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 &

KELLY MANNING

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 &

Edenhope Artist in Residence 2025

The Undesirable

Tetra Pak Print on 4 vintage handkerchiefs

The Undesirable

Tetra Pak and Collagraph on Stonehenge Paper

28 × 38 cm

2025

The Undesirable II

Tetra Pak Print on Stonehenge

28 × 38 cm

2025

Tetra Pak Printing Plates

Tetra Pak Printing Plates. Made from assembling salvaged tetra pak packaging together.

Chained

Tetra Pak (and Ghost Prints) on Stonehenge Paper

76 × 52 cm

2025

Untitled

Tetra Pak Printing Plate and Ghost Print

Camp

Gouache on Stonehenge

153 × 112 cm

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.