Grace Emily Manning

Grace Emily Manning is an artist who grew up in the suburbs of London, on the border of Kent along the Thames Estuary. She creates multimedia projects that respond directly to landscape and place, drawing inspiration from the ecology, history, folklore, and materials of each site. This site-specific practice has led her on a journey into nature-based materialism; making natural dyes, inks, pigments, and sculptures from locally sourced materials. Her work explores environmental themes and speculative sci-fi ideas for futures where humans live in true collaboration with nature.

Grace regularly works with communities to co-create large-scale public artworks across the UK, deepening her relationship with this island, its people, and its natural world.