Kelly Manning is a constructivist artist operating from a queer, gubbah, army brat, survivor positionality. She interrogates modes of resilience, instinct, the post-apocalyptic and adaption. Her process-based methodology utilises, printmaking, painting, sculpture and installation, via public &

Decoy @ VCA Artspace 2024

Decoy

Polystyrene and pigment

Variable size

2024

@ VCA Artspace,

Melbourne University, Southbank.

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Kelly Manning is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, printmaking and animation. Across her 30+ year career, her work has investigated the impact of trauma and its ongoing legacies, the development of and need for strategies of survival, the power of resilience, and the importance of hope.