Manon Awst
Manon Awst is a Welsh artist who creates sculptures, performances and site-specific artworks woven with ecological narratives. From the patterns of peatlands to the textures of the intertidal zone, she explores ways in which materials stick to and transform locations and communities. She was recently granted a Henry Moore Foundation Artist Award and is currently a Future Wales Fellow as part of Arts Council Wales and Natural Resources Wales’ Creative Nature programme. She lives in Caernarfon and regularly holds workshops and curated events in her local community.
Artist yw Manon Awst sy’n creu cerfluniau, perfformiadau a gwaith safle-benodol wedi eu plethu â naratifau ecolegol. O glymweithiau corsiog i weadau rhynglanwol, mae hi’n archwilio’r ffyrdd y mae deunyddiau'n glynu at leoliadau a chymunedau ac yn eu trawsnewid. Yn ddiweddar derbyniodd wobr i artistiaid gan yr Henry Moore Foundation ac maehi’n un o Gymrodorion Cymru’r Dyfodol ar hyn o bryd, fel rhan o raglen Natur Greadigol Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru a Chyfoeth Naturiol Cymru. Mae hi’n byw yng Nghaernarfon ac yn cynnal gweithdai a digwyddiadau yn rheolaidd o fewn ei chymuned leol.
