Manon Awst is a Welsh artist who creates sculptures, performances and site-specific artworks woven with ecological narratives. She explores the way materials stick to locations and communities, transforming them deep beneath the surface. Her interdisciplinary approach is moulded by her academic studies in Architecture (University of Cambridge) and Artistic Research (Royal College of Art, London), and ten years of collaborative practice in Berlin as part of artist-duo Awst & Walther.
Her rooted interest in geology and structures of the land helps her forge new ways of working with sculptural materials, and her recent Future Wales Fellowship allowed her to focus on the ecological and cultural value of peatlands.
Manon will spend this summer at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds as one of their Artist Research Fellows, where she will develop her project 'Peat in Practice' and engage with areas of the Great North Bog. She was part of Up Projects’ Public Art Practitioners Programme in 2022.
Website: www.manonawst.com
Instagram: @manon_awst