Jan Manton Gallery is pleased to present DISSEVER by Miles Hall, our latest online exhibition showing from 13 September. Hall’s paper works capture the process of combining graphite pigment with an oil binder to create gestural qualities and forms. Each piece has been torn into two seperate pieces and is then recombined on the opposite side to reveal its tear.
“These works question the distinction between drawing and painting aiming to blur the boundaries habitually made between the two techniques,” states Hall in an exhibition essay by Jonathan McBurnie from Perc Tucker Regional Gallery in 2022. “This process allows me to create a physical encounter between colour and gesture where drawing and painting function as one.”
Montpellier based Miles Hall has held solo exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Paris and Krakow. He has a Doctor of Philosophy from the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University (2010), a Diplôme National Supérieur d’Expression Plastique (DNSEP) Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Montpellier, France (2005), a Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting Major) from the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University (1997). He is currently a lecturer in Painting at l’Ecole Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Montpellier Contemporain MO. CO. ESBA.
