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 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, Winchester School of Art and Kingston University

STATEMENT:
Marie-Louise’s practice navigates entangled terrains of art, ecology, and social care, materialising through sculpture, installation, image-making, and participatory interventions. Her work explores how materials, environments, and collective processes can become sites of transformation and healing, spaces where the boundaries between art, ecology, and community dissolve

With an awareness that all matter is energy, unchangeable in quantity yet continually shifting in form, her practice reflects a deep engagement with transformation as both material and metaphor. This manifests as an inquiry into the regeneration of materials, environments, and imaginaries, and into how acts of making might restore relationships between people, places, and the more-than-human world

Through the reprocessing of waste and the development of biomaterial systems, she challenges dominant material hierarchies and reconsiders what we deem valuable, permanent, or disposable. Projects such as reGen extend these ideas into social and educational contexts, where collaboration, dialogue, and place-based making become tools for environmental and collective repair

Alongside this, her work engages with speculative ecologies and more-than-human architectures... evolving, symbiotic systems that blur distinctions between organism and structure, natural and synthetic, care and construction. Here, sculpture becomes a living system - responsive, adaptive, and interdependent
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Drawing on cellular and geological forms, architectural remnants, and scientific inquiry, Marie-Louise examines how things come into being, persist, decay, and how cycles of growth and entropy mirror processes of healing and renewal. Beneath her exploration of material transformation lies a deeper pursuit of interconnectedness, in an effort to sense and sustain the web of relationships that binds matter and life

INSTAGRAM: @marie_louise_jones_

​“..Marie-Louise' work 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, to feed an ongoing exploration of transformation, whether that’s the slow accumulation of urban decay or the growth patterns of cellular structures”