Grace Emily Manning
Artist
About
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Grace Emily Manning
Artist
About
︎
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 ScreenRelics of Esturaine Magic
A fictional museum of magic artefacts excavated from the fantasy land of Swansula. Relics of Estuarine Magic is a speculative archive of ritual objects from the future found along the Thames Estuary.
REM 13 Drawing of Amulet, 2021
Pencil on cartridge paper
Pencil on cartridge paper
Bargehouse Gallery, Southbank, London
Sailing The Veils - Swansula Ritual Sailing Barge 2021
53 x 77 x 90 cm
Found plastic, bullrush, flint, sea grass root, deer bone, duck feather, hawthorn, blackberry thorn, rose thorn and hip, dogwood, thistle, recycled aluminum, copper and cotton, algae and bladderwrack seaweed bioplastic
Relics of Estuarine Magic, 2021
Fictional Digital Museum Archive, hosted on website swansula.site
Fictional Digital Museum Archive, hosted on website swansula.site
Original Artwork for digital background, 2020
Graphite Pencil
Collection Number
S.R/0.4
Object Name
Anemoi Mundi Poppet
on Element Brick
Object Type
Spiritual Navigation and Guidance, Divination
Size
26, 25, 12
Materials
Plastic, steel nail,
seaweed, wax, bone, copper, brass, iron, rose fibre, glass, roots.
Physical Description
Poppet sat on plastic Element Brick; four circular turrets marking earth, air, fire and water.
S.R/0.4
Object Name
Anemoi Mundi Poppet
on Element Brick
Object Type
Spiritual Navigation and Guidance, Divination
Size
26, 25, 12
Materials
Plastic, steel nail,
seaweed, wax, bone, copper, brass, iron, rose fibre, glass, roots.
Physical Description
Poppet sat on plastic Element Brick; four circular turrets marking earth, air, fire and water.
Use and Meaning
For independent meditation, joined with Swansula Compass to empower spiritual navigation.
Poppet covers eyes signifying openness to guidance by the elements and travel through the mind. Sitting between the four elements signifying position in the crossroads, the bridge between the worlds.
Figure represents wind deity, universal soul, dual mother, mercurial goddess with wing feathers in colours the four elements.
Sat before black seaweed candle for uncrossing and protection, housed in a copper mask; the self projected to the world in front. Removable pins can be lifting when drawn towards and connecting to particular forces.
For independent meditation, joined with Swansula Compass to empower spiritual navigation.
Poppet covers eyes signifying openness to guidance by the elements and travel through the mind. Sitting between the four elements signifying position in the crossroads, the bridge between the worlds.
Figure represents wind deity, universal soul, dual mother, mercurial goddess with wing feathers in colours the four elements.
Sat before black seaweed candle for uncrossing and protection, housed in a copper mask; the self projected to the world in front. Removable pins can be lifting when drawn towards and connecting to particular forces.
Alchemical Fountain of Rebirth, 2018.
Sketch for speculative Ritual Object
Sketch for speculative Ritual Object
Collection Number
S.R/O.8
Object Name
Drawing of Ceramic Infusion Vessel
Object Type
Drawing, Speculative Magic
Size
21, 29
Materials
Ink, graphite pencil, manufactured wood pulp paper
Physical Description
Dated circa 2122. Four pages of drawings from notebook with sketches of an ‘infusion vessel’ to take herbal water distillations and medicine during collective meditation.
Use and Meaning
Drawing for infusion vessel demonstarates communities use of folk medicine and collective magic to bond to each other and to Swansula land. Vessel details five mouth tendrils for breathing vapour from distilled flora.
Imagined to be used outside around open fire. Vapours collect in copper horn, distilled into tinctures. Ceramic panels representing elements surround vessel, fortifying balance.
Imagined to be used outside around open fire. Vapours collect in copper horn, distilled into tinctures. Ceramic panels representing elements surround vessel, fortifying balance.
Relics of Estuarine Magic is an ongoing project and exploration of Swansombe Peninsula ...
Reed paper sample made with Bullrush seed heads collected from Swanscombe Marshes, 2021