Bed Bound showcases Rose Manning’s most recent exploration into feelings of comfort and discomfort. Domestic spaces and bedrooms have been heavily associated with rest and recuperation. The impact of being confined to these spaces for the larger part of 2020 has transformed them into safe havens from the dangers of the outer world, or have they become breeding grounds for anxieties and uncertainty? This series of soft works are the result of Manning attempting to calm these anxieties and comfort herself both mentally and physically.
Rose Manning is a visual artist practicing in Brisbane. Working in a text-based practice, she navigates her emotions as a queer woman inhabiting public and private spaces. These text pieces, coined ‘Love letters’, are written in a struggle to express vulnerability. She also explores simultaneous feelings of connection and disconnection to surrounding people and frequented spaces in her life. Through the process of painting, sewing and stitching these confessions of emotions, she seeks to be able to comfortably present emotionality and create a connection with the world that she has found herself in.
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Exhibition Dates: 24 November – 5 December
Opening Hours: 10am to 4pm, Tuesday – Saturday
Where: Project Gallery, 226 Grey Street, South Bank, 4101
