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BIO:
Marie-Louise Jones is an award-winning artist currently undertaking a MWAM residency with Makerversity based at Somerset House. Previous project partners include Barbican Centre (2023), Saatchi Gallery (2021), Tate Modern (2020), with awards including: London Festival of Architecture Fitz&Sits winner (2025), East London Impact Scholars Award (2024), The Davidson Prize shortlist (2023), Ingram Prize (2021), Arts Council England Awards (2022), and a scholarship LabVerde Residency in the Amazon Rainforest (2022). She completed her Fine Art Masters at Central St Martins (2021) as 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, Winchester School of Art and Kingston University STATEMENT (SHORT): Marie-Louise Jones is an interdisciplinary artist working across sculpture, installation, material research, and participatory practice. Her work explores themes of transformation, interconnectedness, and planetary care. Her practice has two interconnected strands: one investigates living, adaptive systems where sculpture responds to its environment, and the other focuses on material transformation through waste and experimental materials. Using both traditional and digital processes, she examines destruction and renewal, and how acts of making can foster repair, care, and more thoughtful relationships with the material world STATEMENT: Marie-Louise Jones is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice navigates entangled terrains of art, ecology, and social care. Working across sculpture, installation, image-making, and participatory interventions, her work explores how materials, environments, and collective processes can become sites of transformation and healing Her practice is grounded in the understanding that matter is never static or disposable, but continually shifting in form. Material transformation operates as both medium and metaphor, framing an inquiry into regeneration of materials, environments, and imaginaries, and into how acts of making might restore relationships between people, places, and the more-than-human world One strand of her practice focuses on material transformation, involving the reprocessing of waste and the development of experimental material systems. Through this work, she challenges dominant material hierarchies and questions what is considered valuable, permanent, or disposable. Projects such as reGen extend these concerns into social and educational contexts, where collaboration, dialogue, and place-based making become tools for collective and environmental repair Running alongside this is a strand that engages with speculative ecologies and more-than-human architectures - evolving systems that blur distinctions between organism and structure, natural and synthetic, care and construction. Here, sculpture operates as a living, adaptive system, responsive to its environment and shaped by time, material agency, and context Drawing on cellular and geological formations, architectural remnants, and scientific inquiry, Marie-Louise examines how things come into being, persist, and decay. Beneath her exploration of material transformation lies a deeper pursuit of interconnectedness.. an effort to sense, sustain, and care for the web of relationships that binds matter and life |
INSTAGRAM: @marie_louise_jones_
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