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Clem Edwards

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Clem Edwards works between sculpture and language, and is currently focussed on European hardware and ornamentation. Their practice brings into conversation the possibility of the glittering dream castle and the deep knowing that the Disney story can’t exist without the labour, gender and land conditions that produced it. How to honour, remember and enchant the worlds that we are immersed in, and the contexts that shape us, nourish us and resist us?
Their ongoing research line is material kinship, which thinks material beyond extraction and kinship beyond the biological family. It is the subject of The Material Kinship Reader, which they co-edited with Kris Dittel in 2022 and republished in 2025. clementineedwards.com. Profile image by Nick Thomas & Marta Hryniuk, 2024

You Are Here, Paying Rent
You Are Here, Paying Rent - Bronze hinge, image by Nick Thomas & Marta Hryniuk 2024
Talk Dirty to Me
Talk Dirty to Me - Bronze hinge, photo by Nick Thomas & Marta Hryniuk 2024
Slow Swoon installation image
Slow Swoon (solo show) - Manifold Books, Amsterdam, 2025. Image by A.(Nastija) Kiake
Deck chair (detail)
Deck chair (detail) - Manifold Books, Amsterdam, 2025. Image by Marta Hryniuk
Deckchair (back side)
Deckchair (detail) - Manifold Books, Amsterdam, 2025. Image by A.(Nastija) Kiake.
Boys are so Easy to Impress
Boys are so Easy to Impress - Bronze hinge, 2025
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 (detail) - Temporary Gallery, Cologne, 2023. Photo by Simon Vogel
Riceland & Copperland - Tent Rotterdam, 2022. Photo by Nick Thomas
Riceland & Copperland (detail) - Tent Rotterdam, 2022. Photo by Nick Thomas
Rice Huisje - Rice grains, gold-, silver-, bronze-leaf, 2022. Made during my Rietveld Fellowship in the Jewellery—Linking Bodies department. Photo by Marta Hryniuk
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 Clem 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, M. Murphy, Ada M. Patterson, Kim TallBear and Michelle Tea
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

Tracing Material Kinship: Fossilised Lives, Queer Plastics & Jewellery Magic

Datum:
Locatie: Rietveld Academie
In samenwerking met: Jewellery-Linking Bodies

A Monday night lecture

https://www.jewellerydepartment.nl/monday-evening-lecture-by-clementine-edward/

To You It's Only Collecting Dust

Datum:
Locatie: Milieu
https://milieu-digital.com/

To That Special Someone (Part II)

Datum:
Locatie: Hotel Maria Kapel
In samenwerking met: at7

The short film whiteness is a preliminary sketch about the white everyday. Tender scenes of comfort are placed in relation to Black critical theory to explore the idea of ​​safety in white supremacist civil society. The film sets out to complicate its atmosphere of solitary intimacy by proposing that one cannot understand oneself if that understanding occurs within the assumption of the absolute fact of individual subjectivity.

http://hotelmariakapel.nl/nl/2020/07/12/to-that-special-someone-part-ii/

Material Motel

Datum:
Locatie: Growing Space
In samenwerking met: Yoeri Guepin

Two person seed drop mini drama exhibition. A material snapshot of the gentrifying neighborhood Wielewaal.

https://growingspacewielewaal.hotglue.me/

Material Kinship Genealogies

Datum:
Locatie: Perdu

Curated by Dagmar Bosma

https://perdu.nl/nl/archief/clementine-edwards/

Sweetheart

Datum:
Locatie: Roodkapje

Text by Ada M Patterson here: https://www.mistermotley.nl/art-everyday-life/dingen-without-dood

https://www.aqnb.com/2019/12/16/clementine-edwards-sweetheart/

Femke Hears a Who

Datum:
Locatie: Peach
In samenwerking met: Alexander Iezzi

A two-person film and installation. Watch the movie below.

https://vimeo.com/336086263

Law of the Instrument

Datum:
Locatie: Kunstverein am Rosa Luxemburg

Film and installation. Watch an extract of the movie below.

https://vimeo.com/348364560
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