Grace Emily Manning
Artist
About
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Grace Emily Manning
Artist
About
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Site-Specific Projects
Swanscombe Peninsula, North West Kent
Swansula Sail
Muggins
Plastic Bone
Relics of Estuarine Magic
LUNMES 2045
Swansula Quartz
Swansula
Brownfield Sister
Sum Of All It’s Past
Padstow, North Cornwall
The Plastic Age
Ghost Gear Poppets
Cetus Belly Of The Whale
Cetus
Glastonbury, Somerset
Red List Mother
Installation
Kite Spirit andThe Patchwork
Storytelling Quilt with
Sita Brahmachari
Glastonbury Macrame
Drawing
Drawings, 1Drawings, 2
Concept / Technical
Painting
Blue Nacres in MoonlightIris 1,2
Overview
Cultures
Untitleds
Moving Image
RoseTale of Pupa
White Moths
Inside Tide
Embodying Voice
Central Vessel
Patchwork Storytelling
Project
Worry Angels
The Art of Transatlantic
Inclusion
GEM Eco Studio
Props and Natural Dyes for Stage and ScreenCetus, Belly Of The Whale
Creative documentation behind the creation of Cetus in collaboration with Andrew Whittle.
Plastic, magic, the Atlantic, weaving worlds, apples and changing states.
Experimental moving image, sculptural and photography works documenting the creation of Cetus, an eight meter long sculpture of a Humpback Whale.
Walking The Whale, Trevone, Cornwall
2020
35mm film
The 31st of October is the beginning of Samhain and the start of winter, when the veil between the worlds is at its thinnest.
On this date in 2020 artists Grace Emily Manning and Andrew Whittle traveled to Padstow in Cornwall to visit Beach Guardian and begin the weaving and enchantment of Cetus. Meeting groups of young people from Wadebridge School and members of the Beach Guardian community of volunteers.
The creation of Cetus untangles the problem of plastic pollution along the ancient British coastline of North Cornwall. Through the making workshops we explore how landscape and people can become interwoven through the magic of Art.
When exploring the landscape of Trevone for the first time we discovered a blow hole. An ancient sea cave that had blown its top sitting in the middle of a field by the cliffs. Standing at the rim of a blowhole of immeasurable width, staring into the deep cavern and the sea below, we felt a connection with the blowhole of a Whale. A giant Whale at rest along the costal path.
As we wove the Whale back at Trevisker Garden Centre, the constellation of Cetus, the sea monster, rose above us each night.
We found Cetus both on land and written in the stars.
Samhain Samhain,
Let the ritual begin.
We call our sacred sea ancestors to come in.
Samhain Samhain,
The tide is high the veils thin.
We honour all that has gone before as we pull the plastic in.
Samhain, Samhain,
All nature is our kin.
Our hearts reach cross the sea of time as the Great Wheel turns again.
Cetus, The Belly Of The Whale, 2020The Belly of The Whale, 2021
An experiment in Cornish Bladderwrack Bioplastic