CV

Widely regarded as an authority in the ANTHOTYPE printing process, a video about my work, made by the London Alternative Photography Collective may be found HERE           

Named as a contemporary experimental photography reference in the 2019 A-level Art & Design paper for Pearson Edexel

“Edwards’s iPhone photos will make the most staunch camera traditionalist a believer in the latest medium of photography. Mostly in black and white, her dreamlike images are poignant reminders of the mysterious beauty found in the mundane.” FABRIK magazine Issue 24, April 2014 pp 83-95

MOST RECENTLY

March 17 - June 4 2023 NATURAL MAGIC: Experiments in Photography Bodleian Westin Library Transcription, Oxford. Featured the work of five artists exploring sustainable photographic processes.

March 17 – April 15 2022 MAKING PICTURES FROM PLANTS: Contemporary Anthotypes, Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, Providence, Rhode Island. Curated by Jesseca Furguson and Mary Kocal.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS  

2016 ANTHOTYPES AND CHLOROPHYLL PRINTS The Barn, Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire

2014 FRAGMENTS OF DARK Wolverhampton Gallery

2015 OF PORTALS AND PARALLEL WORLDS Frances Beardsley Academy, Guildford, London

2007 HERE WE ARE! Photographs of the homes of Gloucestershire Traveller families, Tewkesbury Library and Town Hall

2007 SHRINE ONE, SHAVE GREEN Installation in Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire

2003 A TRAVELLER’S TRAIL Gloucestershire Folk Museum, Gloucester

2002 THESE FOOLISH THINGS Gloucestershire Folk Museum, Gloucester, UK  

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021 THE FABRIC OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Old Fire Station, Oxford, Oxford Photo Festival (Oct- Nov)

2021 INSTANT Society Of Scottish Artists online exhibition
2021 STRUCK BY LIGHT, Valid World Gallery, International Festival of Experimental Photography, Barcelona (July)
2021. GROUNDWORKS, Walking Artists Network, 3 Storeys, Nailsworth, Gloucestershire (June)
2021 UNSTABLE/SUSTAINABLE, London Alternative Photography Collective, Format Festival, Derby

2020 STRUCK BY LIGHT Experimental Photo Festival, Barcelona
2020 EXPERIMENTAL with Ellen Carey, The Exhibitionist, Kensington & Chelsea Art Weekend                                                                                  

2020 Beauty In Imperfection, Reclaim Photography Festival, Lighthouse Media Centre, Wolverhampton UK                                                                                                                                              2019 The Skin of the Print, Oxmarket Gallery, Chichester UK                                                                                                                                

2019 Ghost Mills, Wool and Water Festival, Stroud UK                                                                                                                                              

2019 The Cosmic Sublime, Pie Factory, Margate. Curated by the Lumen Group, London                                                                                                                                2018 Northern Lights Sheffield Hallam University UK            
2018 Ephemeral, Mobile Camera Club, Paris                                                                                                                                                               

2018 Monsters, Mobile Camera Club, Paris, Atelier Oblik, Clichy FR                                                                                                                         

2018 Cosmic Perspectives, Lumen London, Ugly Duck, London                                                                                                                                

 2017 Making It Real, London Analogue Festival, Ugly Duck, Bermondsey                                                                                                                  

 2017 School of Light, Lumen London, Ugly Duck, Tanner St., London                                                                                                                       

2017 Reclaim Photography Festival, Wolverhampton, UK,                                                                                                                                     

2017 La Fine dell’Universo, Lumen Group, The Crypt Gallery, St Pancras, London and Atina, Lazio, Italy                                                                  
2016 Impossible Humans The Unexpected Happening Auditorium, Rome                                                                                                                 

2016 Lumen Group, Crypt Gallery, St. Pancras London and Atina, Lazio, Italy                                                                                                              
2015 Do You Like Love? Salt & Pegram, Pricelet St., London                                                                                                                                    

2015 Chasing Shadows: Gallery X, Herbert Street Dublin                                                                                                                                         

2015 Head On Photography Festival, Sydney, Australia                                                                                                                                         

2015  Capturing Light: Silverprint Gallery, London                                                                                                                                                      

2015 Unstable: Format Festival, Derby UK                                                                                                                                                                 

2015 Plant Deltas and Macros with Nigel Henderson & Évelyne Coutas Brentwood Rd Gallery, Romford, EsseX

2013 Black & White Photography In the 21st Century: Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire

2014 Nomads & Orphans: Brentwood Rd Gallery, Romford, Essex.                                                                                                                           

2014 3rd International Biennial of Photography: Malaga, Spain
2014 Photo Independent Art Fair: Hollywood CA, USA

2012 Lumen Prize Finalists exhibition: Gallery 27 Cork Street, London

2012  LA Mobile Arts Festival: Los Angeles, CA, USA                                                                                                                                               

2012  Mobile Photo Paris: Bastille Design Centre: Paris     

SELECTED AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS, GRANTS & BURSARIES

2021 Recipient of the Dick Balzer Award 2021, Magic Lantern Society

2021 Pathways To Well-being, Holburne Museum, Bath

2020 Winner Hundred Heroines open call EXPERIMENTAL juror Ellen Carey

2019 Winner Julia Margaret Cameron Awards Cell Phone Series category

2014 ACE funded Hortus Lucis Anthotype research residency

2013 Winner ax3 American Aperture Photography Awards Mobile Photographer of the Year

2013 Winner ax3 American Aperture Photography Awards Mobile Landscape, Seascape & Nature Photography

2013 Winner ax3 American Aperture Photography Awards Mobile Video & Moving image

2013 Winner 4th Julia Margaret Cameron Photographic Awards, Fine Art Category

2013 Lumen Prize for Digital Arts, final 20

2006 ACE funded projects with Gypsy and Traveller families

2000 Transitions bursary Royal National Theatre, Loimu, Lapland

2001 - 02 Wingate Scholarship, English Gypsy and Traveller contemporary life and history

2001 ENGAGE exhibition award

2001  Julia Gomperts Trust

1997 Gold Medal, British Design Team, Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space                   

SELECTED RESIDENCES  

2021. Workshop leader (Anthotypes), Les Mars Des Pêches, Mobile Camera Club Paris, Montreuil, France
2020 Lead Artist, week 3 Sustainable Darkroom residency, London Alternative Photography Collective

2019  Wool and Water residency award, Hawkwood Centre For Future Thinking, Stroud, Gloucestershire

2018 Arna, Art in Nature, Harlösa, Sweden                                                                                                                                                                

2019 Fox Talbot Museum & Lacock Abbey National Trust                                                                                                                                           

2017  Fox Talbot Museum & Lacock Abbey National Trust                                                                                                                               

2016  Fox Talbot Museum & Lacock Abbey National Trust                                                                                                                              

2014 - 18  Lumen London International residency, Atina, Italy                                                                                                                                          

2018 The Crypt Gallery, St Pancras Church, London                                                                                                                                                    

2016 Le Bruit de Mon Oeil Port Boyer Nantes                                                                                                            

2016 Arna, Art in Nature, Harlösa, Sweden                                                                                                                                                                     

2014 - 16  Hortus Lucis Anthotype research Painswick Rococo Garden, Gloucestershire UK(ACE funded)  

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS, WORKSHOPS, LECTURING 

I have been invited to give presentations and run workshops about the Anthotype process and creative smartphone photography, in the UK and internationally, including: The Royal Photographic Society Visual Arts Group; BioColour seminar,, BioColour Consortium, Helsinki University; London Science Museum, London Natural History Museum, BBC Wildlife Photographer of the year Award, Le Bruit de Mon Oeil Port Boyer Nantes, TuMobArt Collective, Istanbul, Invited keynote speaker, Belfast Photo Festival, Mobile et Création #foodporn, Les ombiles du Désir”, Nouvelle Sorbonne University, Paris, SHADOWS II: Natural Transformations,London Alternative Photography Collective/ with UAL Photography and the Archive Research Centre, Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire, Trinity College Oxford, Guildford College, Frances Bardsley Academy, Romford, Essex  Visiting Lecturer: Royal College of Dramatic Art, Birmingham University, Nottingham Trent University, Design, Royal Welsh College of Speech and Drama, Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts

23 March 2022 Phytogenesis II: Provocations of Plants, Philosophy and Photography: online symposium, Plymouth University. Presentation of my work

SELECTED PUBLISHED WORK

2021. Right To Roam, published by the Inside The Outside group
2019  Alternative Photographic Techniques Jill Enfield; The Art of Mobile Photography2019  DIGIT: Royal Photographic Society digital imaging magazine

2018 Couture Mag, UK

2012  European Photography

2012 Focus, Netherlands

2012  Black and White Photography UK.

1995  British Theatre Design: The Modern Age