Grace Emily Manning


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Grace Emily Manning


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Projects for Landscapes


Golden Valley, Herefordshire  The Golden Valley Sundial Project 

Cerne Abbas, Dorset  Consequences - Radical Ritual
Consequences Workshops
Birmingham & The Black Country
Alders of Woodbrook
The Walsall Camel Sanctum Cloth
Sanctum of The One Eyed Toad with General Public
The Birmingham Allotment Project 
TBAP Dye Process

Swanscombe Peninsula, Thames Estuary, Kent Swansula Sail
Muggins 
Plastic Bone
Relics of Estuarine Magic
LUNMES 2045
Swansula Quartz
Swansula
Brownfield Sister 
Sum Of All It’s Past 

Padstow, Cornwall 
The Tales of Cetus
The Plastic Age
Ghost Gear Poppets 
Cetus Belly Of The Whale

Glastonbury, Somerset Wildflower of Avalon
Red List Mother 
The Park Macrame


Installation

Choose Love - The Light Within
Kite Spirit and
The Patchwork
Storytelling Quilt with
Sita Brahmachari 

Drawing 

Drawings, 1
Drawings, 2 
Concept / Technical 

Painting

Blue Nacres in Moonlight
Iris 1,2
Overview 
Cultures 
Untitleds 

Moving Image

Rose
Tale of Pupa
White Moths
Inside Tide
Embodying Voice
Central Vessel  

Patchwork Storytelling
Project
Worry Angels
The Art of Transatlantic
Inclusion


The Tales of Cetus 




The Tales of Cetus, 2026
A Beach Guardian x Hanging By A Thread film - Directed by Alex Stevenson

“An inspiring feature-length documentary that follows both environmentalists and artists in their fight against plastic pollution. Delving into not only the problem of plastic pollution but also the power we all have to inspire and create positive change.” 




Cetus installation at Glastonbury Festival, 2022

Cetus , 2020 is a site-responsive project for the Seven Bays of North Cornwall created in collaboration with artist Andrew Whittle and social enterprise Beach Guardian.

Cetus is an eight meter long sculpture of a Humpback Whale woven entirely from Ghost Gear gathered from the Seven Bays in North Cornwall. Made in workshops over the course of two weeks with young people, students from Wadebridge secondry and beach cleaning volunteers from the local community surrounding Padstow.

Cetus was made to raise awareness of Ghost Gear, the name for lost, damanged and discarded fishing equiptment  left to haunt the Oceans. Ghost Gear is the most harmful form of marine debris. The sculpture has been used by Beach Guardian to spread awareness of their work and engage hundreds in discussion about plastic pollution, both locally and globally.

Exhibitions: 
Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts. Somerset. 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Boardmasters Festival. Cornwall. 2023
Rock Oyster Festival. Cornwall. 2022, 2023
The Royal Cornwall Show. 2022
St. Issey Primary School visit for the G7 Summit. Cornwall. 2021
Crowdfunder UK. Cornwall. 2021
On permanent display at Trevisker Garden Centre. Padstow, Cornwall. 2020 - Current

Collaborators: Andrew Whittle, Beach Guardian CIC, Trevisker Garden Centre, Padstow.

Participants: Wadebrige School, Beach Guardian volunteers.

Funders: The Joanna Toole Foundation, Global Ghost Gear Initiave, Beach Guardian CIC. 

Cetus, Belly of The Whale documents the creation of the sculpture beginning in 2020.