Born and lives in Sydney, Australia. David Manley studied at the College of Fine Arts (COFA) UNSW, majoring in Photo-media and graduating in 2012 with 1st Class Honours and the Dean's Award for Academic Excellence. Manley was a finalist in the 2011, 2013 and 2015 Bowness Photography Prize and the 2014 Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award. In 2012 he was a winner of the 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 which was published in 2012. In June 2014 Manley attended the Ulsan International Photography Festival in Ulsan, South Korea as an Australian representative artist. David Manley holds a PhD in Fine Arts and in 2015 completed a Masters of Fine Arts by Research with Class 1 Honours. Solo and group exhibitions include Galerie Pompom, Verge Gallery, Sydney University, Black Eye Contemporary Photography Space, Darlinghurst, The Australian Centre for Photography, Griffith University Art Gallery, Brisbane, Customs House, Sydney, QUAD Gallery Derby, United Kingdom, Ulsan Cultural Arts Centre, Ulsan, South Korea, FORM Gallery at Midland Atelier Fremantle, Western Australia, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, Blender Gallery, Paddington and Perspektiva at COFA Space/UNSW, Paddington.
Post Traumatic Urbanist #11, 2019 Archival photographic print 1000mm x 1000mm Edition of 5
Ballardian #3, 2019 Archival photographic print 1000mm x 1250mm Edition of 5
Post Traumatic Urbanist #10, 2019 Archival photographic print 1000mm x 1000mm Edition of 5
Post Traumatic Urbanist #14, 2020 Archival photographic print 1000 x 1000mm
David Manley, Post Traumatic Urbanist #8, 2019 Archival photographic print 1000mm x 1000mm Edition of 5
David Manley, Post Traumatic Urbanist #9, 2019 Archival photographic print, 1000mm x 1000mm Edition of 5
Post Traumatic Urbanist #7, 2018 Archival photographic print, 1000mm x 1000mm Edition of 5
David Manley, Post Traumatic Urbanist #1, 2017 Archival photographic print, 500mm x 500mm Edition of 3
David Manley, Post Traumatic Urbanist #2, 2017 Archival photographic print 500mm x 500mm Edition of 5
Untitled, 2017 Archival 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 Edition of 5
New World Structure, 2016 Archival photographic print 1000 x 1250 mm
Blue Brute #1, 2016 Archival photographic print, 981.4 mm x 900 mm
Substructure, 2015 Archival photographic print, 500 x 500 mm Edition of 3
Plume 2, 2015. Archival photographic print, 250mm x 250mm
Spiral Cement Structure, 2014. Archival photographic print, 1250 x 1000 mm
Modernist Structure, 2014. 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
Street Light, 2014. Archival photographic print, 1250 x 1000 mm
Art Bunker, 2014. Archival photographic print, 1250 x 1000 mm
Blue Structures, 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
Exhaust Stack, 2011. Ink jet 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
