Alert to both history and science, Nicholas Mangan is a multi-disciplinary artist known for interrogating narratives embedded in a diverse range of objects. With a keen interest in the processes of forming meaning from objects, culture and natural phenomena, Mangan creates unnerving drawings, montages, sculptures and installations. His work addresses a wide range of themes, including the ongoing impacts of colonialism, humanity's fraught relationship with the natural environment, contemporary consumptive cultures and the complex dynamics of the global political economy.
Read MoreMangan has exhibited extensively in Australia and internationally. His last major project, Progress in Action, was exhibited at Sutton Gallery in 2013 and later presented as part of 9th Mercosul Biennial, Brazil. Other solo exhibitions include: Some Kinds of Duration 2011, Artspace, Sydney and Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, in 2012; Let's Talk about the Weather, Y3K, Melbourne, 2011; Nauru, notes from a cretaceous world, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, 2010; Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2009; and The Colony, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, 2005.
Selected group exhibitions include: Courtesy of the artist, CNEAI, Paris, 2013; Sinking Islands, Labor, Mexico City, 2012; Before & After Science, 2010 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia; Lucky Number Seven, SITE International Biennial, SITE Santa Fe, 2008; The Shadow Cabinet, the second phase of Master Humphrey's Clock, de Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam; Adventures with Form in Space, The Fourth Balnaves Foundation Sculpture Project, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2006; Uncanny Nature, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 2006; and Primavera, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2004.
