Iain Edwards was born in Heswall, Merseyside, in 1962. He studied at Wrexham College of Art, North Wales (1980-81), where he passed the foundation course with distinction and at West Surrey College of Art, Farnham (1981-84,) leaving with a BA Hons First Class degree. His work is influenced by the townscape of London docklands, which being close to his studio…
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Iain Edwards was born in Heswall, Merseyside, in 1962. He studied at Wrexham College of Art, North Wales (1980-81), where he passed the foundation course with distinction and at West Surrey College of Art, Farnham (1981-84,) leaving with a BA Hons First Class degree.
His work is influenced by the townscape of London docklands, which being close to his studio he encounters daily. He addresses the importance of craftsmanship, and structures which are well built and designed. Since none of his works in which he propose the possibilities of movement or containment can fulfill that function, their fantastical elements are revealed. His fascination and obsession with the construction of the wheel is a major feature of his work, made all the more interesting when one learns that his great grandfather having emigrated from Germany in the nineteenth century, established a coach building company in Liverpool - a fact of which Edwards was ignorant until relatively recently.
Iain Edwards has exhibited his work in Germany and France as well as in London and Edinburgh, mostly in group shows, and with a solo exhibition at the Concourse Gallery in Archway, London, in 1989.
Edwards lives and works in London, sharing a studio in Bow with the sculptors Jim Unsworth and Philip Medley.
