MARC EDWARDS

Marc Edwards graduated with a Master of Arts in Fine Arts from the University of the Witwatersrand in 2010, a National Higher Diploma in Sculpture in 1982 and a National Diploma in Fine Arts 1980, both from Pretoria Technikon. He currently lives and works in Johannesburg where he has been a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture within the University of Johannesburg for nearly four decades.

Edwards is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice works across multiple media including drawing, sculpture, photography and video. His work considers decolonial modes of making and thinking, exploring themes of nature in visual culture, the artist as conduit, de-centering the subject, assemblage, and a critically questioning of the social and political landscape of the world today. His creative research methods include the exploration of a knowing-doing approach to making, enabling process and experiment to lead to unexpected outcomes. He also draws from object orientated ontology (OOO) in the making process. OOO posits that objects (both living and non-living) possess their own inherent realities, independent of human perception. In his work, he aims to respect the agency of materials and objects, allowing them to influence the process and shape the final work.