Georgia Manhire (2002) is a multidisciplinary artist based in South London, who explores personal and social histories through a creative practice concerned with mark making and its effects. At the forefront of her practice, Manhire utilises a unique perspective on drawing to transform her materials into psychically charged artefacts. 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. Manhire pairs traditional techniques in drawing, painting, and sculpture with an intuitive process based around an interest in embodiment. For Manhire, embodiment is as much to do with the body and the self as it is to do with the object and its properties. The artist references archaeology, tattooing and pain practices, and religious iconography alongside an interest in abstraction and performance.

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Over the years, Georgia Manhire has cultivated a visual language that cuts and etches, lacerates the surface and the viewer. Her gestural process is aggressive, yet it culminates in works that are introspective and penetrating. In recent works, she has experimented with the visual language and aesthetic of lived experiences of self-harm and suicide as understood through mark making. 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 her work with the Centre for Abuse, Trauma and Suicide Studies (CATS).