Georgia Manhire (2002) is an artist, tattooer, and writer based in South London, who explores personal and social histories through a creative practice concerned with mark making and its effects. She utilises an expansive perspective on drawing to transcribe psychosomatic experience into works that express distortions of memory, sensory input, and internal narrative. These artworks often bare the natural marks of their creation, which Manhire values as a key focal point in their work, mirroring how the body bares the marks of life.

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She pairs conventional drawing and painting techniques with an intuitive process based around an interest in embodiment. They believe embodiment is as much to do with the body and the self as it is to do with the object and its properties. She references tattooing and pain practices, mental illness, and religious iconography alongside an interest in semiotics and abstraction.

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In recent works, they have experimented with the visual language and aesthetic of lived experiences of self-harm and suicide as understood through mark making. As a survivor of acute and complex trauma living with CPTSD, Manhire uses her work as a means for the processing and expression of events throughout her life. Both the mundane and the terrible remain constants in their work.

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Manhire works out of their studio in Kingston-Upon-Thames through The Koppel Project’s Affordable Studios Programme.

 

She has shown at Space Station Sixty-Five, the Bargehouse OXO Tower, Peckham Levels, The Lodge at Sands End Community Centre, The Kopple Project with Luminoir Art, and Ovada Gallery in Oxford. Manhire has also lectured and led workshops at the Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education, London-based charity Body&Soul, and Middlesex University as part of their work with the Centre for Abuse, Trauma and Suicide Studies (CATS).