Event Free Range 5: Green Terry Manning, Ian Wadley, and Skylar Sansome

Free Range 5: Green Terry Manning, Ian Wadley, and Skylar Sansome

23 April 2026
6–9pm

  • Location:
    Ground Floor Gallery
  • Event Cost:
    Pay What You Can
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Free Range sounds, sunny-side up. The return of our Thursday-night sound club.

Green Terry Manning: A hot new Yeronga trio from the stitched-together sound heads of Tim Green, Amanda Terry, and Ross Manning. Bringing to the table a rich legacy of improvised sound on percussion, violin, and sound sculptures, these kinetic primitives speak in close-mic tongues—the tactile language of small objects, scrapes, taps, and micro signals. Universal consciousness of the everyday—no translator required.

Ian Wadley: Since the early 1980s, Ian Wadley has been a key player in an honour roll of great Meanjin/Brisbane (and beyond) bands, including Dum Dums, Closesthing, Holy Ghosts, Gobble Gobble, Minimum Chips, Small World Experience, The Lost Domain, Caroline No, and Mad Nanna. His string extrapolations are a labyrinthine system slowly branching off the main flow to the outer reaches of nowhere. Free range indeed! Sit back and get lost.

Skylar Sansome: Twelve months have passed since a chosen few inhaled the exquisite song puff of Skylar Sansome’s duo with Isla Scott (Beagle Vortex) in the IMA screening room. Their set divided the scene into those who were and weren’t there. The ‘there’ crew now do the Beagle handshake, exchange knowing glances at the Cave Inn, and surreptitiously pass each other the one true memory stick of the live recording. Which is to say: don’t miss Skylar Sansome solo. It will be an assemblage of sculptural percussive flotsam where the nearly-struck object holds as much weight as the ringing tone. Percussive sounds that flow like a river. Mirror in a mirror.

Doors at 6pm.

The Institute of Modern Art acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land upon which the IMA now stands, the Jagera, Yuggera, Yugarapul, and Turrbal people. We offer our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the first artists of this country. In the spirit of allyship, the IMA will continue to work with First Nations people to celebrate, support, and present their immense past, present, and future contribution to artistic practice and cultural expression.

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