Lecturer
School of Arts and Humanities
Mark Edwards joined the photography staff as lecturer in September 2011.
Mark studied for his MA in photography at De Montfort University. After graduating in 1997 he continued to lecture in Contextual Studies at the university. He has since taught on BA programmes at UCS (Great Yarmouth) and has been visiting lecturer at the UEA, Anglia Ruskin University, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, Lincoln University, Norwich University College of the Arts and Southampton Solent University.
Mark’s work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally and has been acquired by such collections as the V & A Museum and The Government Art Collection (including No.10 Downing Street), as well as numerous corporate and private collections.
Recent exhibitions include his solo show at the Holburne Museum Bath; ‘The View From Here: New Landscape photographs by Mark Edwards’. This work was commissioned as a contemporary response to the tradition of British landscape painting and accompanied the museum’s exhibition, ‘Gainsborough’s Landscapes: Themes and Variations’. A full colour catalogue with a commissioned essay accompanied the exhibition.
In 2009, he was one of the ten selected and commissioned international photographers to make a new series of photographs, which explored the theme of identity. The subsequent work formed a large touring exhibition in addition to its accompanying publication which also included an essay by Mark.
Mark was selected in 2008, as one of the overseas photographers, along with Nadav Kander, for a one man exhibition at the Fourth Lianzhou International Photo Festival, Lianzhou, China. His work is featured in the festivals publication, ‘My Camera and I’. In 2007, he was commissioned by the director of the V & A to be one of the 150 artists selected to make a new piece of work for their 150th Anniversary Album. Mark's work has also been exhibited in the V & A’s Photography Gallery.
Other exhibitions include; ‘The Sleep of Reason’ (including Bernd & Hilla Becher, Thomas Struth, Petra Wunderlich & Richard Billingham), ‘These Valued Landscapes’ (Oriel Davis Gallery & Bury St. Edmunds Gallery), ‘Voewood Projects’ (Voewood House, Holt), ‘Forest Dreaming’ (Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural world, Exeter), ‘The World, Abridged’ (Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge) and ‘Tempered Ground’ (Museum of Garden History, London).
