Clementine Edwards is a Rotterdam-based artist who works across sculpture, writing, performance and film. Clementine's ongoing research line is material kinship, which thinks material beyond extraction and kinship beyond the biological family. Craft, world-building and intimacy are integral to Clementine’s practice, as are the themes of toxic inheritances, climate crisis and climate-grief, and how lived experience, including trauma, narrates meaning-making. It asks, How to honour, remember and enchant the worlds that we are immersed in, and the contexts that shape us, nourish us and resist us? In 2022 Clementine was a Gerrit Rietveld Academy Fellow in the Jewellery—Linking Bodies department and published The Material Kinship Reader, co-edited with Kris Dittel. clementineedwards.com. Profile image by Roberta Segata at Live Works Vol 9, Central Fies, Dro, 2022
Promises & Threats: Me and My Dad Will Build a Whole Kingdom of Stuff from this Playground by Tomorrow Morning - Temporary Gallery, Cologne, 2023. Photo by Simon Vogel
Promises & Threats: Me and My Dad Will Build a Whole Kingdom of Stuff from this Playground by Tomorrow Morning - Temporary Gallery, Cologne, 2023. Photo by Simon Vogel
Rice Huisje - Rice grains, gold-, silver-, bronze-leaf, 2022. Made during my Rietveld Fellowship in the Jewellery—Linking Bodies department. Photo by Marta Hryniuk
Riceland & Copperland - Tent Rotterdam, 2022. Photo by Nick Thomas
Riceland & Copperland (detail) - Tent Rotterdam, 2022. Photo by Nick Thomas
Something to Hold in the Let Go - with Dagmar Bosma, Karin Iturralde Nurnberg, Raoni Muzho Saleh and Sophie de Serière, PuntWG, Amsterdam, 2022
The Material Kinship Reader - 2022 edited by Kris Dittel and Clementine Edwards Material beyond extraction and kinship beyond the nuclear family.
An artist book and reader, with contributions from Sara Ahmed, Hana Pera Aoake, Roland Barthes, Joannie Baumgärtner, Heather Davis, Ama Josephine B. Johnstone, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Ursula K. Le Guin, Sophie Lewis, Steven Millhauser, Jena Myung, Aileen Moreton-Robinson, Michelle Murphy, Ada M. Patterson, Kim TallBear and Michelle Tea
Material Motel - with Yoeri Guepin, 2020. Photo by Carmen José
Tremendous Microparticle Wall - 2019
Floral foam, Zuidpark goose egg, seaweed coathanger, seaweed mirror, Maasvlakte crab heads, ‘Try try, you can!!’ from Amy, dried scoby from Kris, river sculpture from Maike, Viennese diamond from Holly, rusty nail, plastic coral from Joseph, Monster ring pull, native Australian grasses, sate prikkers, snake skin fossil, beads, silver, Far North Queensland fresh water pearl, plastic pearls, shells, pet rocks stacked together, doll’s toys, electrical wire, Barcelona moonstones, keyring, feathers from Rotterdam, Melbourne and Pavilosta, bottle top, zip lock baggy, clothes tags, Eucalyptus leaf, bike reflectors, Burger King straw wrapper, used Scratchie, roses, Sanssouci pendant, Blaak polyester fabric, tape measure ends, Nerds box, happy birthday sequin, Amoxillin box, wool, dog toy, stolen ring, sea glass, vinyl doves, tubing, dog piss, fake nails, car debris, thread, needles, toothpaste box, vending machine rings
Dimensions variable. Photo by Nick Thomas
Tremendous Microparticle Wall (detail) - 2019
Floral foam, Zuidpark goose egg, seaweed coathanger, seaweed mirror, Maasvlakte crab heads, ‘Try try, you can!!’ from Amy, dried scoby from Kris, river sculpture from Maike, Viennese diamond from Holly, rusty nail, plastic coral from Joseph, Monster ring pull, native Australian grasses, sate prikkers, snake skin fossil, beads, silver, Far North Queensland fresh water pearl, plastic pearls, shells, pet rocks stacked together, doll’s toys, electrical wire, Barcelona moonstones, keyring, feathers from Rotterdam, Melbourne and Pavilosta, bottle top, zip lock baggy, clothes tags, Eucalyptus leaf, bike reflectors, Burger King straw wrapper, used Scratchie, roses, Sanssouci pendant, Blaak polyester fabric, tape measure ends, Nerds box, happy birthday sequin, Amoxillin box, wool, dog toy, stolen ring, sea glass, vinyl doves, tubing, dog piss, fake nails, car debris, thread, needles, toothpaste box, vending machine rings
Dimensions variable. Photo by Nick Thomas
