Clem Edwards

Clem Edwards is a Rotterdam-based artist working between language and sculpture. Their practice enacts material, experiential and affective residues of daily life. Busy with enchantment, their work brings into conversation the possibility of the glittering dream castle and the deep knowing that the Disney story cannot exist without the labour, gender and land conditions that produced it.

Clem is the co-editor of The Matetial Kinship Reader and, as of 2025, the head of Jewellery–Linking Bodies Bodies at Rietveld Academy. Lately they have been (hand)making brass and bronze hinges with memes on them – thinking about thresholds, European hardware traditions and the ways in which we pass through the world – architecturally, politically, gender-wise etc.
clementineedwards.com

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Mar '26

Publication launch: How Material Comes to Matter

San Serriffe bookstore, Sint Annenstraat 30 Amsterdam

Materiality – The launch of the publication 'How Material Comes to Matter - Workshops as sites of collective resistance and reimagination' will take place on the 13th of March at 18:30 at San Serriffe, with guests Harriet Rose Morley and Clem Edwards with introduction by Anja Groten and Márk Redele.

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Online publication: Fellows Published 2021-2022

During the event “Curves of Inquiry” the online publication "Fellows Published 2021-2022" was festively launched. The process and findings of the fellows who conducted their research in 2021 and 2022 are made accessible here. Contributors are: Waèl el Allouche, Clementine Edwards, Jason Hendrik Hansma, Elia Kalogianni, Elisabeth Klement and Laura Pappa, Taylor Le Melle, María Mazzanti, Rachel 'O Reilly and Octave Rimbert-Rivière.

Take a look at the online publication here: 2022.fellowspublished.rietveldacademie.nl

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Interview Clementine Edwards

Clementine Edwards was one of the nine fellows in the academic year 2021-2022. The interview below is published in the online publication “Fellows Published” that was launched in November 2023.
fellowspublished.rietveldacademie.nl

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Video Symposium Research Fellows 2021/2022

Fellows Exhibit is a Rietveld Sandberg initiative that showcases the findings of nine artist-researchers who completed a fellowships trajectory in the past academic year.