Glen Manning is a potter based at Forest Glen in the hinterland of the Sunshine Coast, QLD. His formal qualifications include a Diploma of Visual Art from the Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education (now the University of Southern Queensland) obtained in 1979 and a Master of Fine Arts from the Queensland University of Technology obtained in 2001. He experimented with a range of styles in the 1980s, helped by a period as production workshop manager at Montville Pottery, before setting up his own studio on the Sunshine Coast in 1983. After a two-year sojourn in Japan from 1987-88, where he learnt calligraphy and studied the bamboo flute, he began to explore archaic sculptural forms using a combination of coil building, carving, throwing, moulding and casting techniques. These were the subject of a profile by Glenn R. Cooke in Craft Arts International, No. 32, 1994-95. pp. 37-42. As well as exhibiting widely and particpating in a number of public commissions, he has taught in the TAFE system and conducted numerous local and regional workshops. His work may be marked with an incised 'Glen Manning'.
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