Carriageworks and Performance Space present a new large-scale installation by leading Brisbane-based sculptor and media artist Ross Manning titled Melody Lines as part of the Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art. Presented free to the public from 20 October until 6 November 2016, Manning’s work will weave through Carriageworks’ public space like a multi-dimensional drawing, carrying a stream of objects that split and refract light into many-hued colours and spectra.

ROSS MANNING: 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.