Dr Mark Edwards

Associate Professor in Photography

Phone
+44 (0)1473 338865
Email
m.edwards2@uos.ac.uk
School/Directorate
School of Business, Arts, Social Sciences and Technology
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Dr. Mark Edwards is a renowned practitioner and academic whose work focuses on the exploration of landscape discourse within the contexts of painting and literature traditions in East Anglia. He is known for his photographic work, which has been published and exhibited both nationally and internationally.

Dr. Edwards' contributions to the field of photography have earned him recognition, with his work being included in major photographic collections such as the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), Government Art Collection (including British Embassy, Berlin, The British High Commission, Islamabad & The HM Treasury, Horse Guards Road), The Hyman Collection of British photography, and The Norwich Museum and Art Gallery.

In addition, he has also been actively involved in research and academic pursuits. He has delivered papers on his practice and research at national and international conferences, further contributing to the discourse surrounding his work and he continues to make significant contributions to the field through his artistic practice and research.  His most recent publication is a book chapter in W. G. Sebald’s Artistic Legacies (University of Amsterdam), 2023.

Teaching

Space & Place

Advanced Photographic Techniques

Degree Project (contributor)

Dissertation (contributor)

Professional Practice (contributor)

The primary focus of Marks’ research is the landscape tradition found in the painting and literature made broadly within the geographical and cultural boundaries of East Anglia and Essex.  This inquiry is underpinned by his photographic practice which is included in major photographic collections including the V&A Museum, The Government Art Collection, The Hyman Collection of British Photography and Norwich Museum.  It has been published and exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally with recent exhibitions including Spotlight, Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Norwich (2019-20), Into the Woods:  Photography & Trees, V&A Museum, London and A Green and Pleasant Land, Towner Gallery, Eastbourne (2017-18).  His work is also currently on display at the British Embassy, Berlin, the British High Commission, Islamabad and the Northern Ireland Office, London.

He has presented his research at numerous conferences including, Paul Mellon Centre University for Studies in British Art, Yale University, (Countless Edens, 2020), University of Amsterdam, School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture (W.G. Sebalds’ Artistic Legacies, 2019), The Photographers Gallery, London (Personal Practice, 2019), Tate Britain, London (Constable and the Weather, 2015), V&A Museum, London (John Constable: The Making of a Master, 2014), Sainsbury Centre For Visual Arts, Norwich (Monuments, 2014) and The Holburne Museum, Bath (Landscape & Practice, 2012).

Selected Conference Papers

Landscapes & Vanitas, PhotoEast Festival, University of Suffolk, 2016

Messengers, Constable & the Weather, Tate Britain, 2015

Echoes & Affinities, Tate Aspire Project, Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich, 2015

Landscapes & Vanitas, Hestercombe Gallery, Taunton, 2015

We Bloom Where We Are Planted, Constable Study Day, V&A Museum, London, 2014

Monument, Sainsbury Centre For Visual Arts, Norwich, 2014

Shelter, The Research Colloquium, University Campus Suffolk, Ipswich, 2014

Space & Place, Vizualising the Rural, University of Cumbria, 2013.

Exhibition Catalogues

Double Take: Photography & the Garden, A Hestercombe Gallery, Exhibition, Taunton, 2015

Monument. le musée des beaux arts de Calais, France Exhibition, Calais, 2014

Time & Place. A SCVA & le musée des beaux arts de Calais, France Exhibition, Norwich, 2014

Revealed: The Government Art Collection. Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery Exhibition, London, 2012.

Group Exhibitions (selected)

Inheritance, Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Norwich, 2018.

Into the Woods:  Photography & Trees, V&A Museum, London, 2017-18.

A Green and Pleasant Land, Towner Gallery, Eastbourne, 2017-18.

60 Years On, Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Norwich, 2016

Photo Speaks 2016, Art Space Gallery, SangMyung University, Seoul, Korea, 2016.

John Constable:  Observing the Weather, The Lightbox Gallery, Woking, 2016.

Collecting in East Anglia, Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Norwich, 2016.

Double Take: Photography & the Garden, Hestercombe Gallery, Taunton, 2015.

Monument, SCVA, Norwich  & le musée des beaux arts de Calais, France, 2014.

Places & Landscapes, The Waterfront Gallery, Ipswich, 2014.

Revealed: The Government Art Collection, Ulster Museum, Belfast, 2013.

Island Stories; Fifty Years of Photography in Britain, V&A Museum, London, 2012-13.

Solo Exhibitions (selected)

Art School, Original Projects, Great Yarmouth, 2017.

The View From Here; new landscape photographs by Mark Edwards, Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, 2012.

The View From Here; new landscape photographs by Mark Edwards, The Holburne Museum, Bath, 2011-12.

Work in Public Collections

The V & A Museum, London

The Government Art Collection

Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery

East Contemporary Art

The Hyman Collection of British Photography