Queensland

Hugh Swingler Manning bought his first camera from an uncle at age ten. Photography has been a part of his life ever since. His practice has sought to explore the medium’s place in the sphere of contemporary art, focusing on ideas of identity and the isolation of the self within.

The work of Hugh Swingler Manning is concerned with ideas around identity and particularly the idea that the ‘self’ is always changing, always indefinable and always out of reach. His work is a reminder that, no matter how much you believe you know those around you, you will always be mistaken. There is no one you know completely, there is no stereotype that rings true, there are no rights or wrongs, there are only different ways of being. The point emphasized is that there is no one that can help you if you can’t help yourself.