Ross Manning at Carriageworks

 

Ross Manning has installed a new work at Carriageworks. 

MELODY LINES is a monumental new kinetic sculpture that will animate Carriageworks’ architecture with an ever-moving investigation into form, colour and light. Suspended from the ceiling, an intricate system of conveyor tracks of a similar type used for assembly lines and other industrial manufacture will respond to the history of Carriageworks as a site of industrial production. The overhead conveyor will weave around the space, ferrying numerous transparent coloured pendants that create an ever-shifting array of coloured light and shadows. Carriageworks’ interior is transformed into a dreamlike landscape in a perpetual state of motion and flux. An enthralling meditation on perception and the senses, Melody Lines invites us to reconsider our surroundings and bask in its astounding radiance.

Ross Manning said: “The movement of the overlapping colours both overhead and on the floor will generate colour mixing and optical effects as the conveyor paths overlap and cross in front of each other. This installation is intended to fill your entire field of vision with a constant, regular motion of balanced form and colour: the movement of colour through space.”