Curated by Alexander Boynes
In Between What Remains, David Manley and Hilary Wardhaugh reunite creatively in their hometown of Belconnen, reflecting on lives once intimately connected and now forever interwoven through friendship and shared artistic vision. This exhibition represents a poignant homecoming — two artists who walked parallel personal and professional paths now come together to present conceptually aligned bodies of work.
David’s work interrogates the psychological residue of trauma through photographic explorations of architectural models and historical sites marked by global violence. His practice unpacks the temporal disruptions inherent in trauma—how time fractures, suspends, and reconfigures itself under pressure. The affective weight of history, media saturation, and the violence of speed underpin his constructed trauma-scapes — quiet, speculative spaces where memory lingers and collapses into the present.
Hilary’s series The Disconnect also inhabits the terrain of temporal rupture, but from a post documentary urban landscape perspective. Hilary homes in disconnection and compartmentalism of our natural world in the urban landscape. Her work creates a visual language of absence, mystery, and reflection.
About the Artists
Hilary Wardhaugh was born in the UK and lives in Canberra. She is a working professional photographer and mid-career artist. In 2025, she has been a finalist in the NPPP, Olive Cotton Award, Mullins Conceptual Photography Award, the Canberra Contemporary Prize, PCP Iris Award and the Lanyon Art Prize.
David Manley was born and lives in Sydney, Australia and holds a PhD in Fine Arts. He is a four-time finalist in the Bowness Photography Prize and the 2014 Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award and winner of the Head On Photographic Portrait Prize in 2012.
Images
PTU 2 by David Manley
The Disconnect part 4 by Hilary Wardhaugh
High Rise by David Manley
The Disconnect part 2 by Hilary Wardhaugh
PTU 10 by David Manley
For more information click here
