Manda Lane

'Cohabitation'
Aluminium, and galvanised steel

My installation for Melbourne Design Week, at 47 Easey Street/ for their group exhibition 'Remnants and Resonances'. Artists were invited to create new works from building remnants from the site.

This work was from an old roller door removed from the site, with the original graff preserved on the back of it.

The show runs from May 15th, at 47 Easey Street (enter via Budd Street), 12 to 5pm:
Thu 15 May
Fri 16 May
Sat 17 May
Thu 22 May
Fri 23 May
Sat 24 May

Melbourne Design Week is supported by and

47 Easey Street and Bar Studio
Remnants & Resonances exhibition.
Melbourne Design Week

🗓 15th to 24th May (Thurs to Saturdays).
📍 Bar Studio/47 Easey Street Collingwood.
(Link in bio for more exhibition details).



For this exhibition, artists were invited to create new artworks from remnants of building materials sourced from the 47 Easey Street site (which was developed by and launched in 2024 to become the headquarters of Bar Studio and a broader creative hub).

'Remnants and Resonances' includes work from
47 Easey Street, Alchemy Orange, Alex Earl, Diego Faivre, DREZ, Elise Cakebread, Geoff Nees, Georgia Stevenson, Jason Parker, Ling, Lisa Waup, Loose Leaf, Manda Lane, Revival Projects, Robert Bridgewater and Stewart Russell.

I'm looking forward to sharing a series of works that I have created in response to this brief, including moving between paper and aluminium for it.

This piece, titled 'They made plans to flourish' is an intricate papercut bouquet, handcut from leftover plan-prints from the 47 Easey Street development. Nature and architecture can occur in dialogue with each other, but here I see them melding together to form their own shared tune.

Swipe and zoom in to see some favourite sections, including references to Easey Street and Sackville Street.

One week until this series of workshops with Bendigo Art Gallery ❤️

Whenever I've created gallery installations with handcut paper, I've found a lot of personal joy in reusing the work as pasteups on the street, where they take on a whole new life and direct interaction with the environment.

This is a few from last weekend in Geelong, featuring papercuts from my 2023 installation 'Patience' at Off The Kerb Gallery in Collingwood ( ). Swipe for original papercuts in situ.

The paper featured trailing 'morning glory' leaves - a plant that features prominently around Collingwood including within the gallery courtyard.

It's been awhile since I've given this page some love.

'She'll grow wildflowers'

Handcut papercut, 310gsm cotton paper, archival glue, framed in acrylic and aluminium frame.
30cm x 30cm x 7cm
Framing by Arten

Created for Outré Gallery 's show Locals, running from 21st Feb to 16th March at their Fitzroy gallery, looking forward to this show ❤️

'The Pendulum'.

Currently hanging at SOL Gallery ( ), 420 Brunswick Street Fitzroy, with opening drinks this Thursday alongside exhibitions by and at the same place .

The Pendulum is an ethereal paper installation that features tropical foliage, hand-illustrated and cut from local fine-art printing offcuts. Extending the monstera foliage from my last installation 'Patience', this work was also inspired by the instructional monstera chandelier tutorials by Loose Leaf.

This work looks at the suspended state of our environment, and the ways in which human activities are currently influencing our planet to increasingly swing from one weather extreme to another. The delicate and still depiction of fragile botanicals hanging in a state of rest presents nature in its ideal state, hanging peacefully, protected from external influences. Yet outside, the environmental pendulum swings.