Dianne Mangan STUDIO

Ceramic artist

BIO

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…

CV

Dianne Mangan MAA, Victoria, AUSTRALIA

 

EDUCATION

2020Plaster slip casting mould-making course with Pom-me-granite’s Emma Jimson, Victoria
2019/20Several online business, marketing, digital media and social media courses
2008Lithographic Workshop – Australian Printmakers Workshop
2008Diploma of Business (RCOW) Incomplete
1997Internship – National Gallery of Victoria (6 weeks) Unit of Masters Degree – MAA
1996-97Masters Degree Art Administration – MAA, College of Fine Art, University of NSW
1994Module: Management & Organisation: Systems, Services & Survival. Regional Arts Training Program, CoFA, UNSW (credited as unit for MAA)
1989Honours Year Unit: Art Theory – Monash University – with Professor Margaret Plant (Incomplete)
1985Graduate Diploma Fine Art, Ceramics – Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
1975-77Art + Design – Ceramics – 3 years full time (undergraduate), Caulfield Institute of Technology – now Monash University

Selected group exhibitions

Painting

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
2016-21Off Centre Gallery + Studio – stock
2016Arts Space Wodonga – sites: earth + water – with Kate Gorman
2016Wangaratta Art Gallery staff exhibition – Milawa Pop Up Gallery
2015The Old Stone Hall Beechworth with Nina Machielse Hunt + Erin Davis Hartwig
2014Wodonga Art Prize – Arts Space Wodonga – finalist
2012Silver Service – WAG staff commemorating 25 years of the Gallery
2011Degrees of Abstraction: Dianne De Cerchi (Mangan), Kate Gorman + Amanda McColl – Christine Abrahams, Gallery, Richmond Vic
2010Wodonga Art Prize – Arts Space Wodonga – finalist
2009Susan Moorhead Award exhibition – Albury Art Gallery
2009‘Outskirts II’, Benalla Art Gallery
2008‘Outskirts’ – Benalla Art Gallery
2007‘‘Convergence’ – Benalla, Victoria

Ceramics

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

Solo exhibitions

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

Collections

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

 

Awards

Crafts Board of the Australia Council Grant 1983

Craft Victoria Grant 1994

 

Memberships

 

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

 

Employment – relevant

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

 

Bibliography

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.

 

Publications

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.