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BIO:
Marie-Louise Jones is an award-winning artist currently undertaking a MWAM residency with Makerversity at Somerset House. Previous projects include institutional commissions for the Barbican Centre, exhibitions with Tate Modern, Saatchi Gallery, awards include: London Festival of Architecture Fitz&Sits winner, East London Impact Scholars Award, The Davidson Prize shortlist, Ingram Prize, Arts Council England Awards, and a scholarship LabVerde Residency in the Amazon Rainforest. In 2021 she completed her Fine Art Masters at Central St Martins as a recipient of the prestigious Mona Hatoum Scholarship, and after graduating went on to become Mona Hatoum's assistant, providing her with a unique background in contemporary sculpture and installation. Academic work includes lectures, talks and seminars with University of the Arts London, University of East London, and Winchester School of Art STATEMENT: Marie-Louise' wide ranging ouevre navigates intersections of art, science, design, and architecture, manifesting as sculpture, installation, image-making, and participatory practice. Her work is an inquiry into ontology and materiality, exploring the tensions between organic and industrial aesthetics, where structures of growth, both biological and urban, intersect. Engaging with cellular and geological formations, architectural remnants, and biomaterial experimentation, she examines these elements not just as visual or material references but as ways of questioning how things come into being, persist, and decay Through this, her practice challenges fixed notions of form, resilience, and adaptation by emphasising fluid, interdependent relationships between the built and the natural world. Investigating how environments - constructed and organic - shape and are shaped by bodies, histories, and more-than-human agencies. Revealing the entanglements between natural processes and human-made systems, unsettling binary distinctions between nature and technology, artificial and organic, growth and entropy Her practice is about entanglement, between material and metaphysical, creation and dissolution, knowledge systems and sensory experience. By making these tensions tangible rather than merely representative, she invites deeper reflection on our ecological and existential precarity, exploring how we inhabit and co-exist within shifting, unstable structures |
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“..Marie-Louise' work has a depth that goes beyond aesthetics or material choices, it’s a layered investigation into how things exist, interact, and evolve over time. She merges industrial and organic forms as a visual contrast, and as a philosophical inquiry into what constitutes 'life' and 'structure' in a world shaped by both biology and human intervention. Resisting easy categorisation she moves between disciplines, borrowing from science, architecture, and design, but never in a way that feels derivative. Instead, these influences seem to feed into an ongoing exploration of transformation, whether that’s the slow accumulation of urban decay or the growth patterns of cellular structures”