Marie-Louise Jones is a London-based artist who has exhibited internationally, with institutions including; Barbican Centre, Saatchi Gallery, and Tate Modern. Awards include; East London Impact Scholars Award, Arts Council England awards, The Davidson Prize, Ingram Prize, and a scholarship LabVerde Residency in the Amazon Rainforest. Completing her Fine Art Masters at Central St Martins as recipient of the prestigious Mona Hatoum Scholarship, she then went on to assist Mona Hatoum throughout 2021-22 “My practice navigates the intersections of art, industry, and ecology through a dual focus on the reprocessing of waste materials and living installations. I’m seeking an equilibrium between nature and the built environment, exploring the transformative relationships we hold with materials and living systems in a post-industrial, anthropocentric landscape One facet of my practice focuses on material regeneration, transforming reprocessed waste into seductive sculptural forms. Merging traditional sculpting techniques with modern industrial processes to challenge material hierarchies and notions of value. Projects like MATERIAL reGENERATION, a collaboration with the University of East London, engages local communities in the creation of sculptural products from waste, aims to inspire creative, educational, and economic opportunities through art The other facet involves the creation of evolving symbiotic structures. Through projects like ATTA I’m engaging with world-building, simulating speculative situations within the post-human experience to meditate on climate futures, digital technologies, and biocivilisations. Using nature as both medium and metaphor for transformation, I integrate art with emerging technologies and socially-engaged research to seek out new ways of thinking and being Ultimately, my work is a continual inquiry into the possibilities of renewal and regeneration, both materially and conceptually, within our evolving ecological and industrial paradigms” @marie_louise_jones_ |