Georgina Manning
The Disappearance of Bertha Jones Photo Credit: Wysing Open 2024, Holly O'Brien
Based at Wysing Arts Centre in Cambridgeshire, Georgina Manning is a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, sculpture, installation, photography, performance, and film. Her practice is rooted in a deep curiosity about connection, memory, and the quiet weight of human presence.
Nature, self-reflection, and the human drive to belong are central to her work. Through layered, sensory processes—often using fabric, paint, and her own body—Manning treats making as both an embodied form of research and a means of transformation.
Her installations, performances and images invite slow, contemplative engagement, where narrative is not prescribed but gently uncovered. These works often explore the traces we leave behind—suggesting links between past and present, absence and presence, what is seen and what is felt.
Alongside her studio practice, Manning is an experienced art educator who has worked extensively with diverse communities. This collaborative exchange—sharing ideas, witnessing different lived experiences—has shaped her understanding of empathy, care, and creative connection. It is a vital and ongoing part of her artistic process.
More recently, her work has turned inward, drawing on personal histories and childhood memories to reflect on experiences of isolation, masking, and the search for belonging. By grounding the personal in the universal, Manning invites others to reflect on the quiet but powerful narratives that shape who we are—and how we relate to the world around us.
