the Artist, is a required 'opposition' , the questioning voice - so often reluctant to adhere to a system or a designated approach - because there are so many possible angles to view it from - one of which may be to leave it be, or subvert it.

The ebb and flo of such a make up is a often maddening for others yet a fruitful pantry of investigation, experimentation and practice with change and challenge. It can only bring reward for the adventurer and adventuress.

J.G.Ballard said; '' I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul''

We dig up and brush up our archeological discoveries - our past, in order to understand it and our root but also to reinvent it forwards - to educate ourselves and others and to recycle it onto the present and into the future.

History and awareness of the past, of the 'self', our sociology and ecology - is not indulgence or 'navel gazing' or nostalgic. Naval gazing is an excellent inner activity as it questions the mystery of the 'Self' and te human condition - of creation itself - the naval is the umbilical chord - searching for the nirvana or the source. Read 'Siddhartha' by Hesse - the story of young Buddha.

Omnipresence:

Though you and I are unique - our own ancestors and their anthropological stories - instincts, experiences are present within us - just like the colour of eyes and hair - or that you share your Father and Grandfathers hand shape. These are our 'DNA memories and Particles.

The possibilities of DNA cell Memory is an interesting branch of evolving science and thought.

That instinct and knowledge is not just stored in the brain but in the smallest particles of your body.

We inhabit the body and carry our 46 Chromosomes forwards in time. ( read Krishnamurti and Bohm and any good text on Universal Consciousness ). We inhabit our bodies for our unique time on earth and via reproduction engineer a future for the gene and the DNA .. or not.

Finding peace within your 'Self' therefore is a good project - seeking happiness and rejecting people that undermine that is a must learn lesson. Visit Eastern and Chinese philosophy - this will help you - try Yoga and Tai Chi and listen to it !

Live your life to its limits - plan a little but live in the present and BE and SEE, whilst gently embracing your heritage as you age into your own personal journey. keep us, me and your ancestors all close to hand for key moments of reflection, awareness and for pleasure, but never regret - because without your human mistakes and experiences, and being able to reflect on those encounters - you cannot become as compassionate nor as self aware. This type of inner knowledge of the Self and of others can only come from real experience.

If we are creative and take risks in our lives then we contribute - be it with a Letter, a Poem or a Painting, a charitable act or incredibly by producing and raising a daughter or son. I am proud of this approach and of you - of putting your well being ahead of lesser aspirations.

We soften as we age - soften to the acceptance of our role - as a Parent or in our working life. This empathy and acceptance allows strong and considerate self awareness and knowledge and 'seeing'

- and a greater degree of authenticity, altruism and compassion.

We also rise as we age to the challenge of a collective importance, the importance of empowering others with our own experiences and infusing others with the confidence to go on and discover their own traits, loves and makings .... and to also fight the ignorance of insularity, tyranny, false authority, chauvinism, and the unfortunate and predominantly male malaise of controlling others.

Never allow yourself to be controlled.

I will always be present here with you - even if I am not physically present or manifest.

There is always a time and being when matters will get dark or tight and anxious.

Just step back into the natural habitat - visit and live there among nature and be with trees and birds - Sea, hills and Sky - and read and think. Do this when you grow tired of the 'man made' and of the City and all the persuasive tricks, sales of the consumer machine we have constructed.

There is a Commercial and Capitalist Wall built so very high between you as a natural being and the natural world - a space and outlook that you must connect with, inhabit and embrace - a sentient place of 'Beasts and Wild free things' - both beautiful and dangerous.

Walk on the grass, Jump the wall- ( do it in your favorite shoes, Suit or Dress .. but Jump the wall none the less )

Love x

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below; Observer Commission by MM

Wedding Granada

Al-Ruck-A-Bar - The Moors sign

Midnight among

Alhambra's Garden

Granada's lyric

Sweet scented nocturne

Secures the oath

Lorca's voice beneath

The Loadstar

Wets the appetite

Conjours a thirst among

Us for more.

The circumpolars cluster

Is clear ahead tonight

The great bear,

Stella Polaris and

Ursa Minor or

Alruccabah ... the index of the sky

Fix a trajectory north by

Naked eye and

You will see

Ancestry and journeys end

Elizabeth Grant - Mack Manning 'Collaboration'

'After Europe'

Mack Manning / Elizabeth Grant work for FLUX magazine 2010

Elizabeth Grant Quay Poster series

Homage to Wifred Own 'The battle of the Sambre Canal' M.Manning 2010

The crossing of the Sambre Canal

Your somber words

With crystal voice

Like hymn and elegy.

Temporary as dawns dew -

Still out of Springs reach ....

Over English herb and heather.

Finite was your number.

Yet this printed page

Keeps autumn fire -

And hearts alight.

We morn that sick sojourn -

The crossing of the Sambre

(Ode to Wilfred Own - Killed at the Crossing of the Sambre)

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Beginings ..... 1985 - 87 Drawing, Owls, Ecology and creative writing

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 1994 lecture notes at Cambridge school of Art on 'Artists books' I promoted the idea to Printmaking 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

Post Note; In the summer of 2011 we watched Lorca's flamenco play performed in the Alhambra's medieval Open air theatre at midnight.

Lorcas theory of Duende notes ( dissertation 88)

Zoo drawing and Lithograph A1 1987 mm

Left 'Set to Fly' young Portrait of of RAF WW2 Veteran 1944.

MM Ecology Painting RCA 1990

JERWOOD DRAWING Exhibition

Above: Elizabeth Grant for The University of Derby Research publications Vermillion' and 'Tangerine' 2010 and QUAY Poster also E.Grant -Manning

Saki short stories BBC audio by MM

Above ; MM BBC Worldwide and Below; MM Cover Illustration Penguin Books

'flux' magazine manchester 09 Illustrations Mack

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

Above; John Magus Fiction; Penguin Cover Design MM

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 our own future home, Parenting and dwelling.

Print

Below;

Mack Manning 2007

PULITZER COMMISSION

M>Manning; 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

Slaley forest Hexham mm 2003

mm 1995 'Landing on a shelf of rock' Drawing DF118 series

devon 2007 mm

Haworth 2008

The mind regarded as a store of things remembered and all things FELT

:Notes

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 Nautural 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.

mm/ 08 Science Fiction Photo Essay image for the Prose in 'Greenfield Fayre'

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.

mm / 2008 'Silvie and black' from new photo essay 'The Sylvian aqueduct' from Silvus7

mm/2007 rites of passage suit

Mack Manning; Illustration for The Elton John & Bernie Taupin Song Book - Edith Piaf

mm07 'Time Machine' Bd22

mm06

mm 'Slick Spillage' 1989

mm/ 'All our Ozone' Acrylic on board 1989

mm / Ghost stories of M.R James 1993

mm / Large format print 'Gender studies at the university of life'

Gender Studies series; ' PRINT 2007 The cellar, Hare & Lino M.Manning

1. natural history series 2000 Mack Manning

Bristol UWE First Time & Being Show 2007/8

The Annual show in February 08 brought together a collection of artists and academics and their own intuitive responses to remembered and travelled habitat and Landscape.The reflective work on display ranged from Photography to Bookworks, Book Illustration, Childrens Books, Painting, Printmaking, Drawing, Collage autobiography & Prose.

MM large format print 2007

Print suite 'Time & Being 07

Quentin Blake No 1 'Kent boyhood Ink study 1950s' close up

Paolozzi - a huge influence and inspiration for me at Post Grad College

Alain de Botton new unpublished photo essay - thanks for that Alain

mack manning 'DENT' Dales sketchbook page 1998

mack manning 'Invasion' 1997

Professor Dan Fern RCA

Walks with Colour Dan Fern

sketchbooks by official Peace (war) Artist Iraq Xavier Pick

Mack Manning top / Owl life study / bottom Barn Owl life study london 1987

Dance by Munch

Munch's Alpha and Omega

Im pleased to say that the lyrical and atmospheric Illustrator Laura Carlin above is showing with us

And also Astrid Chesney below- shes showing too - which Im delighted about.

Anna Bhushan

I have been an admirer of Anna's work for some time and am delighted she is exhibiting with us at Bristol - her work has that rare quality - one that captures the magical wavelength that animals hold - and like Munch's 'Alpha and Omega' drawings - the creatures and humans occupy another plain. More here too http://www.annabhushan.com/

Astrid Chesney

Fred Manning and Parrot Sheffield 1940s

mm 89

mm/07 Haworth Moor Yorkshire

mm/07

Dan Fern 'On the Road with BASHO 3' Diptych

Professor Dan Fern is a highly respected academic and teacher and has been a strong influence on a generation of his students. The creative ethos that he, Quentin Blake, Brian Robb and their dedicated staff nurtured at the RCA IIlustration department continues today throughout many British Art schools via their ex students, many of whom are now established academics and course leaders at Universities like Bath, Bristol, Manchester, Glasgow, Derby to name just a few.

Below; M.Manning

Visit Hugh Lupton and Chris Wood's Christmas Champions "http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/worldmusic/feature_mummers.shtml''

Mummers and Guisers arise and act out your masked mime

And with Christmas so close in merry England dear

All our ancestors are nearly always present - nearly always here.

Charlie Muss(o) Manning & Fred Manning Brothers in World War One

Photo 'On Rememeberence Day Nov 11th 2007 ' mack manning for Charlie & Fred and Dad

Our relationship with places where Being and Memory marry.

Other Contributing Illustrators, Graphic Artists and academics for the show will include Richard Caldicott above, Robert Kettell. Iain Biggs from University of West England & LAND2,

Paul Gough UWE Bristol and Land2 Will Hill, Chris Draper from Ruskin Cambridge School of Art. Jane Stanton from The University of Derby, Dan Williams from Glasgow school of Art, John Woodman Elizabeth Grant, Collum Leith, Bruce Ingman, Ann Skea, Alan Young & Alain De Bottons new photo essay and Illustrators Laura Carlin, Astrid Chesney

from London to Haworth West Riding .... Top Withens, Wild Moorland ... Italian genes

Top Withens ( linked to the fictional Wuthering Heights ) on Haworth /Stanbury Moor

Landscape Boniface Musso circa 1805

The Painter John Martin was taught in Newcastle by my distant Grandfather Bonifacio Musso, an Italian Drawing Master and Fencing tutor from Piedmont & Florence - he eloped from Florence to England with his new wife Aurelia Grazzini ( then a nun ) and set up as a 'Tutor' in the then busy port of Newcastle Upon Tyne. He taught 'Fencing' and indeed draughtsmanship to John Dobson the Newcastle Architect and taught and took on the gifted young John Martin as his apprentice. Martin and Bonifacio became very close friends and travelled to join up with Boni's young son Charles Muss junior (1779-1824) in London - in an attempt to continue to make their living as Artists and also to exhibit. After much hardship they became Royal painters and enamelists for King George IV. There are several pieces in the Royal Collection by Boni's son Charles Muss. Charles Muss had a daughter, Aurelia Esther ,whom was married to Frederick Manning who was then Coroner with his father John Manning to King George's Royal Palace estate ( and then later King William and I believe Victoria)

As an aside to all this story of royal adventure and Italian heritage - The next generstion of our own Manning family moved away from London and settled in North Derbyshire and Sheffield after my Great Grandfather Percy Manning (Grandson of Muss) took us north. He had a son ( my grandfather ) Charlie Muss Manning who worked all his life as a proud Steel worker in Sheffield. My own Father Des ( Charlie ) Manning was raised outside the Steel works and then in 1943 served in the RAF during the second world war - surviving that trial - just, after being badly wounded, to go on and become an excellent teacher, amateur Artist and Father in Yorkshire - during the 1960s and 70s. ( see the book 'Tail end Charlie' by my brother Mick Manning - which tells 'Charlies' tale for children in picture book form - and tells proudly of the bravery of all WW2 airmen ) MM

Oil signed Charles Des Manning 1971

Robert Burns poetry cover book one by Charles Muss

above: Burns Cover book two by Charles Muss

Elizabeth Grant 07 ( autobiographical drawings for Hardy's Tess )

mm / Ward drawings ( DF118) 1994

mm Enzyme and Discolysis (DF118 )1994

mm 93

Do we haunt ourselves ?

In 1974 at school, aged about eight, sent out to draw,I chose to sit in what were then open fields in Haworth - see above - and I drew the short row of terraces to the left

In the year 2000 I came across this very drawing for the first time again after 25 years - but I came across it in the cellar of the very house I had drawn - the house I had bought as a home. I had no idea I had drawn the house and that I had drawn and recorded to paper my own future house unknowingly and 25 years later discovered the drawing in an old school folio of my things whilst in the bowels of that very house. Now thats real time travel indeed!

Following on from the tales of de ja vu, John Martin and Boni Musso' moorland walks and unknown shared ancestral geographies across two centuries - recent but evolving research about the possibility of DNA carrying ancestral memory heightens the possibility of memory and experience not being just our own. It is proposed that dormant memory locked within DNA is triggered and 'awakened' in ourselves by events we encounter ?

If we do indeed 'hold' the memory of this past encounter - experienced by our past family ?

Your Father or Grandmother - their fear of heights due to a War experience etc - then not just trauma and negative memory will be stored but also strong positive experiences of discovery - deep connections with certain landscapes, people or spaces - 'Impressed' into the DNA and memory. If this theory and research is proved to be correct then this theory opens up amazing possible explanations for such strong instinctual senses of place - 'de ja vu' and strong connections between people and places. MM

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'

BOY

Left 'Shadow and Loss'

M.Manning 2010

Below; M.Manning 'Fox in Landscape' from 'The Thought Fox' 2003

Mack / Mark Manning

'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 ''

Teaching has been a primary vocation since 1994 - teaching at Glasgow School of Art

The University of Derby, Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin from the age of 25.

Before returning north in 1997 to teach for ten years at the University centre Leeds Metropolitan at the Hockney Gallery and Yorkshire Crafts Centre Bradford School of Art

Now works full time at Manchester Metropolitan University in the Design department

Full time External Examiner for the BA (Hons) Graphic Design course at Bristol, University of West England and at Cambridge Anglia Ruskin School of Art and also works as a visiting external and reviewer for Chelsea School of Art and Cambridge Anglia Ruskin school of Art and University of Derby.

Awarded a Bursary Scholarship to study at the Royal College of Art for an M.A (RCA) in Visual Communication Illustration from 1988 to 1990. With work focused on Ecology and Graphic Art from his B.A Printmaking at Maidstone College of Art.

Future RCA Masters work specialised in Ecology, Sense of place, using Print, Lithography drawing and for the times, New digital media. ( see research for Canon uk 1988)

His interest in Landscape and habitat grew from his childhood in rural Northern England and studying the Kent Landscape.

Professional design work has included commissions for Friends Of the Earth, The United Nations,The Observer,The Sunday Times,The Independent,The BBC,Penguin books and many other design organisations.

He has written articles for the Independent on Design Education and developed and advised on Art & Design programmes both in the UK and Internationally at Degree and Masters level

Has 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 (Bolton

www.adm.heacademy.ac.uk › projects › ADM-HEA projects

After being awarded 'best in show' at the 1990 RCA Visual Communication MA show by Conrans Alan McDougall and Anita Roddick Manning was hired for the newly formed Bodyshop International Design team, Oxford Street to work on special external environmental design projects - a strand of the Roddick's lesser known work - more personal to them as a husband and wife team with Political and altruistic, educational projects - many low key and with The United Nations.

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 Manning says he was 'privileged' to Study with 'a host of influential Peers and staff' John Norris Wood, Christopher Frayling and Frank Whitford, Paolozzi, Dan Fern, Quentin Blake, Klimowski, David Blamey, George Hardie, Peter Brookes and Jake Tilson.

RCA class of 88-90 ( MA show catalogue page ) a good small year of 12 of us I think - how times change !

He was employed at the RCA in the Illustration department for a further two years as a researcher and Canon CLC operator continuing work with the Canon research project group with Fellows Simon Larbalestier and Richard Caldicott Dan Fern David Blamey and Jake Tilson. 1987-90 saw the very first breakthrough notions of digital 'Print' and colour phototcopying - many new creative practices were initiated by this small collective of staff, students and alumni - Illustrative aesthetics that are commonplace today - the research was very influential. Mack's own'Visual Research' work was purchased by the Whitworth Gallery, Manchester for Permanent collection after Group Shows in London, Japan and Europe.

Mack is a member of MIRIAD 'The MANCHESTER INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND INNOVATION IN ART AND DESIGN'

Manchester Met & MIRIAD Academic Staff Profile view here; http://www.artdes.mmu.ac.uk/profile/mmanning

Elizabeth Grant - Manning

Worked independently for ten years in Education and has lived and taught in Barcelona, living there as a resident and delivering embedded Creative Arts and Cultural studies for the British Council via English language seminars and lectures. Her creative work is very much associated with her experiences of travel. Much travelled she has backpacked on self initiated field trips across a variety of locations including Ulaan Batar (Mongolia) Siberia, Moscow, St Petersburg, Beijing China, Sydney, Melbourne, Rome, Paris and Florence. documented through a range of media - photography, drawing and book works. Her Artists book ‘Travelogue’ encapsulated this visual reportage work and these experiences and is held in the special book collection archive near Prague.

Elizabeth considers her commitment to travel and these wider cultural experience as an important attribute toward her own Practice and her teaching delivery and her ability to motivate aspiring students. On returning to the UK she managed, delivered and consulted on teaching methodologies for Private Schools and more specialised government funded Language Institutions in the Community - teaching International students in Leeds, Sheffield and Manchester - whilst also studying herself and achieving a First Class Honours Degree in Visual Communication from Leeds Metropolitan University@ David Hockney's Bradford School of Art.

Works as a University Lecturer at the University of Derby in Visual Communication ( Illustration ).

Cultural heroes include Charles Keeping, Wim Wenders and Werner Herzog. She is currenty working on a new book for Children and Adults and working toward a new Summer show in Cambridge and Matlock.

Certain Collaborations; Elizabeth Grant -Manning & Mark Manning

We met in 2004 and and work together on certain set collaborations and projects - but do maintain our independence Artistically and Professionally.

Ms Grant - Manning

Caving in China 2003

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Mack Mannings work is featured

in this new book from Rotovision 'Handmade Graphics' a recent history

features a full page biography and examples of Macks work

Order here or view inside http://www.amazon.co.uk/Handmade-Graphics-Anna-Wray/dp/2888930773/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1298017689&sr=1-1

A new group show is planned for the 'Time & Being' Collective - Filmic Landscapes, Creative visual responses in various media to formative experiences of Film and narrative. Contact Mack Manning by email memorycollective@yahoo.co.uk for further information.

Do feel free to Contact me for further information about the 'Time & Being work and ethos or to apply to join the collective for

future collaborations, shows and dates etc

contact ; Mack Manning email memorycollective@yahoo.co.uk

Images may not be reproduced, copied, transmitted or manipulated without the written permission of Mark Mack Manning

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.

The Magic Theatre

Sentience Under the Loadstar