Manon Awst is an artist based in Caernarfon, Wales, who makes sculptures and site-specific artworks woven with ecological narratives. Her interdisciplinary approach to sites and materials is moulded by her upbringing in North Wales, her academic studies in Architecture and Artistic Research, and ten years of collaborative practice in Berlin as part of artist-duo Awst & Walther.
The way materials transform locations and communities is at the forefront of her creative research: they are social, political and ecological markers of our time. And she channels this understanding into her sculptural practice.
She has exhibited widely in the UK and Germany including at Cass Sculpture Foundation, National Museum Wales, Mostyn, Boros Collection, Georg Kolbe Museum and Kunstverein Braunschweig.
Her work is part of the National Library of Wales and the Welsh Parliament collections and she has permanent installations on the Wales Coastal Path at Nant Gwrtheyrn and at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin.
Temporary Atlas at Mostyn, 2022
Photo: Jason Roberts / Mostyn
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1983
Born in Bangor, Wales
2005
Architecture (MA Cantab), Cambridge University
2014
Artistic Research, RCA, London
2015
Creative Wales Award, Arts Council of Wales
Current Public Spaces Creative Coordinator, Pontio Arts
2021 Cynfas 5: Habitat Guest editor for National Museum Wales’ digital magazine
2021
Consultant artist on Theatr Clwyd redevelopment with Haworth Thomkins Architects
2021
Storws Enlli design and development project with PegwArchitects
2019
Curator of SAIN50 exhibition at The National Library, Aberystwyth and Storiel, Bangor
2018
Curator and project manager of STAMP Castell03: To The Sea, a public art project in partnership with Cadw, Gwynedd Council and Arts Council of Wales
Lobe Block, Berlin 2022 