Manon Hillereau (b. 1996) is a French glassmaker with ten years of experience. She positions her practice at the intersection of traditional craftsmanship and contemporary experimentation.

Initially trained in the glass industry, she first sought to fully master the material in order to make it predictable. During her six-year expatriation in Denmark, her practice evolved significantly. She graduated in 2024 with a Bachelor’s degree specializing in glass from the Royal Danish Academy, where she found a space of freedom conducive to experimentation and began to embrace the unpredictability of molten glass rather than constrain it. Her work has since been recognized by the Danish Arts Foundation, through several awards supporting her artistic practice.

Through her sculptures, she invites viewers into spaces that are rarely visible: intimacy and identity. Her work exists in an in-between space, where attraction meets unease, and where the beauty of the material is as captivating as it is questioning.

Today, she allows the unexpected qualities of the material to emerge, embracing what are often considered “impurities” in glassmaking and allowing the traces of the making process to remain visible. Rather than being erased, these marks become an integral part of the work, carrying the history of its making and revealing the dialogue between material, gesture, and process.