CORSIO
Sink and stick in a bog
Exhibition dates:
22 October – 22 November 2025
Location:
Stiwdio Griffith, Dynevor Campus, Swansea College of Art, SA1 3EU
Opening times:
10am – 5pm, Monday – Saturday
SAVE THE DATE:
Friday 21 November, 5 – 7pm
Closing event with Manon Awst and Dylan Huw in conversation
Manon Awst’s CORSIO is a culmination of four years’ sculptural research on Welsh peatland.
The verb corsio is formed from the Welsh word for bog – cors – meaning to sink and stick in a bog. This is an apt title for an exhibition which proposes ways of sinking deep into the materiality of landscape and explores how sculptural works stick to ecologies over time. The word is also associated with ‘becoming looser’, which connects to the artist’s playful collaboration with the sites and their materials.
The exhibition includes film, sculptural props, poems and samples that give form to rooted research and reflection on the alkaline fens of Anglesey and the quaking bogs of Eifionydd and Crymlyn, Swansea. Through performative investigations and material compositing, Awst embraces peat as a deep, situated ground with the potential to deconstruct boundaries between what is solid/fluid, wet/dry, dead/alive, stable/precarious, human/more-than-human.
A new sculptural composite will be created in situ at Stiwdio Griffith – an experiment in performative collaboration with materials collected from her chosen fens and bogs. The sculpture is rooted in peatland restoration and regenerative practice without losing the tactile and spatial curiosity which distinguishes the artist’s work.
CORSIO offers space to explore the associative textures of terrain that can sometimes seem inaccessible or remote. Far from being natural and undisturbed, these are essentially sculpted environments, continuously moulded by human and more-than-human communities. To sink and stick in a bog means to be open to grounds that are wet, slow and unpredictable.
To find your local cors, visit:
Welsh Peatland Data Portal
With thanks to
Alex Duncan (
Swansea College of Art)
Sarah Pogoda (
Bangor University)
Hanna Huws (
National Peatland Action Programme)
Mark Bond (
LIFEquake, Natural Resources Wales)
Sam Ridge (
Bannau Brycheiniog National Park)
Iona Blockley (
Elan Valley Trust)
Simon Curling (
Bangor Biocomposites Centre)
Dylan Huw
Joseph Conran
Judith Musker Turner
Karine Décorne
Arwyn Davies
Chris Mace
Much of the work in the exhibition was created during a
Future Wales Fellowship supported by Arts Council Wales, Natural Resources Wales, Peak Cymru, National Trust and Elan Links.
