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Revenge

with Joe Miranda

Same Page Art Book Fair
Naarm Melbourne

2024

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Hinges WIP

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Trash Revenge

with Natalia Sorzano

Brutus Rotterdam

2024

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9 Heavenly Bricks

Oneiro Space / Art Books in China

Beijing

2024

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Toxic Inheritances

WET Film

Rotterdam

2024

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The Shoulders We Stand On: An Expanded Reading Room

LungA Festival

curated by Helena Aðalsteinsdóttir & Þórhildur Tinna Sigurðardóttir

Seydisfjordur, Iceland

July 2023

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Photos: 1 & 3: Ólöf Kristín Helgadóttir

Unruly Kinships

curated by Kris Dittel and Aneta Rostkowska

CCA Temporary Gallery

Cologne

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

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Festival of Feelings

curated by Aneta Rostkowska & Kris Dittel

CCA Temporary Gallery

Cologne

April 2023

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Material Memory

curated by Katayoun Arian

Tent Rotterdam

Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Cihad Caner, Hannah Dawn Henderson, Kari Robertson

2022–23

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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

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Something to Hold in the Let Go

Dagmar Bosma, Karin Iturralde Nurnberg, Raoni Muzho Saleh, Sophie de Serière & Clementine Edwards

PuntWG

Amsterdam

2022

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Photos: 1 & 2: Ilya Rabinovich

The Material Kinship Reader

Kris Dittel & Clementine Edwards (editors)

Jena Myung (designer)

Published by Onomatopee. More information here.

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

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A Moth Upon A Star

Clementine Edwards & Ada M Patterson

LIVE WORKS Vol. 9 Centrale Fies

Dro, Italy

2022

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Photos: Roberta Segata

Bling Ring

curated by Vanessa Mei Crofskey

Enjoy Contemporary

Te Whanganui a Tara/Wellington

2021

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Photos: Cheska Brown

The Worldliness of Oil

curated by Anne Szefer Karlsen & Helga Nyman

Kunstlicht Magazine

cover art and poem ‘Squeeze Like Lemon’

2021

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Material Motel

Clementine Edwards & Yoeri Guepin

Growing Space

Rotterdam

2020

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Photos: Carmen Jose & Bobby Paul Sayers

To You It's Only Collecting Dust

curated by Livio Casanova, Selina Lutz & Hannes Zulau

Milieu

Bern

2020

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On Material Kinship & its Genealogy

curated by Dagmar Bosma

Perdu

Amsterdam

complicating received ideas around material and complicating received ideas around kin

2020

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Photos: N/A. For audio enquiries: please email me

Law of the Instrument

Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz

Berlin

2019

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Pain

Clementine Edwards & Joannie Baumgärtner

curated by Mitchell Cumming

Knulp

Sydney

2019

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Get Well Soon

Roodkapje

Rotterdam

2019

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Photos: Nick Thomas

Take Apart a Pug and Put it Back Together a Pomeranian

State of Concept

Athens

July 2018

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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

2018
Watch the film online Password: dada

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Bloem en Blad

curated by James Anderson

Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery

Auckland

2017

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Show Don't Tell

The Dutch Art Institute

Dokzaal

Amsterdam

2017

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Photos: Alaa Abu Asad. Book design: Laura Thomas

Tête-à-tête

Streaming live online at ribrib.nl

Rib

Rotterdam

2017

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Visitors

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

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Tess

55 Sydenham

Sydney

with Isadora Vaughan

May 2017

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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

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Photos: Tor Jonsson

Parsley Bay

Offsite show

Holly Childs, Clementine Edwards, Ash Kilmartin

Rotterdam

December 2016

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A big pile of rubbish with rats feeding on it

West Space

Melbourne

19 August - 19 September 2016

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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

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Tiny Debut

Quest Serviced Apartments

Clementine Edwards and Esther Stewart

Melbourne

July 2016

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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

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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

October 2015

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Curve Banana

Bus Projects

Melbourne

July 2015

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Photos: Christo Crocker

I Looked the Dog in the Eye

Seventh Gallery

Melbourne

July 2015

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Paper-Plastic-Metal-Stone

Katie-Jayne Britchford, Clementine Edwards, Emi Fukuda, Gillian Deery

Centre Court, Munich, March 2015
Brooklyn Metal Works, New York, July 2015
Wunderumma Festival, Auckland, August 2015
Radiant Pavilion, Melbourne, September 2015

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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

May 2015

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Losing Spree

Studio 17, Gertrude Contemporary

Debris Facility and Clementine Edwards
Melbourne

April 2015

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Corner Shop Show

Thornbury Studios

Clementine Edwards, Julian Hocking, Kimball Holth, Andre Piguet, Jess Redlich, Enrique Tochez

January 2015

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Intervention

Slopes Project Space

Melbourne

November 2014

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Elizabeth

Sutton Project Space

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

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Spiral Jetty at KFC

TCB Art Inc

Melbourne

April 2014

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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
2021
Schlimberlake and Schlieber, two-person show with Lukas Malte Hoffmann, Light Harvesting Complex, Vantaa, Finland
Poison’s friend Plastic knows Oil, who’s also friends with Microplankton, for Kunstlicht (performance Framer Framed, Amsterdam
Re: Re: Re: Re: (two-person show with Ada M Patterson) curated by Mourning School, Gallerie Nef, Stockholm
2020
Material Motel (two-person show with Yoeri Guepin) Growing Space, Rotterdam
Poison’s friend Plastic knows Oil, who’s also friends with Microplankton {performance} Stavanger Museum, Norway
On Material Kinship & its Genealogy (performance) Perdu, Amsterdam
Whiteness (online) Bus Projects, Naarm
2019
Sweetheart, Roodkapje, Rotterdam
On Pain [two-person show with Joannie Baumgaertner] Knulp, Sydney
Femke Hears A Who (two-person show with Alexander Iezzi) Peach, Rotterdam
Weltschmerz of Whiteness, performance, Antenne, Rotterdam
2018
Take a Pug Apart and Put it Back Together a Pom, performance, State of Concept, for the Dutch Art Institute, Athens
2017
Bloem en Blad, curated by James Anderson, Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, Auckland
Tess [two-person show with Isadora Vaughan] 55 Sydenham Road, Sydney
Tete-a-tete, performance, Rib, Rotterdam
Show Don’t Tell, performance, Dokzaal, for the Dutch Art Institute, Amsterdam
2016
A big pile of rubbish with rats feeding on it, West Space, Melbourne
Astrology, Psychology, Counselling, performance, for the Dutch Art Institute, Arnhem
2015
Curve Banana, Bus Gallery, Melbourne
I looked the dog in the eye, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne

2014
SPIRAL JETTY AT KFC, TCB art inc, Melbourne

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS & EVENTS

2023
Unruly Kinships, curated by Kris Dittel and Aneta Rostkowska, CCA Temporary Gallery, Cologne
2022
Material Memory, curated by Katayoun Arian, Tent Rotterdam Read the Metropolis M review by Jue Yang here.
Something to Hold in the Let Go, PuntWG, Amsterdam
Nadja–Clementine–Angela–Katja–Sophia–Yuka–Rebecca–Jing, curated by Katie Jayne Britchford, Kunst Pavillon im alten Botanischen Garten, Munich
Fellows Exhibit & Symposium, Sandberg Institute/Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
2021
Bling Ring, curated by Vanessa Mei Crofskey, Enjoy Contemporary Art Space, Wellington, NZ
With Permission from the Officer, with Zhixin Liao, curated by Angels Miralda, PuntWG, Amsterdam
2020
Crisis Imaginaries: Climate Feelings [talk] Framer Framed, Amsterdam
To That Special Someone, with Ada M. Patterson, Hotel Maria Kapel, facilitated by at7, Hoorn, NL
To You It’s Only Collecting Dust, curated by Livio Casanova, Selina Lutz & Hannes Zulauf, Bern, CH
The Whole World is Turning, text contribution to film by Ada M. Patterson, Tent, Rotterdam
Baitball, curated by PANE Project, Palazzo San Giuseppe, Polignano a Mare
Sonne, Perlen, Nikotin, film with Rabea Ridlhammer, Peach, Rotterdam
Holes in Smoke, with Amy Suo Wu, Artists’ Book Library @ Tai Kwun, HK
2019
Mood Ring, Roodkapje, Rotterdam
Law of the Hammer, Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin
Club Rory: The Reality, Roodkapje, Rotterdam
How does jewellery and material-as-kin construct and mutate our social identities?, workshop, with Debris Facility, Design Hub, Melbourne
Anomia #3, screening, curated by Bergur Thomas Anderson & Gunnar Gunnsteinsson, Worm, Rotterdam
Joyful Fast Art, workshop, with Rabea Ridlhammer, Roodkapje, Rotterdam
How does jewellery and material-as-kin construct and mutate our social identities?
with Debris Facility, Design Hub, Melbourne Design Week
2018
Stone Masculinity, performance with Lukas Malte Hoffmann, Jacuzzi, Amsterdam
Before the Fire Starts, Galerie Van Gelder, Amsterdam
: The Language of Things, The Dowse Art Museum, Wellington, New Zealand
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
2017
Visitors, curated by Manon van Kouswijk and Meredith Turnbull, Sarah Scout Presents, for Radiant Pavilion jewellery festival, Melbourne
Contest: Teaching as a Form of Art, curated by Ruth Noack, Van Abbemusuem, Eindhoven
The Boat, curated by GHOST, Katendrecht, Rotterdam
Freeze (performance), curated by Kalinda Vary, Georgina Criddle and Debris Facility, TCB Art Inc, Melbourne
The Floor Show, ONONO, Rotterdam
On Being, curated by Charlotte Cornish, The Honeymoon Suite, Melbourne
2016
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
2014
Intervention, Slopes Gallery, Melbourne
Elizabeth, Sutton Gallery Project Space, Melbourne
Brunswick Lake, Brunswick Lake Project Space, Melbourne

OTHER

TEACHING & FELLOWSHIPS
Fellow — Jewellery—Linking Bodies, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, 2021–22
Core Tutor — Reframing Climate Colonialism: Pleasuring the Radical Imagination, The Dutch Art Institute, 2020–21
Guest Speaker — KABK, The Hague, 2023
Guest Lecturer — Pavilion 27, Akademie de Bildenden Künste Nürnberg, 2021
Guest Lecturer — Jewellery—Linking Bodies, Gerrit Rietvelt Academy, Amsterdam, 2020
Guest Lecturer – New Earth, Social Practices, Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, 2020
WORKSHOPS
Minor Reveries: Enchanting the Everyday, ZHdK, Zurich, 2021
Skillsharing and Storytelling through (Climate) Crisis, Jewellery—Linking Bodies, Gerrit Rietvelt Academy, Amsterdam, 2020
Material Kinship, Roodkapje, Rotterdam, 2019
Joyful Fast Art, Roodkapje, Rotterdam, 2019
Jewellery Against Trauma, The Dutch Art Institute study group, 2018
Responding to Family Violence and Sexual Assault, organised with Undercurrent,
Westpace, Naarm/Melbourne, 2016 
RESIDENCIES
LiveWorks residency, Centrale Fies, Dro, Italy, 2022
The Croft residency, The Pro Artibus Foundation, Snäcksund, Finland, 2021
Roodkapje studio residency program, Rotterdam, 2019
PAiR Residency, VV Foundation, Pāvilosta, Latvia, 2019
Arts Catalyst digital residency, curated by Anna Santomauro, London, UK
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
Becoming More Porous / Becoming More Craft-oriented, online and at Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
Groupshow Kris Dittel (offsite) Rotterdam
Erotica (offsite) Rotterdam
2016
Verandah Show, curated with Esther Stewart (offsite) Melbourne
2015
Gong-bath Mountain at Wellness and Wild, Brunswick Sculpture Centre, Australia

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2022
Rimming Pearls, SieradenMuze.nl
2021
‘Squeeze Like Lemon’ in Tijdschrift Kunstlicht Vol. 42 NO 3/4, ‘The Worldliness of Oil’
2019
Dingen Zonder Dood [Deathless Things] Adam Patterson, Mister Motley
Making Kin with Plastics & Post Consumer Waste, AQNB
Plush toys, camp clutter & gabber music create a surreal dreamscape in Clementine Edwards & Alexander Iezzi’s Femke Hears a Who, AQNB
Femke Hears A Who, Tzvetnik
2017
‘Punk Jewelry’, Meredith Turnbull, Art Jewelry Forum
2015 
‘10 most exciting up and comers at Munich Jewelry Week’, Art Jewelry Forum
‘Art Radar #4: Jewellery’, Meredith Turnbull, Art Guide Australia.
2014 
Spiral Jetty at KFC, George Egerton-Warburton, Un Magazine 8.1

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