Pace will present 'The Mudlarkers', an exhibition of new paintings by New York-based artist Kylie Manning, at its London gallery from 13 October through 14 November 2026, with a reception on 12 October. The show marks Manning's first solo exhibition in London. The paintings draw on the cultural and material specificities of London's River Thames. Manning incorporates Hampshire and London clay, along with silt gathered from the Thames, directly into her pigments — a continuation of her practice of making site-specific paintings attuned to the histories and atmospheres of their destinations. The title refers to mudlarking, the tradition dating to the late eighteenth century of scavenging the river's foreshore at low tide for objects of value, and today for the historical fragments the mud has preserved. Manning, whose career has taken her from the cabins of Alaskan fishing boats to New York's Lincoln Center, works between figuration and colour field: images emerge through transparent layers of wash, with faces and hands articulated in detail while torsos and legs dissolve back into the surrounding landscape. In these paintings she embraces an intensity of colour and compositional movement, holding works at what she describes as the apex of a tide, where one state has not yet yielded to the next. 'This notion of mudlarking shares a peculiar search with painting,' Manning says, 'a faith in the nearly visible, in something of value just beneath the surface.' Ahead of the opening, she spoke with the Financial Times about the new works, which draw on her upbringing along the coasts of Alaska and Mexico as well as the Thames itself. The exhibition opens in the middle of Frieze Week, positioning it as one of the season's notable gallery debuts.