Between What Remains

Overview

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.

"Between What Remains" is not only an artistic reunion — it uses the cathartic power of image-making in a world marked by the human cost of disconnection, ambivalence and disruption.