ZANE EDWARDS

Biography

Zane Edwards is a queer multidisciplinary artist living and working on Gadigal and Woiwoung Land. Their work is a typology of thoughts through symbols of the natural world, patterns that show themselves in places disturbed and agitated, and in spaces that are un-touched by something inherently conscious. With clay as a prodominant medium, the push for experimentation with glaze and tactile form excelled into a practice of subconscious mark making through tangible feeling and devotional ritualism.

With other mediums, they use their practices to probe existing memories surrounding place, culture and childhood, and expresses them through explicit and distorted imagery. Edwards’ use of moving image, assemblage, sound and performance allow them to prounce the feeling of longing, love, and second generation immigration.

Artist Statement

‘Summon my guardian’ is an interactive sound based work that consists of one audience member at a time laying their head in a wooden structure underneath a small blanket to listen to two stories told by Edward’s mother. As Edward’s had a close relationship to their mother, the work is an action to hear stories from the luxury of a parent, accompanied by the track ‘Thats why’ By Golden Window house, a song Edwards has performed many spell castings, rituals and rites of passage to in his adult life.