Nicole Baginski, Robert Gabris, iSaAc Espinoza Hidrobo & Joanna Stange, Pauline Curnier Jardin & the Feel Good Cooperative, Krõõt Juurak & Alex Bailey, Liquid Dependencies Theory x Elli Kuruş, Sethembile Msezane, Rosalind Nashashibi, Lena Anouk Philipp, Rory Pilgrim, Liz Rosenfeld, Selma Selman, Jay Tan, Geo Wyex
2023
Photos: Simon Vogel
Festival of Feelings
curated by Aneta Rostkowska & Kris Dittel
CCA Temporary Gallery
Cologne
April 2023
Photos: Luise Flügge
Material Memory
curated by Katayoun Arian
Tent Rotterdam
Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Cihad Caner, Hannah Dawn Henderson, Kari Robertson
2023
Photos: Installation images by Aad Hoogendoorn, opening event image by Mark Bolk
Fellows Exhibit
Gerrit Rietveld Academy & Sandberg Institute
with Waèl el Allouche, Jason Hendrik Hansma, Elia Kalogianni, Laura Pappa & Elisabeth Klement, Taylor Le Melle, María Mazzanti, Rachel O’Reilly, Octave Rimber-Rivière
Amsterdam
2022
Photos: First image by Marta Hryniuk, second and fourth image by Nicola Lamburov
Something to Hold in the Let Go
Dagmar Bosma, Karin Iturralde Nurnberg, Raoni Muzho Saleh, Sophie de Serière & Clementine Edwards
an artist book on material kinship, the subject that has grown from and guides much of my studio practice. With written contributions thinking into the subject from 15 writers and artists: 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, Aileen Moreton-Robinson, Michelle Murphy, Ada M. Patterson, Kim TallBear and Michelle Tea <3
2022
A Moth Upon A Star
Clementine Edwards & Ada M Patterson
LIVE WORKS Vol. 9 Centrale Fies
Dro, Italy
2022
Photos: Roberta Segata
Miniatures & Poppenhuizen (WIP)
Fellowship
Jewellery—Linking Bodies Department
Gerrit Rietveld Academy
Amsterdam
2022
Bling Ring
curated by Vanessa Mei Crofskey
Enjoy Contemporary
Te Whanganui a Tara/Wellington
2021
Photos: Cheska Brown
The Worldliness of Oil
curated by Anne Szefer Karlsen & Helga Nyman
Kunstlicht Magazine
cover art and poem ‘Squeeze Like Lemon’
2021
Material Motel
Clementine Edwards & Yoeri Guepin
Growing Space
Rotterdam
2020
Photos: Carmen Jose & Bobby Paul Sayers
To You It's Only Collecting Dust
curated by Livio Casanova, Selina Lutz & Hannes Zulau
Milieu
Bern
2020
Photos: Milieu
On Material Kinship & its Genealogy
curated by Dagmar Bosma
Perdu
Amsterdam
complicating received ideas around material and complicating received ideas around kin
Take Apart a Pug and Put it Back Together a Pomeranian
State of Concept
Athens
July 2018
A Piece of Dada
Mikrokosmos Cinema, Athens & FLAM: Forum of Live Art, Amsterdam
Collaborative film made in cooperation with If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want to be Part of Your Revolution for the Dutch Art Institute,
written & directed by Clementine Edwards, Lukas Malte Hoffmann, Tirza Kater, Rabea Ridlhammer, Clara Saito, Giorgos Tsiongas, Wilfred Tomescu
curated by Meredith Turnbull and Manon van Kouswijk
Sarah Scout Gallery
Melbourne
Benedikt Fischer, Benjamin Woods, Manon van Kouswijk, Noon Passama, Jantje Fleischhut, Flora Vagi, Meredith Turnbull, Rebecca Thomas, Debris Facility
2017
Photos: Meredith Turnbull
Tess
55 Sydenham
Sydney
with Isadora Vaughan
May 2017
Photos: Stelios Papadakis
The Boat
Offsite show curated by GHOST
Rotterdam
Clementine Edwards, Christian Hansen, Anna Maria Łuczak, Katherine MacBride, Maria Isabel Rueda, Thom Walker
April 2017
Photos: Tor Jonsson
Parsley Bay
Offsite show
Holly Childs, Clementine Edwards, Ash Kilmartin
Rotterdam
December 2016
A big pile of rubbish with rats feeding on it
West Space
Melbourne
19 August - 19 September 2016
Photos: Christo Crocker
The Verandah Archibald
Offsite show organised by Clementine Edwards & Esther Stewart
Melbourne
Caroline Anderson, Katherine Botten & Ruby Fitzgerald, Trevelyan Clay, Lisa Marie Corso & Alice Oehr, Hamishi Farah, Merryn Lloyd, Liang Luscombe, Autumn Royal, Charlie Sofo, Amy May Stuart, Julia Stewart, Lara Thoms with glovebox solo show by Oscar Perry
August 2016
Photos: Amy May Stuart
Tiny Debut
Quest Serviced Apartments
Clementine Edwards and Esther Stewart
Melbourne
July 2016
Photos: Amy May Stuart
Offsite
West Space curated by Patrice Sharkey
Clementine Edwards, Lou Hubbard, Kate Meakin, Ruth O’Leary, Chris Sciuto, Kalinda Vary, Ronnie van Hout
Melbourne
December 2015
Photos: Lauren Dunn
124,908
Tara McDowell
2nd Tbilisi Triennial
Republic of Georgia
Leone Contini, Cevdet Erek, George Egerton-Warburton, Amy Franceschini, Helen Grogan, Ieva Misevičiūtė, Kateřina Šedá and Ash Kilmartin with Xin Cheng, Eliza Dyball, Clementine Edwards, Debris Facility, Emma Fitts, Susan Jacobs, and Virginia Overell
Centre Court, Munich, March 2015
Brooklyn Metal Works, New York, July 2015
Wunderumma Festival, Auckland, August 2015
Radiant Pavilion, Melbourne, September 2015
Photos: Christo Crocker
Hugs and Quiche, curated by Lucina Lane and Nellie Reinhard
Elizabeth
Grace Anderson, Clementine Edwards, Ry Haskings & Amanda Marburg, Matt Hinkley, Spencer Keizer, Lucina Lane, Matthew Linde, Elizabeth Newman, John Nixon, Nellie Reinhard, Fran Sharp, Nic Tammens, Alex Vivan
Melbourne
Articles of Clothing, Elena Betros, Christo Crocker, Clementine Edwards, James Eisen, Lucina Lane, Matthew Linde, Helen Johnson, Ash Kilmartin, Adelle Mills, Joshua Petherick, Juliet Rowe, Kate Smith, Nic Tammens, Alex Vivian
Melbourne
June 2014
Spiral Jetty at KFC
TCB Art Inc
Melbourne
April 2014
C.V.
Clementine Edwards
Rotterdam & Naarm
EDUCATION
2016-18
Masters of Art Praxis, the Dutch Art Institute, The Netherlands
2012
Bachelor of Art (Gold & Silversmithing), RMIT, Melbourne
2005
Bachelor of Art (Politics), University of Melbourne & Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Guadalajara
Diploma of Modern Languages (Spanish), University of Melbourne
SOLO SHOWS & PRESENTATIONS
2022
A Moth Upon A Star:, with Ada M Patterson, LIVE WORKS Vol. 9, Dro, Italy
I Want to Fly on the Spring Winds South (performance) Manifold Books, Amsterdam
A Piece of Dada, collective film made in cooperation with If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want to be Part of Your Revolution for the Dutch Art Institute, Mikrokosmos Cinema, Athens & FLAM: Forum for Live Art, Amsterdam
Duck Eat Dog, with Lili Huston-Herterich and Ian Clewe, (offsite) Schouwburgplaats, Rotterdam
Parsley Bay, with Holly Childs and Ash Kilmartin, (offsite) Rotterdam
Small Art, curated by Danielle Hakim, Mailbox Art Space, Melbourne
Tiny Debut, with Esther Stewart, Quest Serviced Apartments, Melbourne
Until they killed her, ate her and years went by, (offsite) Melbourne
Drawings Show, curated by Charlie Sofo, Artery Studios, Melbourne
2015
MacArthur Park, curated by James Bowen, Fort Delta Gallery, Melbourne
124,908, with Ash Kilmartin, curated by Tara McDowell, the 2nd Tbilisi Triennial, Republic of Georgia
paper-plastic-metal-stone, Radiant Pavilion festival, Melbourne (exhibition encountered in person and on Instagram)/ Wunderruma, Auckland / Brooklyn Metal Works, New York/ Centre Court Gallery, Munich
Losing Spree, with Debris Facility, Studio 16, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
Acervo da Laje residency, organised by Ruth Noack and the Dutch Art Institute, Coati, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, 2017
Munich Jewellery Week digital takeover, Current Obsession Magazine, NL
PUBLISHING & WRITING
The Material Kinship Reader, co-edited with Kris Dittel, Onomatopee, 2022
The Material Kinship Reader book events at Temporary Gallery, Cologne; San Seriffe, Amsterdam; Books @ RET, Rotterdam, 2022
Writer — Tijdschrift Kunstlicht, Un Magazine (Melbourne), SieradenMuze.nl, Sydney Writers Festival, e-flux conversations
FREELANCE EDITORIAL
Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons (NL), Onomatopee (NL), ExtraCity (BE), Penguin Books (AU), Harper Collins (US), NYC Jewelry Week (USA), Current Obsession Magazine (NL), Tent Rotterdam (NL), Willem de Koonig University (NL), 2016 – present
EDITORIAL
Casco Art Institute (NL) 2017 – 21
Penguin Books Australia (AU) 2012 – 16
GRANTS
Mondriaan Artist Corona Grant, 2022
Mondriaan Publication Grant: The Material Kinship Reader, 2022
Stimuleeingsfonds Publication Grant: The Material Kinship Reader, 2021
Droom en Daad Foundation Grant: The Material Kinship Reader, 2021
CBK PPR Fund: The Material Kinship Reader, 2021
Mondriaan Project Fund: The Material Kinship Reader, 2021
ORGANISATIONAL
2020 – ongoing
The DAI Friends & Alumni Grant, convener
The Climate Justice Code, volunteer, initiated by Casco Art Institute
2019
‘Our House is on Fire’ public assembly (editorial committee) Casco Art Institute
The Frankenstein Backpack Show P. II, roaming exhibition, launched Tender Center, Rotterdam
2017
Absence Takes Shape, with Maike Hemmers and Sanne Kabalt, Van Abbemusuem, Eindhoven