About

Josee Vesely-Manning is a visual artist who predominantly works with sculptural installation, often incorporating lighting and object design and site specific responses to the built environment. In her practice she explores themes of environmental degradation and material obsolescence within an invented and idiosyncratic universe of magic, speculative fiction and utopian proposition. Enlivened matter and effluvia are also ongoing investigations. Her performance background and growing up within a travelling circus family is a recurring motif.

She has worked for several years predominantly in Melbourne and Sydney, Australia and has delivered projects and exhibitions for a diverse range of galleries, festivals and funding bodies including The Australia Council, Arts Victoria, The City of Port Philip Cultural Development Fund, The City of Melbourne, Arts House/ The Meat Market, Federation Square, Carriageworks, Vivid Design Awards, Underbelly Arts Festival and LAB, NGV Melbourne Design Week and Artist Led Spaces.

She has also worked as a curator for interdisciplinary commissions and collaborations with both local and international artists and designers.

In 2018 she completed a Master of Fine Arts at Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney under the thesis title Magic Nihilism view here