Dianne Mangan is an experienced Australian ceramic artist. Her work over many years reflects an intuitive and unique sensibility demonstrated in one-off contemporary sculptural works, pot forms and functional ceramic items.
Utilising porcelain clays, stoneware and other clays (occasionally terracotta) she employs wheel-throwing, coil-building, and sculptural processes in developing works that feature expression, form and surface.
In creating her contemporary works she is mindful of the stimulus of the world history of ceramics, innovative approaches and intuitively leans towards the formal art elements of line, shape, form, surface, texture, colour, space, mass and movement. She is aware during her hands-on-making of an emotional response to clay which is highly expressive and responsive.
Dianne exhibited her ceramic works extensively in her early career and more recently in a solo (2019) and via group exhibitions. Her work is included in the permanent collections of Parliament House Canberra – ACT; Powerhouse Museum Sydney – MAAS; Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, Launceston; and other public and private collections in Australia and abroad.
Dianne attended Caulfield Institute of Technology full-time for three years studying Art & Design with a Ceramics major from 1975-1977; she attended RMIT completing a Post Graduate year in Fine Art – Ceramics in 1985; and she undertook and completed a Masters Degree of Art Administration at CoFA UNSW in 1996/7.
She maintains her ceramics practice with a creative passion that explores new and previously created forms and expressions in clay and is of the belief that with a regular work practice that intuition, expression and ideas keep flowing…
Dianne Mangan MAA, Victoria, AUSTRALIA
2020 | Plaster slip casting mould-making course with Pom-me-granite’s Emma Jimson, Victoria |
2019/20 | Several online business, marketing, digital media and social media courses |
2008 | Lithographic Workshop – Australian Printmakers Workshop |
2008 | Diploma of Business (RCOW) Incomplete |
1997 | Internship – National Gallery of Victoria (6 weeks) Unit of Masters Degree – MAA |
1996-97 | Masters Degree Art Administration – MAA, College of Fine Art, University of NSW |
1994 | Module: Management & Organisation: Systems, Services & Survival. Regional Arts Training Program, CoFA, UNSW (credited as unit for MAA) |
1989 | Honours Year Unit: Art Theory – Monash University – with Professor Margaret Plant (Incomplete) |
1985 | Graduate Diploma Fine Art, Ceramics – Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology |
1975-77 | Art + Design – Ceramics – 3 years full time (undergraduate), Caulfield Institute of Technology – now Monash University |
2021 | 1000 Vases – Installed 4 – 10 Sept 2021 during Milan Design Week at Superstudio Piu, Milan, Italy |
2020 | 1000 Vases – Installed 3 – 6 Sept 2020 during Paris Design Week at Galerie Joseph, Marais, Paris, France |
2016-21 | Off Centre Gallery + Studio – stock |
2016 | Arts Space Wodonga – sites: earth + water – with Kate Gorman |
2016 | Wangaratta Art Gallery staff exhibition – Milawa Pop Up Gallery |
2015 | The Old Stone Hall Beechworth with Nina Machielse Hunt + Erin Davis Hartwig |
2014 | Wodonga Art Prize – Arts Space Wodonga – finalist |
2012 | Silver Service – WAG staff commemorating 25 years of the Gallery |
2011 | Degrees of Abstraction: Dianne De Cerchi (Mangan), Kate Gorman + Amanda McColl – Christine Abrahams, Gallery, Richmond Vic |
2010 | Wodonga Art Prize – Arts Space Wodonga – finalist |
2009 | Susan Moorhead Award exhibition – Albury Art Gallery |
2009 | ‘Outskirts II’, Benalla Art Gallery |
2008 | ‘Outskirts’ – Benalla Art Gallery |
2007 | ‘‘Convergence’ – Benalla, Victoria |
2021-22 | Clay Dynasty – Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. Australian ceramic works from the collection. |
2021 | Beechworth Contemporary Art Space – Spring and Summer collection exhibitions |
2019 | The Victorian Ceramics Award – Manningham City Gallery – finalist. |
2016-20 | Off Centre Gallery + Studio – stock display |
1995 | Contemporary Works: Artworkers’ Gallery |
1994 | The Dinner Party: Zinc House Gallery |
1993 | Artworkers’ Gallery |
1992 | Gina Losch & Di Mangan: Nth East Victoria |
1986 | Hargreaves Street Gallery, Castlemaine |
1985 | Devise Gallery: South Melbourne |
Regional Review: Westpac Gallery Melbourne | |
The Big Pot Show: Distlefink Gallery | |
1984 | The Delicate Touch II, Narek Galleries, ACT |
Devise Gallery: South Melbourne group exhibition | |
Australian Craftworks Sydney: With Jaishree Sarisvasan | |
Potters Cottage Prize exhibition finalist: Eltham | |
1983 | December Diversions: Devise Gallery – South Melbourne |
Women Potters and Printmakers, Golden Age Galleries, Ballarat | |
1982 | Diamond Valley International Art Award Finalist |
1981 | Porcelain: Three Interpretations – Walker Ceramics Gallery |
1979 | Gallery 180: South Melbourne – with Jan Mair |
1978 | Peninsula Painters and Potters – Mornington Peninsula Regional Art Gallery |
Four Young Potters: Mornington Print Gallery | |
1977 | Walker Ceramics Award: Caulfield Arts Centre |
Gryphon Gallery: Melbourne Teachers College | |
AMP Gallery, Melbourne | |
1976 | Georges Gallery, Melbourne |
2019 | Elementals: Dianne Mangan recent paintings + ceramics. Wangaratta Art Gallery in WPAC foyer |
2010 | The Muse Gallery of Milawa – North East Victoria |
1984 | Australian Craftworks Gallery – Sydney |
1983 | The Potters Gallery: Darlinghurst, Sydney |
1978 | Mornington Art Gallery |
The New Parliament House Collection ACT
Powerhouse Museum Collection, Sydney
Queen Victoria Museum Collection, Launceston TAS
Canberra School of Art Collection, ACT
R L Cope Ceramics Collection, Sydney (devolved to Queen Vic Museum)
Ken Hood Ceramics Collection – now dispersed
Monash University Collection (CIT)
Private collections in Australia, Japan, USA, Sweden
Crafts Board of the Australia Council Grant 1983
Craft Victoria Grant 1994
Craft Victoria Accredited Member 2016-current
The Australian Ceramics Association (TACA) Member 2018- current
Board Member PGAV 2000 – 2004 & 2012-15
ICOM member: 2009, 2010, 2012
Committee member VFLAA @ NGV 2008-2011
Board Member – Wangaratta Festival of Jazz and Blues 2005-2008
Board Member Cultural Tourism Industry Group, 2005-2008
Vice President of the Public Galleries Association of Victoria (PGAV), 2000 – 2004
Marketing Sub-committee member PGAV, 2002-2004
Regional Arts Fund Assessment Panel Member, Federally devolved fund managed by Regional Arts Victoria, 2002-04
Museums Australia (Victoria) Member + VACSIG member, 1998-2011
PGAV member, 1998-2016
NAVA member
Dianne Mangan Studio – Ceramics studio business 2020 – current Owner Operator
Off centre gallery + studio – Online only 2020 – current Owner Operator/Director
Off centre gallery + studio 2016 -2020 Owner Operator/Director
Gallery Director – Wangaratta Art Gallery – 18.5 years
Manager Cultural Services RCOW 2002 – 2009/10
Co-Director – Artworkers Gallery (NE VIC)
Gallery Assistant – Devise Gallery South Melbourne
Mornington Craft Centre – Ceramics Tutor
Self Employed Ceramic Artist & Tutor – Off Centre Ceramics
Arts Space Wodonga website + FB Page
Muse Gallery of Milawa website 2010
Canberra Times, Peter Haynes. 1984
Pottery in Australia. 1085. Vol. 24. No. 4. Dec. 1985, Peter Haynes, Curator, Canberra School of Art Collection.
Craft Victoria, 1984. Oct 4. P11.
Sunday Telegraph, Sydney, 1983. May 15, 1983, p124, Nadine Amadio
Pottery in Australia, 1983, Vol. 22. No. 2. Nov/Dec 1983, John Wade, Curator of Ceramics, Power House Museum, Sydney
Craft Victoria, 1981, Oct. 1981. P3.
Catalogues & Room Brochures – exhibitions & contributions over entire career
Social Media Design + Content & implementation of articles, etc
Articles – artist’s work, Art Almanac, TFF, DUT : (Down Under Textiles)
Dissertation – On Post Modernism vs Modernism 1986 (Post Graduate)
Research papers – On Australian Ceramics – MAA
Catalogues: work closely with designer with regard to content and artistic direction
Invitations –design input/direction re exhibitions over entire career
Marketing + Marketing Material – Off Centre Ceramics; Devise Gallery, Artworkers’, WAG, Off Centre Gallery + Studio, Dianne Mangan Studio, includes publications, invitations, advertising, newsletters, FB + Instagram where relevant. In consultation with artists, partners, staff, and graphic & design contractors in several instances.
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