I work across sculpture and multimedia, combining 21st-century technologies with ancient glass-forming techniques. I explore physical and digital making to communicate diverse narratives, connecting humans with worlds on this planet and beyond. My artwork both celebrates the natural world and focuses on environmental vulnerability and human impact on biodiversity or climate change.

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Biography
My practice-based PhD in the Glass Department at the University of Sunderland developed an ‘Internet of Glass Things’, blending the qualities of glass with the capabilities of electronics to create interactions and incorporate media to make playful artworks. My original art training was at Dartington College of Arts and Oxford Brookes.
I exhibit nationally/internationally and was commended in the Glass Sellers/CGS Graduate Prize 2024, longlisted for Lumen Prize ‘22 and received the Mike Davies Innovation Award ‘21.

Recent Exhibitions & Projects
2026 Hidden, Norwich Cathedral, a collaboration with migrant women.
2025 Infinity in Our Hands, LAND, The Art Station, Saxmundham, Suffolk
2025 New Every Morning commission, The Battery of Ideas, Lowestoft
2024 Ground Up, GroundWork Gallery, King’s Lynn
2024 Silica, Designer Makers/Diss Corn Hall
2024 Glass Beginnings, General Office Gallery, International Festival of Glass
2024 Infinity in Our Hands, Sound Scene, Hirshhorn Art Museum, Washington DC.
2024 Evolution, Glass Art Society conference, Berlin
2022/23 1.5 Degrees, Michigan State University Museum
2022 Collaborations, Wolverhampton Art Gallery
2022 Whispers from the Past and the Present, at Trades House, Glasgow and Wasps Creative Academy, Inverness
2022 British Glass Biennale, International Festival of Glass
2021 Rule 42, Stretched Language, Bonita Museum, US

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Website: www.lizwaughmcmanus.co.uk

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