Today we are on an adventure - to the sticky, secret depths of Wales’s peatlands. This intriguing landscape could be the answer to the climate crisis, but it also hold so many stories in its mysterious history. One artist who is trying to unravel them is Manon Awst, whose art, performance and poetry explores how peat bogs can teach us how to live in ways that are more connected with the earth we depend on.
Manon is a Welsh artist who explores how we connect to more-than-human environments - what we notice, what we miss, and how our coexistence might flourish. When we visit her, on a freezing early January day at Crymlyn Bog, outside of Swansea, she opens our eyes to the power and potential of these incredible landscapes - before breaking through the ice to go beneath their surface.
Manon's Future Wales Fellowship and creative work on peatlands is supported by Arts Council Wales and Natural Resources Wales. To learn more about the Fellowship and her peaty practice check out www.manonawst.com or @manon_awst on Instagram.
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