Born and lives in Sydney, Australia. David Manley studied at the University of New South Wales Art and Design majoring in photo-media and graduating in 2012 with 1st Class Honours. He holds a PhD in Fine Arts and in 2015 completed a Masters of Fine Arts by Research. He was also a finalist in the 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2022 Bowness Photography Prize and the 2014 Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award. In 2012 he was a winner of the coveted Head On Photographic Portrait Prize. Manley was also one of sixteen Australian artists selected for the publication Hijacked III Contemporary Photography from Australia and the UK. His work has been published in a number of journals and publication including Deep Ends The JG Ballard Anthology, 2016 and 2019 and his work Ambivalent Structures was published by Emblem Books in 2014.
Spiral Cement Structure, 2015, archival photographic print, 1250 x 1000 mm, edition of 3
Blue Structures, 2014, archival photographic print, 1250 x 1000 mm, edition of 3
Post-traumatic Urbanist #10, 2019, archival inkjet print, 100 x 100 cm, edition of 5
Brutal Stairs, 2021, archival inkjet print, 72.5 x 50 cm, edition of 5
Rooftop Car Park - Circle Work, 2021, archival photographic print, 72.5 x 50 cm, edition of 5
Art Bunker, 2014, archival inkjet print, 125 x 100 cm, edition of 3
Exhaust Stack,2010, archival inkjet print, 50 x 50cm, edition of 5
Substructure, 2013, archival inkjet print, 100 x 100 cm, edition of 5
Bowness Photography Prize
Post Traumatic Urbanist #9, 2019, archival photographic print, 100 x 100cm, edition of 5
Post Traumatic Urbanist #7, 2018, archival photographic print, 100 x 100cm, edition of 5
Post Traumatic Urbanist #1, 2017, Archival photographic print, 500mm x 500mm
David Manley, Post Traumatic Urbanist #2, 2017, Archival photographic print 500mm x 500mm
Untitled, 2017Archival photographic print, 420 x 550mm
Decelerative Architecture, 2018, Archival photographic print, 1250 x 1000mm
Sirius -1.46, 2017, Archival photographic print, 500 mm x 500 mm
Blue Brute #1, 2016, archival photographic print, 981.4 mm x 900 mm
Plume 2, 2015, archival photographic print, 250mm x 250mm
Modernist Structure, 2016, archival photographic print, 1250 x 1000 mm
Ballardian 1 and 2, 2014, archival photographic prints, 920 x 1250 mm each
Blockbuster, 2015. Archival photographic print 1250 x 1000 mm
Block, 2013.Archival photographic print, 240 x 240 mm
Zoomorphic Cement Structure, 2013
Archival photographic print, 1250 x 1000 mm
Background Noise 1, 2012. Archival photographic print, 240 x 240 mm
Forest, 2013. Archival photographic print, 150 x 150 mm
Background Noise 6, 2012. Archival photographic print, 800 x 800 mm
Grey Cement Shaft, 2012. Archival photographic print, 240 x 240 mm
Background Noise 8, 2011. Archival photographic print, 800 x 800 mm
Black Eye Gallery, September 2014. Installation view
Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Hijacked III Installation view
