Manon Awst
We caught up with Manon Awst, who has three pieces in the Tŷ Pawb Open exhibition, and asked her a few questions…
- Where are you from?
I currently live in Caernarfon, and love being caught between mountains and sea.
- How long have you been a practicing artist for?
I think I’ve always been a practicing artist, ever since I got into the habit of filling sketchbooks in school. But after studying Architecture at Cambridge, I moved to Berlin and started working on art projects full-time.
- How has Lockdown effected the way you work?
Lockdown has affected everything and everyone, and has definitely influenced my work – I’ve been responding more directly to my immediate environment, and have been making short experimental films as a way of exploring ideas.
- Where do you find the most pleasure in your practice?
I get most excited by discovering a new site, be it architectural or in the landscape, and then through research I find connections that have somehow always been there but have been
dormant.
- What impression do you want your work to make on audiences?
With my work I hope to spark people’s curiosity about a place or situation that has, over
time, merged into the background. That is, sometimes all it takes is a new kind of framing or perspective in order to see a familiar situation differently, so that the relationship between people, sites and materials is shaken up for a moment.