Manyi Takor

About

Manyi is a multidisciplinary artist working across drawing, painting and sculpture. Her practice explores cross-cultural production and identity, drawing on interests in human physiology, psychology and the metaphysical. Her works interrogate dominant narratives, perception and unconscious bias, fashioning new narratives for liminal subjects.

Manyi’s current project explore identity, memory, personal history and connection. It examines how archiving can be achieved for communities with a tradition of oral history transmission and iconographic, symbolic or indexical communication. Cultures such as these have historically been subject to exclusion, erasure and foreign (re)interpretation.

Inspire by her personal history, she is creating a series of works inspired by stories her mother tells from memory. These often life size works on canvas feature both abstract and figurative elements built up through several layers of drawing, painting with acrylics, ink, charcoal and coloured pencil. Additive as well as subtractive processes are employed with visual residues of her process often evident throughout the surface.

Manyi earned her BA (Hons) Fine Art from Central Saint Martins and is supported by the Frank Bowling Scholarship.