Harley Manifold exhibited at YAVA Gallery & Arts Hub last year with a series of his urban landscapes and Yarra Valley landscapes painted on location during the first seven days of the exhibition. This collection of works sat alongside landscapes of Yarra Valley artists Agnes Szety, Christine Cafarella-Pearce and Bill Proctor. The Neighbours explored our interpretation of place as today’s urban sprawl, ease of travel and the line between suburban living and the bush become increasingly blurred.

Harley Manifold was born in Camperdown, Victoria in 1982. In 2003 he completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Deakin University in Warrnambool. He then went on to complete his Honours in Fine Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne as the only nonprevious student in his year. He has been included in numerous art prizes and group exhibitions. On three occasions he has been a finalist in Australia’s richest art prize for emerging artists, The Metro Art Award, and consecutively for the previous two prizes. He is also three-time finalist in the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize (2015, 2017 and 2019) as well as the Salon Des Refuses of the Archibald Prize (2016).